The factors influencing transit ridership: A review and analysis of the ridership literature

BD Taylor, CNY Fink - 2003 - escholarship.org
What explains transit ridership? The answer to this simple question is both obvious and
complex. Public transit systems carry large shares of person travel in older, larger …

Explaining transit ridership: What has the evidence shown?

BD Taylor, CNY Fink - Transportation Letters, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
What explains transit ridership? The answer to this simple question is both obvious and
complex. Public transit systems carry large shares of person travel in older, larger …

Nature and/or nurture? Analyzing the determinants of transit ridership across US urbanized areas

BD Taylor, D Miller, H Iseki, C Fink - … Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2009 - Elsevier
Public subsidy of transit services has increased dramatically in recent years, with little effect
on overall ridership. Quite obviously, a clear understanding of the factors influencing transit …

Analysis of Metro ridership at station level and station-to-station level in Nanjing: an approach based on direct demand models

J Zhao, W Deng, Y Song, Y Zhu - Transportation, 2014 - Springer
A growing base of research adopts direct demand models to reveal associations between
transit ridership and influence factors in recent years. This study is designed to investigate …

Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence

H Zhang, R Zahnow, Y Liu, J Corcoran - Applied geography, 2022 - Elsevier
Public transit stations are places that are known to generate opportunities for crime. By
spatially integrating crime data, smart card data and census data along with information from …

Analyzing the determinants of transit ridership using a two-stage least squares regression on a national sample of urbanized areas

BD Taylor, D Miller, H Iseki, C Fink - 2003 - escholarship.org
Understanding the factors influencing transit ridership is central to decisions on
transportation system investments and the pricing and deployment of transit services. Yet …

Familiar strangers and crime at transit stations: is crime lower at train stations where familiar strangers are present?

R Zahnow, CS Chen, J Corcoran - Applied spatial analysis and policy, 2023 - Springer
Familiar strangers—individuals related through regular and repeated visual encounter
occurring without verbal interaction—may reduce the risk of crime at places by increasing …

Investigating the determining factors for transit travel demand by bus mode in us metropolitan statistical areas

B Alam, H Nixon, Q Zhang - 2015 - rosap.ntl.bts.gov
Proper understanding of the nature of the transit travel demand is at the heart of
transportation policy making and the success of transit systems. Unfortunately, most of the …

Ridership and the built-form indicators: a study from Ahmedabad Janmarg Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS)

MR Islam, M Brussel, A Grigolon, T Munshi - Urban Science, 2018 - mdpi.com
Although the Janmarg (people's way) Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) system in
Ahmedabad, India, achieved worldwide accolades since its introduction, it has not reached …

On-street parking search: A UK local authority perspective

S Brooke, S Ison, M Quddus - Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2017 - JSTOR
Vehicles searching for parking create an environmental and economic impact. Despite
negative externalities for individual drivers and society as a whole, there is a dearth of …