Analysis of Transit Quality of Service and Employment Accessibility for the Greater Chicago, Illinois, Region

Minocha, Inshu; Sriraj, Pranee; Metaxatos, Paul; Thakuriah, Piyushimita

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“…The accessibility values used here correspond to the 8am departure time for each census tract. A Chicago-area data resource, the Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) (Thakuriah, 2008), was used to characterize transit service and pedestrian environments around the reported mode choice locations. The SDSS provided a transit availability factor (TAI) (Minocha et al, 2008) and a pedestrian environment factor (PEF) (Cottrill and Thakuriah, 2010).…”

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“…A Chicago-area data resource, the Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) (Thakuriah, 2008), was used to characterize transit service and pedestrian environments around the reported mode choice locations. The SDSS provided a transit availability factor (TAI) (Minocha et al, 2008) and a pedestrian environment factor (PEF) (Cottrill and Thakuriah, 2010). The TAI computes a composite measure of transit availability by combining frequency, hours of service, and service coverage for the regions Bus and Rail systems.…”

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Transit use and the work commute: Analyzing the role of last mile issues

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Journal of Transport Geography

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This paper examines the role that public transport last mile problems play in mode choice decisions of commuters, while controlling for trip, built environment, and decision maker related variables. Last-mile problems arise due to lack of adequate connectivity between transit stops and trip origin or termination points. The paper is motivated by previous literature which has pointed out that high-quality public transit needs to consider end-to-end connectivity from trip origins to destinations. In contrast to previous work on transit last mile problems which has focused on physical distance and sidewalks to transit stops, we consider a wider range of area factors including transit availability, job accessibility, parking costs, the quality of the pedestrian environment and risks to pedestrians from vehicular traffic, and social characteristics such as street-level crime. Using a discrete choice model, our goal is to unpack ways in which such factors contribute to the last mile problem in home-based work trips, while controlling for these wider range of factors as well as the usual variables such as cost and trip time that inform mode choice. We find that the prevalence of non-domestic violent crimes reduces the odds of using all types of non-motorized alternatives as well as transit that is accessed either by walking or driving. Using compensating variation to measure welfare changes, we show that there are significant benefits that could be brought to transit service users Preprint submitted to Journal of Transport Geography June 9, 2016 through increasing safety in the transit access trip. By separately controlling for origin and destination transit accessibility, we show that improved destination accessibility significantly boosts transit use to a greater degree than increases in origin level accessibility. These findings argue for improving accessibility and related job densities at employment centers.

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Transit use and the work commute: Analyzing the role of last mile issues

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Journal of Transport Geography

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“…Reports of this nature generally measure the distribution of transit in relation to either residential or employment distribution. For example Minocha et al (2008) developed a ''Transit Availability Index'' made up of frequency, hours of service and service coverage and compared it to a ''Transit Employment Accessibility Index'' calculated using a gravity model of transit travel times and O-D pairs.…”

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Using Lorenz curves to assess public transport equity

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2011

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“…A number or researchers have focused on the relationship between transit service quality and people's accessibility [11]. Hensher et al [1] identified the fact that transit service quality should be evaluated from the perspective of transit users'.…”

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“…Quality of Calgary transit service: ride comfort (Z 1 ) F1 1 Manners of bus drivers F1 2 Information availability from bus driver F1 3 Safety while riding F1 4 Reliability and flexibility F1 5 Professionalism of fare inspectors in train F1 6 Overall passenger behaviour F1 7 Giving sufficient stop time to board and alight bus/train F1 8 Maintaining arrival schedule at the stop F1 9 Security while riding F1 10 Sufficient parking at park-and-ride locations F1 11 Overall safety of bus and train F1 12 Seat availability while riding train F1 13 Smoothness of riding F1 14 Pleasant experience F1 15 Comfortability of seats F1 16 Inside temperature of bus/train F1 17 Cleanliness of disembarking area of bus/ride Attributes of transit service: reliability and convenience (Z 2 ) F2 1 Helpful and courteous staff F2 2 Schedule delay F2 3 Overall cleanliness F2 4 Not overcrowded F2 5 Service frequency F2 6 Value for money F2 7 Length of travel time F2 8 Route layout F2 9 Convenience of connections and transfers F2 10 Providing customer safety and security F2 11 Providing scheduling and route information F2 12 Convenience of purchasing tickets and passes F2 13 Easy to access vehicles F2 14 The reason for using transit is related to the respondents' perceptions and attitudes towards transit. This hypothesis forms the basis for the investigation presented in this paper.…”

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Model of personal attitudes towards transit service quality

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Islam³

2010

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SUMMARYThis paper presents a critical investigation of reasons for using transit by residents of the City of Calgary, Canada. Reasons for using transit are expressed as functions of people's perceptions and attitudes towards transit service quality and attributes. A multinomial logit model combined with latent variable models is developed to capture unobserved latent variables in defining perceptions and attitudes. Using data from a transit customer satisfaction survey conducted in 2007 by Calgary Transit, this approach models the reasons for choosing transit and tests the significance of two individual specific latent variables: perceptions of 'reliability and convenience' and 'ride comfort'. Many behavioural details are revealed that have important policy implications. Most importantly, it is found that the people of Calgary value 'reliability and convenience' over 'ride comfort'. As for policy implications of the findings, it is clear that improving the connectivity of train service, reducing multimodal transfers, and increasing dedicated right-of-ways for transit would effectively increase transit ridership in Calgary. Copyright Understanding the public's attitudes, perceptions and knowledge in relation to transport measures is important for the formulation and monitoring of transportation policies. Demand for an efficient transit system in any urban area stems from mobility, environmental and energy objectives. Measurements of a transit system's service quality is a challenging research theme and of great importance to the transit service providers and regulatory agencies [1]. The actual performance of a transit system should be considered from the transit users' perspective [2]; and, although there has been demand for analysing transit service quality based on how the users perceive it [3], very few studies truly concentrate on attitudes or psychological factors behind the users' perceptions of transit service quality. Attitude towards transit is an important element influencing people to choose transit in our autooriented North American cities. Attitude, often expressed as perception, is an abstract and psychological term and plays the major role in governing behaviour and defining action [4]. Actions towards transit usage can be traced back to the users' perceptions of the service quality of a transit system. In order to influence peoples' actions in terms of transit over automobile usage, it is germane that we understand the factors influencing formation of attitudes or perceptions towards transit, because people's attitudes are reflected in their travel related actions [5]. This paper follows this principle of investigation in order to identify the factors influencing transit modal share. However, other than focusing on a conventional mode choice model of transit modal share, we have taken a different approach. JOURNAL OF ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION

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Analysis of Transit Quality of Service and Employment Accessibility for the Greater Chicago, Illinois, Region

Cited by 41 publications

References 4 publications

Transit use and the work commute: Analyzing the role of last mile issues

Transit use and the work commute: Analyzing the role of last mile issues

Using Lorenz curves to assess public transport equity

Model of personal attitudes towards transit service quality

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