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47 The future of transit markets will be strongly influenced by the preferences held by the metropolitan population of that time. Several preferences come into play in selecting where one lives and how one travels.
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48 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation Preferences About Where to Live Preferences for Residential Location Among the 14 subgroups examined, the most extreme contrasts were between those living in the neighborhood type "most transit-oriented" (in their preference for the big city) , and those in the market segment "car lover" (in their preference for the suburbs)
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Preferences About Where We Live and How We Travel 49 house ("urban house type ideal") was the neighborhood type "most transit-oriented" (79%)
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50 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation association transitions steadily to suburban and single-use locations as the accessibility value declines. Valuing short distances, walking to stores, and using transit are all logically associated with the transit orientation categorization.
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Preferences About Where We Live and How We Travel 51 Table 11. Primary and additional reasons for choice of present location, by age, neighborhood type, and market segment, 2016.
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52 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation would drive an extra 45 minutes for a bigger house, while women were more likely to say that they expected to drive more in general.
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Preferences About Where We Live and How We Travel 53 • Market segment. Only the most transit-oriented market segment, urban commuters, reported no agreement with the need to drive a car to get where one needs to go.
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54 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation • Neighborhood type. The level of support for carsharing and bikesharing programs decreases directly with the auto orientation of the neighborhood.
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Preferences About Where We Live and How We Travel 55 did disagree. Persons aged 65 or more did not report being uncomfortable when being on transit with others.
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56 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation was strongest for the two most transit-oriented neighborhood types and weakest for the two most highway-oriented neighborhood types. Implicitly, the more experience one has with transit, the more one reports feeling safe.
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Preferences About Where We Live and How We Travel 57 Table 16. Reasons for selecting the next home location, by age, neighborhood type, and market segment, 2016.
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58 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation Table 17 shows that millennials expected a large reduction in their use of public transit, whereas the older two age groups expected an increase. For the sample overall, there was an expectation of a small reduction in using transit, from approximately 1.1 days per week currently to 1 day per week in the future.
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