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https://doi.org/10.3141/1666-08

http://scholar.google.com...Weil&publication_year=1999

The U.S. Department of Transportation currently is evaluating national transportation policy on the role the federal government should play to improve access to intercity public transportation services from smaller communities and rural areas. An important first step in this evaluation is to determine the size and location of underserved markets. This question is particularly well suited to the kind of spatial analysis that is possible through geographic information systems (GIS) technology. Presented are the results of a geospatial analysis to identify those places that do not have reasonable access to intercity public transportation services and the potential impact of that lack of access on the people living in those places. By using national level, geospatial databases of intercity public transportation access points and locations of places defined in the 1990 census, the analysis employed GIS to create buffers of specified distances around each access point to find those places located beyond the buffers. A total of 443 places with populations between 2,500 and 50,000 were found to lie beyond a reasonable access distance to any intercity public transportation service. Those places are located predominantly in the rural Midwest, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta and along the Texas-Oklahoma border.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1666, Transit Bus; Rural, Intercity, and Paratransit; New Technology, Capacity, and Quality of Service.

English

p. 65-73

1999

Transportation Research Record

0309070619

Figures (2) ; Tables (5)

Access; Federal government; Geographic information systems; Intercity transportation; Rural areas; Small towns; Transportation policy

Geospatial analysis

Appalachia; Midwestern States; Mississippi River Delta; Texas-Oklahoma Border

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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