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16 Building Successful Practice 3.1 Attributes of Successful Prioritization Practice National research, guidance, and state of the practice reviews provide several lessons regarding attributes of successful practices in investment decision-making (Figure 7)
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Building Successful Practice 17 or regional planning organizations (RPOs)
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18 Prioritization of Public Transportation Investments: A Guide for Decision-Makers 3.2 Decision Criteria That Capture the Bene ts of Public Transportation e selection of decision criteria that fully capture the bene ts of public transportation helps ensure that funds are directed toward investments that will be successful and sustainable in the long run. To that end, Table 3 and Table 4 oer a summary of criteria that have positively aected the competitiveness of public transportation projects by capturing their intended and likely outcomes and bene ts.
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Building Successful Practice 19 Criteria Type Description «Accessibility Measures such as access to jobs for disadvantaged populations or access for zero-car households capture the importance of public transportation for low-income individuals and for accessibility more broadly. «Congestion/ Mobility Highlights public transit's ability to relieve congestion or help people avoid congestion through measures related to reducing person-hours of delay, reducing travel time between major activity centers, or increasing person throughput, often at the corridor level.
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20 Prioritization of Public Transportation Investments: A Guide for Decision-Makers bene ts and the time and eort involved in acquiring or developing such data. For this reason, Section 3.4 describes ways in which evaluation criteria can be implemented to various degrees of quanti cation, including relying on structured qualitative information where data, methods, or tools are either unavailable or insu cient.
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Building Successful Practice 21 when considering potential new riders. e next section discusses travel demand models.
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22 Prioritization of Public Transportation Investments: A Guide for Decision-Makers by meaningfully improved or expanded service. While travel demand, model-based methods are core to many planning and evaluation processes, particularly for MPOs, these limitations should be considered when developing transit investment prioritization methods.
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Building Successful Practice 23 on available information, tools, sta capacity for analysis, and whether a particular objective lends itself to quanti cation. Options in this area and their pros and cons are shown in Table 5.
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24 Prioritization of Public Transportation Investments: A Guide for Decision-Makers It is usually better to account for an important objective in a simpli ed manner than not to account for it at all. 3.5 Avoiding Modal Bias While Section 3.2 enumerates decision criteria that capture the bene ts of public transportation, it is equally important for transportation planners and analysts to understand factors that may unfairly or inherently preference other non-transit modes and therefore negatively aect the competitiveness of public transportation projects in the investment prioritization process.
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Building Successful Practice 25 Freight: Freight impacts may be included in multimodal prioritization but are generally not applicable to public "transit" projects. The intent of including freight-related metrics is generally to address the importance of freight to the economy.
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