United States Department of Transportation
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Abstract:Over the past several years, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) has supported the development of several new rail transit systems. As these projects represent significant investments of both Federal and local resources, UMTA has sponsored a number of Transit Impact Studies designed to evaluate the effects of these systems. The goals of the studies are to assess the changes in travel behavior which result from such a major change in an area's transportation system and to develop information which will aid in future investment decisions. These studies have been underway for some time now. It is thus appropriate to determine what initial findings have been obtained and to summarize these in a convenient form. For this purpose UMTA requested that the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) sponsor an informal two-day conference on the Transit Impact Studies. This conference was held in Washington on September 24 and 25, 1981, and was attended by representatives of studies underway in Washington, Atlanta, and San Diego as well as by a number of local and Federal officials, including some who were involved in a similar study in San Francisco. UMTA staff now involved in managing the Impact Study Program also attended. This report presents a summary of that conference. Included are the presentations made by representatives of each study as well as some of the discussion which followed. This summary will serve as a good working reference on the current findings of these studies and as a source for some tentative generalizations about the impacts of rail transit.
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