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Efficient transportation for Vermont : optimal statewide transit networks.
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2011-01-01
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Abstract:"Public transit systems are receiving increased attention as viable solutions to problems with
transportation system robustness, energy-efficiency and equity. The over-reliance on a single
mode, the automobile, is a threat to system robustness. Increasingly, policy-makers and
planners are espousing transportation systems with more options where robustness and
equity gains come from the redundancy of alternative modes. For public transit, equity
considerations range from ensuring that the network is fully “connected” (avoiding the “you
can’t get there from here” problem), to providing access to critical destinations (e.g., grocery
stores or health care facilities) for people without cars (Alam, 2009). Energy-efficiency gains
in transit systems result when there are higher vehicle-occupancy rates which lower energy
use per passenger-mile (Davis et al. 2009).
This is one of two reports stemming from a project that sought to improve our understanding
of the ways in which the Vermont statewide transportation system efficiency can be
improved. In this report, we envision a series of “optimal” idealized transit-networks for the
state of Vermont, based on the competing motivations of efficiency and equity, and compare
those idealized networks to the existing one. The main objective is to measure the potential
levels of efficiency and equity, as well as the potential gains that could result from redesigning
the statewide fixed-route bus service. Finally, the location of existing park and
ride facilities are considered relative to the existing and idealized transit networks."
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