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Title: PUBLIC CHOICE IN TRANSIT ORGANIZATION AND FINANCE: THE STRUCTURE OF SUPPORT
Accession Number: 00771129
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: The nature of support for public transit spending and organizational structure in a heavily automobile-dependent region is explored through structural equation modeling based on survey data from 500 randomly selected households in southeast Michigan. Alternative factors underlying support for transit taxation are tested, including congestion relief, environmental conservation, social service provision, perceived future need, and general attitude toward government spending. The study finds a surprisingly strong endorsement of transit as a necessary social service and concludes that in automobile-dependent areas, transit's primary task when appealing for locally generated financing is to demonstrate its success in serving as the bottom-line guarantor of mobility for the young, elderly, disabled, unemployed, and poor.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1669, Public Transit Planning, Management and Performance, and Marketing and Fare Policy.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Levine, JPark, Su HanWallace, R RUnderwood, S EPagination: p. 87-95
Publication Date: 1999
Serial: ISBN: 030907066X
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Public Transportation; Society
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Oct 11 2000 12:00AM
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