Good afternoon, hope you're enjoying lunch, gentle reminder that *no factor has a greater impact on transit ridership than frequency* Let's look at two investigations of ridership generation, both conducted by Fehr & Peers, looking at BART/Caltrain & Sacramento LRT, respectively
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- Double parking = 11% boost in ridership - Double employment w/in 0.25mi = 21% boost - Double population w/in 0.5mi = 30% boost - Double feeder bus frequency = 47% boost I wonder what the employment impact would be for 0.5 mile radius? Regardless, freq once again tops the chart
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Worth mentioning here is that these studies investigated *peak period* frequencies only. Would be interesting to see research which looks at average daily frequency (total trips/span of service), but I suppose that's for another day.
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You can read the summaries here--I deliberately skipped the SLC study because there is no clarification of what is meant by "transit accessibility," which makes it hard to draw a lesson from: http://www.fehrandpeers.com/docs/0805DirectRidershipForecastingWeb.pdf …
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Remember: increasing frequency increases the total POSSIBLE trips that can be made--in a busy system, it follows the principle of induced demand, and encourages many trips that otherwise wouldn't be made! This is freedom for the riders
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