Despite continued and growing public support of public transit, traffic congestion continues to get worse and transit ridership and service levels have grown but not sufficiently to play a more meaningful role in addressing growing travel demands. As a result, interest continues in exploring how significant service increases might provide adequate transit capacity and sufficiently attractive service levels to attract enough ridership to offset the need of households for the current number of vehicles. Similarly, policy analysts speculate that the resource saved by households with fewer autos may represent a sufficient consumer benefit to justify or offset the higher subsidy costs necessary to provide the enhanced services. While speculation on this topic is common amongst transit planners and advocates, the literature currently offers little insight into this issue. This report estimates the average costs of private car ownership in the country based on the household income and expenditures using the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Data. Travel behavior as a function of vehicle ownership is explored with the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS).


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    Titel :

    Exploration of a Shift in Household Transportation Spending from Vehicles to Public Transportation


    Beteiligte:
    S. Polzin (Autor:in) / X. Chu (Autor:in) / V. S. Raman (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2008


    Format / Umfang :

    63 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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