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Title: USING GIS TO IDENTIFY MARKETS FOR TRANSIT IN DELAWARE
Accession Number: 00760758
Record Type: Component
Availability: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) 444 North Capitol Street, NW Abstract: Traffic congestion is gradually increasing in New Castle County, Delaware. There is growing population and travel demand, and less opportunity to accommodate increased travel by building new roads or expanding existing ones. The Delaware Department of Transportation (DELDOT), with local and regional planning agencies, has begun to examine and initiate a number of strategies to maintain the current level of service. One such a strategy is to increase the number of transit trips by improving transit service and by better marketing. Research was sponsored by the Delaware Transportation Institute to better understand travel demand and to identify opportunities for transit in New Castle County. A premise at the base of the research was that travel time is to many people an insurmountable modal barrier to using the current transit system. Particular focus was placed on investigating opportunities for express service. Door-to-door travel time was considered when evaluating potential new transit routes. This paper briefly describes activities with emphasis on those involving the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and how it was used in the research to support the following objectives; understand and present traffic patterns to investigate markets for transit; examine current transit service relative to estimated travel markets; develop an information system that could quantify the access time of suburban populations to entry points in the transit system for various modes; address travel demand at the tax parcel level or housing unit level and better describe travel demand distributions; estimate the short haul time necessary to reach populations in a local area; and acquire a better understanding of the potential and limitations of transit systems in New Castle County.
Supplemental Notes: Additional sponsorship provided by the Highway Engineering Exchange Program, the National Association of Regional Councils, and the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) 444 North Capitol Street, NW Federal Highway Administration 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Racca, D PEditors: Ormesher, DPagination: p. 270-291
Publication Date: 1998-8
Conference:
Integrating the Transportation Business Using GIS. Proceedings of the 1998 Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T) Symposium
Location:
Salt Lake City, Utah Features: Figures
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; References; Tables
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure
Files: TRIS, TRB, USDOT
Created Date: Mar 8 1999 12:00AM
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