Effects of Automated Transit and Pedestrian/Bicycling Facilities on Urban Travel Patterns

The purpose of this Exploratory Advanced Research project is to assess the potential of transformative improvements in neighborhood-serving transit and pedestrian and cycling facilities to shift neighborhood trips and transit access trips from the automobile to other modes. The neighborhood serving transit concepts will include an automated community transit system. To ensure that the modeled changes are of sufficient magnitude to shift modal choice significantly; transportation and land-use attributes of a city rich in pedestrian, transit, and cycling opportunities will be used as a basis for future scenarios. The analysis will be conducted with specialized agent-based and activity-based transportation models, and enabled through a special household travel survey to allow the potential new service concepts to be visualized and assessed by potential consumers.

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Supplemental Notes:
- Program Information: Surface Transportation Research, Operations Research and Development

Language

English

Project

Status: Completed
Funding: $797357
Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Highway Administration

Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
6300 Georgetown Pike
McLean, VA United States 22101
Project Managers:
Ferlis, Robert
Performing Organizations:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Urban and Regional Planning Program, 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI United States 48109-2069
Principal Investigators:
Levine, Jonathan
Start Date: 20090901
Expected Completion Date: 20140228
Actual Completion Date: 20131231

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Modal shift; Mode choice; Public transit; Travel patterns; Travel surveys; Trip purpose; Urban areas
Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 01573546
Record Type: Research project
Source Agency: Department of Transportation
Files: RiP, USDOT
Created Date: Aug 24 2015 3:03PM