Download or read book Complement Or Substitute An Analysis of Bikeshare s Effect on Transit Ridership in Portland written by Anthony G. De Simone and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free-floating bikeshare is a relatively new service in North America but offers significant mobility benefits and intriguing potential for first- and last-mile access to transit. This study of Portland's Biketown system will explore whether the introduction of bikeshare has a complementary effect for transit ridership, that is: does presence or usage of bikeshare lead to an increase in transit use? Additionally, because Biketown has both docked and free-floating bikes available, this study will examine whether the introduction of free-floating bikeshare leads to higher increases in transit ridership than traditional docked bikeshare. Because the system has gone through a variety of changes to its home area and operating rules, this study completes a longitudinal study of TriMet transit ridership in areas where service has expanded or docking rules have been changed. This study is unique; although many previous studies have explored the usage of bicycles or bikeshare for first- and last-mile transit access, few studies have considered free-floating bikeshare's relationship to transit.
Download or read book Do the First and Last Mile Matter Examining the Complementary and Substitution Effects of Bike Sharing Platforms on Public Transit written by Ecem Basak and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priori relationship between the entry of bike-sharing platforms and public transit demand is not straightforward and is still open to debate. In this study, we empirically examine the complementary and substitution effects of bike-sharing platforms' entry on public transit, with a particular interest in city bus systems. We exploit a natural experiment using a fixed-effects econometric formulation of the difference-in-differences framework to empirically estimate the effect of bike-sharing platforms' entry on city bus systems. We employ a panel dataset that comprises 64 cities in the United States spanning 96 months from January 2012 through December 2019. Our findings reveal that the entry of bike-sharing platforms decreases the demand for the city bus by 2.7% on average across cities, suggesting that bike-sharing platforms substitute city bus ridership. These results also indicate that the first- and last-mile complementary effect of bike-sharing platforms is not very strong for city bus services. We also conduct extensive analyses to confirm the robustness of the main results. Then, we examine the impact of the bike-sharing platforms on the demand for city bus changes depending on heterogenous factors such as bike-friendliness, pedestrian-friendliness, transit-friendliness, population, language spoken, working-at-home, and transit fares. We find that bike-friendliness, pedestrian-friendliness, transit-friendliness, and population moderate the relationship between bike-sharing platform entry and city bus usage, whereas we do not observe any moderation effects of the language spoken, working-at-home, and transit fares. We also repeat our analysis for heavy rail and light rail systems. Our findings provide guidance to bike-sharing platform owners, public transport operators, and policymakers in cities.
Download or read book Analysis of Ridership Trends and Success Factors for Bikesharing Systems in the United States written by Ava Yaghoobirad and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to analyze the bikesharing trends in the U.S. and identify the main ridership determinants that were relevant for their success and performance in large and small cities. The study examined the effect of demographic, socio-economic, transportation network, built environment, and climate factors on ridership by conducting a regression analysis at the station level in the cities of Boston and Chattanooga. Furthermore, the study analyzed the overall system efficiency and popularity index of nine bikesharing systems at the city level. The system characteristic data were collected through an electronic survey and email communication with 21 current programs in the U.S. and the most current data from the International Bikeshare Database and also the programs annual or quarterly reports. Variables related to population demographics, socioeconomic, and transportation network were collected from 2010-2014 American Community Survey 5-year estimates at the census bock level. The data were aggregated around a 500-meter buffer encircling each bikeshare station using GIS software. The result showed the number of alternative commuters, number of colleges or universities, length of existing bikeways, number of residents with graduate degree or higher and the household income could positively affect the ridership, and adversely the non-white population had a slightly negative impact on ridership. Moreover, the study found the integration of public transit with bikeshare is an essential factor for success in larger cities with a more developed transit network. In small cities with less dense downtowns and fewer public transit options, visitor and tourist bicyclists could contribute to improve the system overall ridership. Furthermore, the bicycle infrastructure seems to be a key determinant of ridership in all sizes and types of jurisdictions.
Download or read book Exploring the Impact of Shared Mobility written by Eric Barber and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis looks at the effects of new mobility services on emissions, via travel behavior and vehicle design improvements. Using NHTS data we find that right sizing allowed by shared mobility services would significantly affect CAFE compliance because most fuel standards would be met by moving people into more fuel efficient vehicles and thus increasing the number of these sold by companies. We then found that right sizing has the ability to reduce fuel consumption by more than 40% depending on the car replacement scenario. These reductions can make additional improvements by incorporating bikeshare within the shared mobility service. To further understand the possible effects of bikeshare, we then focus our research in the Chicago area, where we find that bikeshare has a net positive impact on transit ridership, and that this effect increases as more time passes. We then looked at Portland’s Biketown to understand the effect of transit on bikeshare, but results were inconclusive. Overall we find that mobility services will likely reduce fuel use, and increasing bikeshare use can be used to grow this reduction, while also increasing the use of transit.
