Empirical Models of Transit Service Areas

Lutin, Jerome M; Liotine, Matthew; Ash, Thomas

doi:10.1061/tpejan.0000936

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“…Lutin explored the concept of the transit service area, noting that access distance and travel time were the critical, defining parameters (23). He also noted that the service area must be defined according to multiple modes, including walking, park-and-ride, kiss-and-ride, paratransit feeders, transit feeders, taxis, and bicycles.…”

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Transforming a Bus Station into a Transit-Oriented Development

Cottrell

2007

Transportation Research Record

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While most transit-oriented development (TOD) is oriented toward rail, bus stations can also serve as centers of TODs. The El Monte, California, bus station (EMBS), around which a transit village has been proposed, is examined. The village would have little impact on the surrounding community, though, without improvements in access to the EMBS. With a 1-km ring as the potential sphere of influence, theoretically no one can walk, bicycle, or ride a shuttle bus to the station, given impedances such as major street crossings and lengthy feeder shuttle headways. With construction of two pedestrian bridges and signing and lighting improvements along an adjacent bicycle path, the number of residents in the SOI would rise to potentially 40,800, with two-thirds of them within a 5-km bicycle ride of the EMBS. The proposed improvements might cost about $5 million. To connect the EMBS to a business park and Metrolink rail station located just outside the ring, an automated people mover (APM) is proposed. The APM would serve the roughly 5,000 employees of the business park, and it would facilitate transfers between the EMBS, Metrolink, and the proposed Silver Line (light rail to terminate at the Metrolink station). The APM would cost more than $30 million, but it could enhance transit use, local development, and real estate values. For areas within the ring not affected by the improvements, shuttle bus services need reorientation. The importance of pedestrian connectivity is emphasized, as are the cost-effectiveness of bicycling improvements, ideal setting for an APM, need for streamlined shuttle bus service, and importance of multiple access modes.

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Transforming a Bus Station into a Transit-Oriented Development

Cottrell

2007

Transportation Research Record

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“…Strong evidence exists, both in the literature and in practice, that rail transit ridership has important relationships with mode-ofaccess characteristics. Earlier studies consistently reported that the ease or difficulty of access and egress, walking time, and station proximity were among the most important five level-of-service variables (7)(8)(9)(10)(11).…”

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Heuristic Analysis of Impacts of Commuter Rail Station Consolidation on Pedestrian Access

Ayvalik

Khisty

2002

Transportation Research Record

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A mode-of-station-access survey at the Milwaukee District North Line Grayland and Mayfair Stations in Chicago is described. The study was conducted to determine the impacts of consolidating these two stations into a single new station. Patterns of different station access modes were studied. The analysis focused on the most sensitive market segment—walkers. Two different methods were used to determine how current walkers would be affected by such a station change. The first estimate was based on changes in walking distances. A heuristic procedure was developed to estimate the number of walkers currently using the system who would possibly walk to the proposed new station. This estimate assumed that stations would attract walkers from a circular area referred to as the catchment area. The average walking distance to each station determined its catchment area size. Further assumptions were made to predict those walkers who were not currently in the catchment areas but who would decide to walk to the new station. This study provides intuitive results and methodology that show promise for use in similar situations.

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Access mode choice behaviors of water transportation: a case of Bangkok

Park¹,

Lee²,

Kim³

et al. 2010

J of Advced Transportation

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SUMMARYThis research attempted to analyze the impacts of the enhancement of access modes to the main water transportation mode in Bangkok, Thailand. In order to achieve this purpose, access mode choice behaviors are modeled using the probability distribution function (PDF) model, the multinomial logit (MNL) model, and the nested logit (NL) model. The study also attempted to analyze the catchment areas for different access modes and the factors affecting them. Factors affecting the extent of the catchment area such as main haul distance were evaluated. Based on survey results, service attributes such as access cost, in-vehicle travel time, and out-of-vehicle travel time (OVTT) were found to have a significant impact on access mode choice behavior. Socioeconomic factors such as age, gender, income, and occupation were found to affect access mode choice behavior as well. Apart from these factors, trip departure time, egress mode used, and main haul distance were also found to affect access mode choice behavior. It was evaluated that the NL model is most suitable to model access mode choice behavior. A selected NL model was applied in order to predict the impacts of adopting different policies. It was found that reducing in-vehicle travel time, waiting time and/or cost of the bus ride gave most significant impact on the enhancement of access modes. As results of this study, various methods have been suggested to enhance the access/egress service of the water transportation.

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Empirical Models of Transit Service Areas

Cited by 7 publications

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Transforming a Bus Station into a Transit-Oriented Development

Transforming a Bus Station into a Transit-Oriented Development

Heuristic Analysis of Impacts of Commuter Rail Station Consolidation on Pedestrian Access

Access mode choice behaviors of water transportation: a case of Bangkok

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