Forecasting paratransit services demand : review and recommendations.

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• Creators:
  Goodwill, Jay A. ; Joslin, Ann
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Transit Research (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Paratransit services
  • Travel demand
  • Traffic forecasting
  • Transportation disadvantaged persons
  • Methodology
• Publication/ Report Number:
  BDK85 977-34
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation ; Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Paratransit ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Travel Demand
• Abstract:
  Travel demand forecasting tools for Florida’s paratransit services are outdated, utilizing old national trip ; generation rate generalities and simple linear regression models. In its guidance for the development of ; mandated Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plans (TDSP), the Florida Commission for the Transportation ; Disadvantaged (CTD) refers transit planners to the May 1993 “Methodology Guidelines for Forecasting TD ; Transportation Demand at the County Level” to develop forecasts of transportation disadvantaged ; populations. ; This report examines the current demand forecasting procedure, examines samples of other forecasting ; methods, and details critical factors that should be considered in addressing the development of a new ; paratransit demand forecasting model. ; The report concludes with the development of an updated paratransit service demand model and details ; its application. A dynamic model spreadsheet was developed which requires relatively simple and minimal ; data inputs by the end user.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25954/dot_25954_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.29 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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