A Profile of Public Transportation Passenger Demographics and Travel Characteristics Reported in On-Board Surveys

Neff, John; Pham, Larry

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A Profile of Public Transportation Passenger Demographics and Travel Characteristics Reported in On-Board Surveys

2007-05-01
By Neff, John ; Pham, Larry

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English

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Creators:

Neff, John ; Pham, Larry
Corporate Contributors:

American Public Transportation Association
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Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States
OCLC Number:

303581651
Corporate Publisher:

American Public Transportation Association
NTL Classification:

NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Transit Planning and Policy ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Surveys ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Travel Demand
Abstract:

Data from 150 on-board vehicle passenger surveys conducted by public transportation agencies from 2000 through 2005 were compiled. This is the largest ever on-board survey study about the public transportation industry. These surveys summarized the results of questionnaires completed by over 496,000 public transit riders sampled by transit systems that carry 60 percent of all transit trips in the United States. They describe the demographics and travel behavior of public transit trips and the people who take those trips sampled by on-board surveys; they do not describe the average person who may take public transportation. Each time a person takes a transit trip while their system is conducting a survey, that person has a statistical probability of being sampled. The data are therefore implicitly "weighted" by frequency of riding. A person who rides transit more often has a higher likelihood of being sampled, or being sampled more often, than a person who rides fewer times.
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http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Pages/OtherAPTAStatistics.aspx
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https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/6296/dot_6296_DS1.pdf
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[PDF - 267.65 KB]
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US Transportation Collection
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urn:sha256:229b80b51040b7b55b52fdbed3d3614a63c7a056a66398f77bc8731a587e4319

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English

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