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35 The characteristics of the residential setting, in terms both of physical characteristics and of transportation options offered, have a profound effect on the frequency of transit use. Chapter 3 includes five sections: 1.
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36 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation Residential Settlement Patterns Were Not Supportive of Transit Transit is at its most effective and attractive as a transportation mode when it can provide frequent on-time service, have few restrictions on its travel speed, serve a finite number of stops (to not overly diminish average speed) , and be readily accessed on foot at both the origin and destination of a trip.
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Variation in Transit Use by Neighborhood Type and Urban Form 37 Most of the growth between 1990 and 2010 appears to have occurred in large metropolitan areas with populations of 5 million or more. Figure 20 illustrates how the greatest population growth since 1990 occurred in the Southeast and Southwest regions of the United States.
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38 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation Engineers (ITE) that provides a similar and slightly simpler classification.
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Variation in Transit Use by Neighborhood Type and Urban Form 39 in the regional core (defined as within 3 miles of the city center) had dropped to 23.3% from about two-thirds in 1950 and one-half in 1963 (Cortright 2015)
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40 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation drivers that it suggests will dramatically influence future real estate investment and urban development decisions. The Urban Land Institute report argues that these trends in the wake of the recession illustrate systematic changes in the perception of and planning requirements for future cities.
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Variation in Transit Use by Neighborhood Type and Urban Form 41 Figure 21. Growth of work-at-home share over 33 years.
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42 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation shows that millennials are far more likely than their older colleagues to use the subsidized shuttle service and the subsidies for transit and vanpooling. Flextime use occurs more often with those over age 35 than with those under 35.
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Variation in Transit Use by Neighborhood Type and Urban Form 43 and by transit. In working with these data, Ramsey and Bell found a strong relationship between the ratio of the transit- and auto-accessibility scores and the transit/auto mode split for work trips (as captured in the American Community Survey)
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