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https://doi.org/10.3141/1666-07

http://scholar.google.com...ardt&publication_year=1999

Great economic benefits are attributed to transit systems serving large urban areas, such as providing mobility, reducing costs associated with automobile use (congestion and air pollution), encouraging greater economic growth in areas served, and increasing the nation's overall economic productivity. Like the larger urban public transit systems, rural public transit systems have real benefits for the communities they serve. Unlike those of their larger counterparts, the contributions that rural transit systems have made to the economic health and well-being of the communities they serve have gone largely unrecognized. A new report measures for the first time the economic benefits of rural transit operations. The report develops benefit estimates from 22 case studies of rural transit systems and from national transportation and economic data. Large economic benefits were found, demonstrating that public transportation is a good investment for rural communities.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1666, Transit Bus; Rural, Intercity, and Paratransit; New Technology, Capacity, and Quality of Service.

English

p. 55-64

1999

Transportation Research Record

0309070619

References (15) ; Tables (4)

Case studies; Economic benefits; Economic impacts; Rural transit

Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Oct 5 1999 12:00AM

• ACCESS TO INTERCITY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FROM SMALL COMMUNITIES: GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS
• ASSESSING MEANS OF TRANSIT INFORMATION DELIVERY FOR ADVANCED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
• AUTOMATED BUS DISPATCHING, OPERATIONS CONTROL, AND SERVICE RELIABILITY: BASELINE ANALYSIS
• BUS STOP DESIGN AND AUTOMATED GUIDANCE FOR LOW-FLOOR BUSES: EVALUATION OF PROTOTYPES WITH INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN FACTORS
• CARSHARING AND PARTNERSHIP MANAGEMENT: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
• COMPONENTS OF TRAVEL TIME ON THE GLENDALE BEELINE BUS NETWORK
• EVALUATION RESULTS OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA STATION-CAR DEMONSTRATION
• EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF REAL-TIME BUS ARRIVAL TIME PREDICTION WITH GPS DATA
• IMPLEMENTATION OF A TIMED TRANSFER NETWORK AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
• IMPROVING PARATRANSIT SCHEDULING BY ACCOUNTING FOR DYNAMIC AND STOCHASTIC VARIATIONS IN TRAVEL TIME
• MODEL TO MINIMIZE NONREVENUE COSTS IN BUS TRANSIT OPERATIONS
• PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED VEHICLE LOCATOR AND DIGITAL MAP ACCURACY IN TRANSIT APPLICATION
• PRAXITELE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE SAINT-QUENTIN STATION-CAR EXPERIMENT
• REGIONAL COMMUTER BUSES AND THEIR POTENTIAL APPLICABILITY IN CONNECTICUT
• WHO NOTICED, WHO CARES? PASSENGER REACTIONS TO TRANSIT SAFETY MEASURES