Baseline Transit Needs Assessment, Wichita, Kansas

Baseline Transit Needs Assessment, Wichita, Kansas
Author: Robert W. Stokes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1997
Genre: Local transit
ISBN:

The basic objective of this research project is to estimate the capital and operating costs associated with providing general public and paratransit services in Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence, and Manhattan, Kansas over the next ten years (1997-2006). This report presents the results of the transit needs assessment for Wichita. The results reported in the present study are based on a synthesis and extrapolation of existing data. The needs assessment is presented in aggregate financial terms.

National Transportation Strategic Planning Study

National Transportation Strategic Planning Study
Author: United States. Department of Transportation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1990
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Provided is an overview of the Nation's transportation system which identifies future investments required to maintain and develop its infrastructure. The contents of this study were used in support of the National Transportation Policy Statement, issued by the Department of Transportation during March 1990. It is organized around a framework in which transportation is viewed as an integral part of our socioeconomic system. The future development of transportation will be influenced by the same factors affecting the rest of the system, namely, demographic changes, the future course of the economy, the energy supply, and preservation of the environment.

Discrete Choice Analysis

Discrete Choice Analysis
Author: Moshe E. Ben-Akiva
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1985
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262022170

Discrete Choice Analysis presents these results in such a way that they are fully accessible to the range of students and professionals who are involved in modelling demand and consumer behavior in general or specifically in transportation - whether from the point of view of the design of transit systems, urban and transport economics, public policy, operations research, or systems management and planning. The methods of discrete choice analysis and their applications in the modelling of transportation systems constitute a comparatively new field that has largely evolved over the past 15 years. Since its inception, however, the field has developed rapidly, and this is the first text and reference work to cover the material systematically, bringing together the scattered and often inaccessible results for graduate students and professionals. Discrete Choice Analysis presents these results in such a way that they are fully accessible to the range of students and professionals who are involved in modelling demand and consumer behavior in general or specifically in transportation - whether from the point of view of the design of transit systems, urban and transport economics, public policy, operations research, or systems management and planning. The introductory chapter presents the background of discrete choice analysis and context of transportation demand forecasting. Subsequent chapters cover, among other topics, the theories of individual choice behavior, binary and multinomial choice models, aggregate forecasting techniques, estimation methods, tests used in the process of model development, sampling theory, the nested-logit model, and systems of models. Discrete Choice Analysis is ninth in the MIT Press Series in Transportation Studies, edited by Marvin Manheim.

Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?

Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?
Author: Karen Chapple
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262039842

An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning literature and various policy interventions in recent decades, we still understand little about what happens to neighborhoods and residents with the development of transit systems and the trend toward more compact cities. Research has failed to determine why some neighborhoods change both physically and socially while others do not, and how race and class shape change in the twenty-first-century context of growing inequality. Drawing on novel methodological approaches, this book sheds new light on the question of who benefits and who loses from more compact development around new transit stations. Building on data at multiple levels, it connects quantitative analysis on regional patterns with qualitative research through interviews, field observations, and photographic documentation in twelve different California neighborhoods. From the local to the regional to the global, Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris examine the phenomena of neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement not only through an empirical lens but also from theoretical and historical perspectives. Growing out of an in-depth research process that involved close collaboration with dozens of community groups, the book aims to respond to the needs of both advocates and policymakers for ideas that work in the trenches.