Download or read book The Case Control Study Consensus and Controversy written by Michel A. Ibrahim and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case-Control Study: Consensus and Controversy focuses on the history and the evolution of the case-control study, addresses the methodological issues discussed in this book, and presents illustrative studies to examine the problems and opportunities inherent in the method. This text first discusses the progress and evolution of case-control studies. This book then explains methodologic problems and standards in case-control research, which is followed by a discussion on bias in analytic research. Before this book gives the highlights of the conference it documents, it first tackles the confidence intervals for the odds ratio in case-control studies; case-control studies on the effect of sex steroids on women and their offspring; and methodologic variation in case-control studies of reserpine and breast cancer. This text also looks into the questions frequently asked regarding case-control studies, such as on the selection of appropriate controls, publication of research findings, and type of research needs to be done on case-control studies to improve them. This book concludes by explaining the development of standards for case control studies, as well as other problems and prospect regarding this study. This publication will be invaluable to those interested in case-control studies.
Download or read book Implementation and Outcomes of Fare free Transit Systems written by Joel Volinski and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2012 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this synthesis was to document the past and current experiences of public transit agencies that have planned, implemented, and operated fare-free transit systems. The report concentrates on public transit agencies that are either direct recipients or sub-recipients of federal transit grants and provide fare-free service to everyone in their service area on every mode they provide. The report will be of interest to transit managers and staffs, small urban and rural areas, university, and resort communities, as well as stakeholders and policy makers at all levels who would be interested in knowing the social benefits and macro impacts of providing affordable mobility through fare-free public transit. A review of the relevant literature was conducted for this effort. Reports provide statistics on changes in levels of ridership associated with fare-free service. White papers or agency reports identified by the topic panel or discovered through interviews with fare-free transit managers were also reviewed. Through topic panel input, Internet searches, listserv communications, and APTA and TRB sources, the first comprehensive listing of public transit agencies that provide fare-free service in the United States was identified. A selected survey of these identified public transit agencies yielded an 82% response rate (32/39). The report offers a look at policy and administrative issues through survey responses. Five case studies, achieved through interviews, represent the three types of communities that were found to be most likely to adopt a fare-free policy: rural and small urban, university dominated, and resort communities.
Download or read book Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media written by Susan Bregman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely updates, increased citizen engagement, and more effective marketing are just a few of the reasons transportation agencies have already started to adopt social media networking tools. Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media offers real-world advice for planning and implementing social media from leading government practit
Download or read book Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis written by Simon P. Washington and published by Chapman and Hall/CRC. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the field of transportation moves toward the "total quality management" paradigm, performance-based outcomes and quantitative measures have become increasingly important. Measuring performance in the field depends heavily on modeling trends and data, which in turn requires powerful, and flexible analytical tools. To date, however, transportation professionals have lacked a unified, rigorous guide to modeling the wide range of problems they encounter in the field. Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data describes the techniques most useful for modeling the many complex aspects of transportation, such as travel demand, safety, emissions, and the environment. Taking care not to overwhelm readers with statistical theory, the authors clearly and concisely present the relevant analytical methods in quantitative chapters built on transportation case studies. Mastering this material enables readers to: Formulate research hypotheses Identify appropriate statistical and econometric models Avoid common pitfalls and misapplications of statistical methods Interpret model results correctly Ideal as both a textbook and reference, this book makes three unique contributions to transportation practice and education. First, it presents a host of analytical techniques-both common and sophisticated-used to model transportation phenomena. Second, it provides a wealth of examples and case studies, and third, it specifically targets present and future transportation professionals. It builds the foundation they need not only to apply analytical models but also to understand and interpret results published elsewhere.
Download or read book Disrupting Mobility written by Gereon Meyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility. Written by government experts, social scientists, technologists and city planners from North America, Europe and Australia, the papers in this book address the impacts of demographic, societal and economic trends and the fundamental changes arising from the increasing automation and connectivity of vehicles, smart communication technologies, multimodal transit services, and urban design. The book is based on the Disrupting Mobility Summit held in Cambridge, MA (USA) in November 2015, organized by the City Science Initiative at MIT Media Lab, the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, the LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Politics and the Innovation Center for Mobility and Societal Change in Berlin.
