Reassessing passenger mile data for transit planning and fund allocation.

Details

• Creators:
  Chu, Xuehao
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Special Programs Administration ; Florida. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Passenger miles
  • Databases
  • Transportation planning
  • Cost allocation
• 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
• Description:
  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:
  [PDF - 292.92 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:258982aa0438cce7c9de099108672f9b259e6dd40c6392c01c7d153301d1ec94