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Title:

Changes in Access to Public Transportation for Cycle-Transit Users in Response to Service Reductions

Accession Number:

01473809

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Transit agencies around the country have made significant investments since the late 1990s to coordinate bicycling and public transit services. The purpose is to increase transit ridership by extending the geographic area from which riders can easily and quickly reach transit stops and stations. While it is widely hypothesized that being able to travel on transit vehicles with bicycles, allows riders to access transit stops and stations from a larger geographic area, the empirical evidence of this is scanty. Information available for Northeast Ohio, where the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) operates rail, bus and demand response transit, presents an opportunity to address an important aspect of this issue. The availability of detailed long-term bicycle-on-bus boardings (BoBBs) data and the implementation of a series of service reductions in 2008, 2009 and 2010 offer an opportunity to ask the question: Do significant changes in geographic access to transit services result in significant changes to the numbers of cycle-transit users accessing GCRTA buses? The evidence from GCRTA’s service area does not support this conclusion, but it does indicate that the rates of utilization of bus bicycle racks is increasing over time, that even in poor weather conditions significant numbers of transit riders travel with their bicycles, and that questions about the conditions, value, and opportunities of cycle-transit coordination remain important for transit users and planners.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP025 Public Transportation Planning and Development.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-4132

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Flamm, Bradley
Sutula, Kay M
Meenar, Mahbubur R

Pagination:

15p

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:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Bicycle racks

Geographic Terms:

Cleveland (Ohio)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-4132

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:48PM