Transit Rider/Travel Behavior Inventory Survey - Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro - 2010

Team, TSDC

doi:10.15483/1961637

Title: Transit Rider/Travel Behavior Inventory Survey - Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro - 2010

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The Metropolitan Council administered a system-wide transit on-board survey between September and November 2010 as part of the 2010 Travel Behavior Inventory to provide detailed transit usage patterns and rider information to support modeling and planning efforts. The study’s focus was to capture only the most current and reliable data necessary to determine future public transportation needs in the Minneapolis region. The study was structured to collect detailed transit ridership data for different routes during different times of day to develop a disaggregate transit trip table that will support advanced travel demand modeling. The study was designed to leverage existing data sources, such as the 2005 on-board survey, to provide the best quality data to update the Travel Behavior Inventory in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area.

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Team, TSDC

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Publication Date:: Thu Dec 11 23:00:00 EST 2025

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Idaho National Laboratory

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)

Subject:: 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; accessibility; attitudes and preferences; equity; first/last mile; public transit; transit survey; travel behavior

OSTI Identifier:: 1961637

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15483/1961637

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  abstractNote = {The Metropolitan Council administered a system-wide transit on-board survey between September and November 2010 as part of the 2010 Travel Behavior Inventory to provide detailed transit usage patterns and rider information to support modeling and planning efforts. The study’s focus was to capture only the most current and reliable data necessary to determine future public transportation needs in the Minneapolis region. The study was structured to collect detailed transit ridership data for different routes during different times of day to develop a disaggregate transit trip table that will support advanced travel demand modeling. The study was designed to leverage existing data sources, such as the 2005 on-board survey, to provide the best quality data to update the Travel Behavior Inventory in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area.},

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