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1 Making Effective Fixed-Guideway Transit Investments: Indicators of Success Fixed-guideway transit projects, such as urban rail and bus rapid transit (BRT) lines, are among the largest infrastructure investments that cities and metropolitan areas make.
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2cost, service frequencies, measures of connectivity to the larger transit network, regional and local demographics, and the relative costs of driving in terms of parking and congestion. The project team created two data sets.
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3 had not compared the relative importance of these factors. The degree of grade separation is likely influential because it serves as a proxy for service variables such as speed, frequency, and reliability that may lead to greater transit ridership.
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4Unexpectedly, lower-wage jobs and population near stations both contribute negatively to system-wide PMT if not counterbalanced by high freeway congestion and a range of other job types. After exhaustive testing of the models to account for possible additional missing factors, the researchers concluded that the results are robust though somewhat counterintuitive.
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5 Case Studies The research team conducted case studies of diverse transit projects in six metropolitan areas to gain an understanding of how transit planning decisions had been made and the nature of any indicator-based evaluations that had occurred. The indicator-based method proposed in this study would be situated within an already-robust set of indicator-based approaches.
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