Investigating the Determining Factors for Transit Travel Demand by Bus Mode in Us Metropolitan Statistical Areas

Alam, Bhuiyan; Nixon, Hilary; Zhang, Qiong; Mineta Transportation Institute

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Investigating the Determining Factors for Transit Travel Demand by Bus Mode in Us Metropolitan Statistical Areas

2015-05-01
By Alam, Bhuiyan ; Nixon, Hilary ; Zhang, Qiong

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Alam, Bhuiyan ; Nixon, Hilary ; Zhang, Qiong

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Mineta Transportation Institute
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United States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology ; California. Dept. of Transportation. Division of Research and Innovation

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Bus Transit Costs Fares Headways Metropolitan Areas Motor Fuels Multiple Regression Analysis Research Hub Ridership Schedules Transit Operating Agencies Travel Demand
Publication/ Report Number:

CA-MTI-14-1101 ; MTI Report 12-30

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Tech Report
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United States
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Mineta Transportation Institute
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Proper understanding of the nature of the transit travel demand is at the heart of transportation policy making and the success of transit systems. Unfortunately, most of the existing studies have focused on a single or few transit systems or metropolitan areas to analyze the determinants of transit travel demand. This study is an attempt to investigate the determining factors for transit travel demand by bus mode in the United States at Metropolitan Statistical Areas in 2010. The multiple regression results indicate that seven internal factors, which the transit managers and operators have control over, and only one external variable, namely gas price, show to have significant impacts on transit travel demand by bus mode. Transit supply, transit fare, average headway, transit coverage, service intensity, revenue hours, and safety are the contributing internal factors for transit demand by bus. This indicates that the mechanisms to increase the transit ridership patronage are in the hands of the transit authorities, which further indicates that they do not need to depend on outside world to attract more ridership but can do so by adjusting the influential internal factors that are under their control.
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University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
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