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Reassessing passenger mile data for transit planning and fund allocation.

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  • Creators:
    Chu, Xuehao
  • Corporate Contributors:
    United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Special Programs Administration ; Florida. Dept. of Transportation
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Publication/ Report Number:
    NCTR-576-06, BD549-06
  • Resource Type:
    Research Paper
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States
  • TRIS Online Accession Number:
    1001995
  • OCLC Number:
    60396076
  • Corporate Publisher:
    National Center for Transit Research (U.S.)
  • NTL Classification:
    NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE ; NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Funding ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Transit Planning and Policy
  • Abstract:
    This document provides information on the collection and use of passenger mile (PM) data that may be ; helpful to the transit industry in reconsidering the use of PM data for transit planning and fund allocation. ; Historically the industry seldom uses PM data. This reluctance results largely from five perceptions that the ; industry has had about PM data: 1) determining PM is difficult; 2) determining PM is expensive; 3) PM data ; are unreliable; 4) using PM data in fund allocation favors transit agencies serving longer trips; and 5) PM ; data are not useful beyond reporting them to the National Transit Database. This paper provides evidence ; that determining PM is not as difficult or expensive as perceived and that PM data are more reliable than ; perceived. The paper also shows that using PM data in fund allocation can be neutral to transit agencies ; serving trips of different lengths. Finally, the paper presents examples of how PM has been usefully applied ; in the industry by both non-operating and operating agencies. By taking advantage of new data collection ; technologies and sampling methods, there are opportunities to productively apply PM data in transit planning ; and fund allocation.
  • Format:
    PDF
  • Funding:
    DTRS98-G-0032
  • Download URL:
    https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5527/dot_5527_DS1.pdf
  • File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 292.92 KB]
  • Collection(s):
    University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha256:258982aa0438cce7c9de099108672f9b259e6dd40c6392c01c7d153301d1ec94
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