Download or read book Bicycling for Transportation written by Melissa Bopp and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicycling for Transportation examines the individual and societal factors of active transportation and biking behavior. The book uses an Interdisciplinary approach to provide a comprehensive overview of bicycling for transportation research. It examines the variability in biking participation among different demographic groups and the multiple levels of influence on biking to better inform researchers and practitioners on the effective use of community resources, programming and policymaking. It is an ideal resource for public health professionals trying to encourage physical activity through biking. In addition, it makes the case for new infrastructure that supports these initiatives. - Provides evidence-based insights on cost-effective interventions for improving biking participation - Includes numerous case studies and best practices that highlight multi-level approaches in a variety of settings - Explores individual and social factors related to biking behavior, such as race, gender and self-efficacy
Download or read book NACTO Bike Share Station Siting Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cities work to address decades-long issues of equity in street design (low-income people in particular, have a disproportionate risk of death or injury caused by traffic crashes), effective bike share station placement and planning can help close the gap by increasing pedestrian visibility at intersections, providing pedestrian refuge areas, protecting bike lanes, and extending the reach of transit.NACTO's Bike Share Siting Guide can help cities bolster public transit usage, increase cycling, and increase the safety of city streets through holistic bike share station design and placement.
Download or read book Transportation Planning Handbook written by ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary approach to transportation planning fundamentals The Transportation Planning Handbook is a comprehensive, practice-oriented reference that presents the fundamental concepts of transportation planning alongside proven techniques. This new fourth edition is more strongly focused on serving the needs of all users, the role of safety in the planning process, and transportation planning in the context of societal concerns, including the development of more sustainable transportation solutions. The content structure has been redesigned with a new format that promotes a more functionally driven multimodal approach to planning, design, and implementation, including guidance toward the latest tools and technology. The material has been updated to reflect the latest changes to major transportation resources such as the HCM, MUTCD, HSM, and more, including the most current ADA accessibility regulations. Transportation planning has historically followed the rational planning model of defining objectives, identifying problems, generating and evaluating alternatives, and developing plans. Planners are increasingly expected to adopt a more multi-disciplinary approach, especially in light of the rising importance of sustainability and environmental concerns. This book presents the fundamentals of transportation planning in a multidisciplinary context, giving readers a practical reference for day-to-day answers. Serve the needs of all users Incorporate safety into the planning process Examine the latest transportation planning software packages Get up to date on the latest standards, recommendations, and codes Developed by The Institute of Transportation Engineers, this book is the culmination of over seventy years of transportation planning solutions, fully updated to reflect the needs of a changing society. For a comprehensive guide with practical answers, The Transportation Planning Handbook is an essential reference.
Download or read book Urban Street Design Guide written by National Association of City Transportation Officials and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird’s eye view to granular details. Case studies from around the country clearly show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city’s unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: • Streets are public spaces. Streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic. • Great streets are great for business. Well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners. • Design for safety. Traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, bicycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely. • Streets can be changed. Transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street. Many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. • Act now! Implement projects quickly using temporary materials to help inform public decision making. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.
Download or read book Car sharing written by Adam Millard-Ball and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transport and Climate Change written by Tim Ryley and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This topical volume covers the intersection between transport and climate change, with papers from the 'Transport & Climate Change' session of the RGS-IBG conference in London, September 2010. It considers the role of transport modes at varying spatial dimensions and a range of perspectives on the relationship between transport and climate change.
Download or read book Bicycle Urbanism written by Rachel Berney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. Much of the discussion surrounding cycling has focused on bicycle facility design—how to best repurpose road infrastructure to accommodate bicycling. While part of the discussion has touched on culture, such as how to make bicycling a larger part of daily life, city design and planning have been sorely missing from consideration. Whilst interdisciplinary in its scope, this book takes a primarily planning approach to examining active transportation, and especially bicycling, in urban areas. The volume examines the land use aspects of the city—not just the streetscape. Illustrated using a range of case studies from the USA, Canada, and Australia, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of key topics of concern around cycling in the city including: imagining the future of bicycle-friendly cities; integrating bicycling into urban planning and design; the effects of bike use on health and environment; policies for developing bicycle infrastructure and programs; best practices in bicycle facility design and implementation; advances in technology, and economic contributions.
Download or read book Designing Streets for Kids written by National Association of City Transportation Officials and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of their Global Street Design Guide, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)-Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) Streets for Kids program has developed child-focused design guidance to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and empower communities around the world to consider their city from the eyes of a child. The guidance in Designing Streets for Kids captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that cities around the world have used to design streets and public spaces that are safe and appealing to children from their earliest days. The guidance also highlights tactics for engaging children in the design process, an often-overlooked approach that can dramatically transform how streets are designed and used.
