Factors influencing future transit efficiency: Demographic impact on urban guideway transit systems. Report for July 1993-December 1994

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:48203

Shen, L D; Xiong, Y; Lee, Y K

This report identifies and studies the demographic factors. To study demographic trends, data is gathered from the metropolitan areas of Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Greater Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts. The relationship between the guideway transit ridership and demographic characteristics is modeled using both traditional methods including correlation statistics and multiple regression analyses, and nontraditional methods including geographic information systems (GIS) and artificial neural network (ANN). Results obtained from the four selected urban areas reveal that the following demographic characteristics have the high impacts on guideway transit ridership: private vehicle ownership, residential density, population of children, distance to the guideway station, commuters who leave home in the morning peak hour, level of college education, unemployed population and household size. Races and gender are not important factors in most cities.

• Research Organization: National Urban Transit Inst. Consortium, Tampa, FL (United States)
• OSTI ID: 48203
• Report Number(s): PB--95-191755/XAB; NUTI--193FIU1.1; CNN: Contract DTRS93-G-0019
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
DEMOGRAPHY
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
EFFICIENCY
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS