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The Impact of Mobility as a Service on Transit Access
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2020-07-01
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Edition:Final, March – July 2020
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Abstract:The emergence of a new mode, Mobility as a Service, has, to date, been most often characterized as the ridehailing mode provided by companies such as Uber and Lyft. If and when these private services evolve to incorporate autonomous vehicles, costs for this service will decrease, making it ever more competitive with other modes, both motorized and non-motorized. A potential future vision of Mobility as a Service in Utah was the topic of a prior UTRAC study, The Impact of Shared Autonomous Vehicles on VMT in Utah (Report No. UT-19.10). That work concluded that the existence of this new mode would lead to a 1-7% increase in trip making and a 4-9% increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled. The application of MaaS as a transit access mode was not addressed in that work. This phase 2 study focuses on MaaS as a transit access mode. This mode is also referred to as microtransit. For this research, it was proposed to use the Wasatch Front Travel Model as the analytical tool to test how attractive MaaS (microtransit) would be to access the fixed guideway rail systems, FrontRunner, and TRAX. The research describes the technical modeling steps required to account for this new transit access mode. Given that the mode share model within the Wasatch Front Travel Demand Model is being refactored in a project jointly supported by UDOT, UTA, and WFRC, this research has concluded by detailing the steps involved so that this work can be carried forward as part of that parallel project.
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