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Joint Impacts of Bus Rapid Transit and Urban Form on Vehicle Ownership Among Low Income Households: New Evidence from a Quasi-longitudinal Analysis in Bogota, Colombia
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Accession Number:

01475328

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has become popular as a means to provide reliable, non-automobile-based mobility and alleviate the impacts of rising traffic congestion in cities around the world. To date, however, there is little empirical evidence supporting BRT’s potential to meet these objectives, particularly for lower income households. Furthermore, there is limited knowledge regarding the urban form conditions necessary to support BRT. This research improves the understanding of BRT’s potential as an alternative to vehicle ownership for lower income households and provides new evidence on the role of urban form in supporting transit investment. The authors use a difference-in-differences research design to examine the change in vehicle ownership from before to after implementation of Bogotá, Colombia’s TransMilenio BRT system. Results indicate access to TransMilenio’s main trunk system is not significantly related to the odds of vehicle ownership for lower income households except in neighborhoods with urban forms that are supportive of walking, bicycling, and transit use. Furthermore, the authors find access to TransMilenio’s feeder system is associated with an unexpected increase in the odds of vehicle ownership; however, that increase is overcome by supportive urban form. This research contributes to the debate about the transportation-urban form connection by demonstrating that urban form and transit access have a synergistic effect on vehicle ownership. Neglecting this synergy may lead to inconsistent or misleading results. The findings also suggest that the benefits of BRT investment may not accrue to lower income households unless that investment is coordinated with policies to promote supportive urban form.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD30 Transportation and Land Development.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-1550

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Combs, Tabitha S
Rodriguez, Daniel A

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Bogota (Colombia)

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-1550

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:23PM