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Audience Measurement for Transit Advertising
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Accession Number:

01444977

Record Type:

Monograph

Abstract:

This report documents a study to develop a transit advertising audience measurement model or methodology and presents a recommended approach for measuring the Opportunity to See advertising displayed on the exteriors of buses and other surface transit vehicles, as well as internal transit advertising displayed inside buses, railcars and transit stations. Fieldwork was conducted in three transit systems: Atlanta’s MARTA, Chicago’s CTA and Portland, Oregon’s TriMet, including tracking of bus exposures to other vehicle occupants, and rider intercept surveys. The report presents a series of methodologies for each component of transit advertising (bus exteriors, bus interiors, railcar interiors, station concourses and station platforms). The described methodologies include equations, sample calculations and sample worksheets. In addition, an eye‐tracking study was conducted on the New York MTA subway and bus system to test two proposed approaches to estimating actual viewership scores. The report also presents a road map for full‐scale implementation of transit advertising audience measurement.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TCRP Project B-39

Language:

English

Authors:

McGillivray, Kelly
Latka, Michael
Field, Evelyn

Pagination:

142p

Publication Date:

2012-4

Serial:

TCRP Web Document

Issue Number: 57
Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Edition:

Contractor Final Report

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Photos; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Public Transportation; Society; I70: Traffic and Transport

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Sep 5 2012 2:51PM