The work done by F&P was for the purpose of creating a Direct Ridership Model to forecast future ridership--I remain skeptical of projections, however, the process of creating the model involved explaining which factors are most responsible for *current* ridership variation
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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