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When investing to meet market demand, transit agencies look to either build new lines and stations to serve new areas, or construct infill stations along existing lines to fill service gaps. Extending or adding new transit lines requires large investments from the agency and project sponsors, while infill stations often require much smaller investments, as they are built along existing right-of-way and do not increase the total miles of track that need to be maintained. Therefore, transit agencies may choose to add infill stations in underserved areas, if the effects of these investments on the overall system and surrounding stations are positive. The analysis looked at five infill stations on rail transit systems in four major metropolitan areas in the United States and analyzed ridership trends before and after infill stations opened. Understanding that there are many external factors affecting system wide ridership, the analysis of studied stations and systems found that infill stations grow at a faster rate than the rest of the system in the years following their opening, and, when normalized for transit system size, correlated with a boost in the annual growth rate of system ridership in a range of between 1 and 10 basis points, with stations closest to downtown core generally correlating with the greatest gains in system ridership.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP045 Standing Committee on Passenger Intermodal Facilities.

18-05697

English

11p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Metropolitan areas; Rail transit stations; Ridership; Transit riders

United States

Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-05697

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:27AM