Another look at the question of density and rail transit.
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2011-07-01
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Abstract:Long community discussions about rail often include whether a city’s spatial distribution of
housing, employment and other trip generators is conducive to supporting rail transit. A city’s
decision to construct rail transit is based on an array of variables, some of which may indirectly
relate to density. Other variables considered important are number of new riders, operating costs
and construction costs. Although density is not a direct variable in the list of criteria, numerous
studies show a positive correlation with ridership, confirming density as an explanation for the
number of riders a system will attract. For that reason, opponents of new rail systems often raise
lack of density as reason not to pursue rail. This research compares density in a few select cities
with the accepted transit efficiency performance measure of operating cost per passenger mile to
determine whether this statistic is better in more dense cities.
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