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- Examining the Influence of Multidestination Service Orientation on Transit Service Productivity: A Multivariate Analysis.
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Brown, Jeffrey, Thompson, Gregory
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Between 1990 and 2000,U.S.transit agencies added service and increased ridership, but the ridership increase failed to keep pace with the service increase. The result was a decline in service effectiveness (or productivity). This marks the continuation of a long-running and often-studied trend. The scholarly literature attributes this phenomenon, at least in part, to transit agency decisions to decentralize their service rather than focus on serving the traditional CBD market. Many scholars...
Show moreBetween 1990 and 2000,U.S.transit agencies added service and increased ridership, but the ridership increase failed to keep pace with the service increase. The result was a decline in service effectiveness (or productivity). This marks the continuation of a long-running and often-studied trend. The scholarly literature attributes this phenomenon, at least in part, to transit agency decisions to decentralize their service rather than focus on serving the traditional CBD market. Many scholars argue that a decentralized service orientation is both ineffective and inefficient because it attracts few riders and requires large per-rider subsidies. This research tests whether a non-traditional, decentralized service orientation, called multidestination service, results in reduced service productivity. Contrary to what the literature suggests, we find that MSAs whose transit agencies pursued a multidestination service orientation did not experience lower productivity. These results indicate that policies that have encouraged the growth of decentralized transit services have not necessarily been detrimental to the industry.
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- 2008
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- FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0015, 10.1007/s11116-007-9140-x
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- Planning for Cars in Cities: Planners, Engineers, and Freeways in the 20th Century.
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Brown, Jeffrey
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Problem: One hundred years ago the First National Conference on City Planning took place inWashington,DC. While in some ways the delegates failed to foresee future trends (such as the consequences of automobility and suburbanization), in other ways they were remarkably prescient. They stressed the importance of the transportation/land use link, understood that transportation facilities must be harmoniously embedded in the urban fabric, and viewed transportation investments as a tool that...
Show moreProblem: One hundred years ago the First National Conference on City Planning took place inWashington,DC. While in some ways the delegates failed to foresee future trends (such as the consequences of automobility and suburbanization), in other ways they were remarkably prescient. They stressed the importance of the transportation/land use link, understood that transportation facilities must be harmoniously embedded in the urban fabric, and viewed transportation investments as a tool that could be used to shape the city as a whole—directing growth, revitalizing flagging areas, and linking jobs and housing. This vision was kept alive by transportation planners in subsequent decades, who envisioned a network of urban freeways which would be context-sensitive and fully integrated into their urban milieu. However, due to a lack of local funding and control, these roads were never to be built and this vision was to be abandoned. Purpose: In this paper, we consider the history ofU.S.urban transportation planning over the past 100 years. In particular, we focus on the evolution and legacy of the single most important transportation development of the past century save for the advent of automobility itself: the emergence of the urban freeway. Methods: The paper relies on an historical review of primary and secondary material, including plans, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, and scholarly articles and books. Results and conclusions: The paper argues that financial arrangements placed state and federal highway engineers in charge of interstate highway development, which affected highways' location and design. State highway engineers imposed a narrower, traffic service-oriented vision on metropolitan freeways that focused on maximizing vehicle throughput; other urban concerns were largely ignored. After a desultory planning process, overbuilt, sparse, ring-radial networks were routed through neighborhoods in cities around the country, often with great social and environmental costs. Though the system has undeniably conferred great benefits in terms of enhanced mobility, the costs have been high as well. Recent years have seen a return to a more urban planning-oriented view of transportation that stresses the land use interaction and the social, environmental, and aesthetic impacts of transportation facilities. It is a vision with which the founders of what became the American Planning Association (APA) would have sympathized. Takeaway for practice: The paper highlights 100 years of transportation planning practice, and provides an accounting of ideas that have resurfaced in transportation planning since the early 1990s. The paper stresses a century-old vision of coordinated transportation-land use planning that has returned to the fore in practice today. The paper suggests that political expediency in public finance can have profound, long-lasting, frequently unanticipated effects on projects, travel, and urban form.
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- 2009
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- FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0014, 10.1080/01944360802640016
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- The Relationship between Transit Ridership and Urban Decentralization: Insights from Atlanta.
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Brown, Jeffrey, Thompson, Gregory
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Conventional wisdom suggests that the increasing decentralization of population and employment in U.S. metropolitan areas is to blame for declining public transit mode shares and deteriorating system productivity. Proponents of this view assert that transit performs best when it connects suburbs to central business districts in more centralized urban environments. Our time-series analysis of transit patronage in Atlanta suggests that the previously reported secular decline in transit...
Show moreConventional wisdom suggests that the increasing decentralization of population and employment in U.S. metropolitan areas is to blame for declining public transit mode shares and deteriorating system productivity. Proponents of this view assert that transit performs best when it connects suburbs to central business districts in more centralized urban environments. Our time-series analysis of transit patronage in Atlanta suggests that the previously reported secular decline in transit patronage is attributable to employment decentralization outside the MARTA service area but that this can be reduced if the transit system makes decentralizing employment reachable.
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- 2008
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- FSU_migr_durp_faculty_publications-0016, 10.1177/0042098008089856
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