Toolkit for Estimating Demand for Rural Intercity Bus Services (2011) / Chapter Skim
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10 The study team initiated telephone interviews with industry association staff to identify existing information about demand and/or information about rural intercity providers that were included in the subsequent survey efforts. The American Bus Association provided data on the state program contacts and the general status of rural intercity bus programs, which were used as a resource for contacting state program staff to obtain lists of Section 5311(f)
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where this approach has been applied, the rates are believed to have been developed based on ridership on conventional, privately provided scheduled intercity service -- which implies a relatively low frequency (in rural areas) and a particular fare level (around $0.10 per passenger-mile)
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Macon–Brunswick service using Georgia data (1) and for the Bay Transit service area in Virginia (2)
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modal travel demand models, but the focus is generally on city-to-city travel rather than rural-to-urban travel. A singlemode bus model would include the typical steps of trip generation and trip distribution to a network but would not include mode split because it is one mode.
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most recent data is from 2002. A decade ago KFH Group developed a rate of 0.125 intercity trips per capita per year in the absence of any other data, based on the general assumption that Greyhound's ridership was half of the total U.S.
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The second route, Omak–Wenatchee–Ellensburg, is operated by an intercity bus operator, with interline tickets and intercity bus fare levels, so one would expect the point estimates to be more accurate. However, in this case the estimated ridership of 2,527 is less than the 6,000 or so actual riders.
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The model was run for each point to be served on the potential routes previously developed, and then the point estimates were summed to provide a route estimate. This was done for three proposed routes.
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develop services to also serve other markets. Such other markets could include medical trips, connections to other intercity modes, regional shopping, or even work trips.
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