An Analysis of the Impacts of the Fixed-Route Transit in Florida

As part of its effort in developing Transit 2020: Florida’s Strategic Plan for Public Transportation in 1998, the Department in 1997 asked the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) to undertake an analysis of the economic contributions that fixed-route transit made to the state. While recognizing potential impacts on other areas, that analysis quantified four types of economic impacts: benefits to transit users, benefits to highway users, savings to transportation disadvantaged programs, and increased earnings from new federal grants. CUTR developed different methods for these impact types and applied these methods to data that reflect 1995 conditions of urban fixed-route transit in Florida. The result is the 1997 report titled An Analysis of the Economic Impacts of Urban Transit Systems on Florida’s Economy.

• Record URL:
  http://www.nctr.usf.edu/projects/Year%2010/71327.html

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $125303.00
• Contract Numbers:

  71327

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  605 Suwannee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Project Managers:

  Quigley, Diane

• Performing Organizations:

  University of South Florida, Tampa

  Center for Urban Transportation Research
  3650 Spectrum Boulevard
  Tampa, FL  United States  33612-9446
• Principal Investigators:

  Chu, Xuehao

• Start Date: 20091200
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20101200
• Source Data: RiP Project 25143

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Fixed routes; Public transit; Research projects; Ridership; Strategic planning; Urban transit
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01461710
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University of South Florida, Tampa
• Contract Numbers: 71327
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 1:50PM