Effects of BART on work journeys in the Bay Area. [Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)]

Conference · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978 · Transp. Eng. J.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6736955

Sherret, A ^[1]; Markowitz, J

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1. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., San Francisco, CA

An analysis is given of work journey patterns in the Bay Area before and since the 71-mile BART began service, and assesses BART-provided improvements in transit accessibility to employment centers. Current journey-to-work BART ridership is analyzed as a share of the total journey-to-work travel market, both areawide and in the key transbay commute corridor between San Francisco and Oakland. BART now serves 135,000 one-way trips each weekday, two-thirds of these to and from work. BART's share of area-wide work trips is only about 5%, and since half of BART's ridership has come from bus, the impact on the overall automobile/transit modal split has been small. However, BART has been more successful in the travel market it was primarily designed to serve: long-distance commute trips from the suburbs to the central cities. BART carries 27% of all work trips from residences in the BART service area taking 35 min or more.

• OSTI ID: 6736955
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transp. Eng. J.; (United States) Journal Volume: 104:TE4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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