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https://doi.org/10.3141/1604-02

http://scholar.google.com...imek&publication_year=1997

Public transit systems in Toronto and Boston, two North American cities of similar size and income, are compared. Although Boston has a reputation as a transit-oriented city, there are about twice as many public transit trips in Toronto. Transit service in Toronto runs, on average, twice as frequently as service in Boston on a network of similar size. This level of service can be supported in part because population density does not decrease as much with increasing distance from the center of the city and because employment is more centralized. The transit system in Boston is constrained from emulating the Toronto transit system not only by a less transit-favorable distribution of population and employment but also by operating costs that are twice as high. The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's higher costs are the result of more fringe benefits for employees and disproportionately more managers and fixed facilities.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1604, Public Transit 1997: Planning, Management, Marketing, and New Technology.

English

p. 9-17

1997

Transportation Research Record

0309062071

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Alternatives analysis; Employee benefits; Employment; Facilities; Management; Operating costs; Population density; Public transit; Schedules; Workforce

Service frequency

Boston (Massachusetts); Toronto (Canada)

Boston (Massachusetts); Toronto (Canada)

Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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