BART, the 71-mile Bay Area Rapid Transit System, serving San Francisco Oakland, Berkeley, and their suburbs, is the first regional-scale rapid transit system to open in the United States in over 50 years. This report is one of a series assessing the impacts of BART on transportation and travel in the Bay Area. This report assesses BART's impacts on travel by ethnic minorities by analyzing data from (1) conventional large-scale travel surveys and (2) special 'field station' data collection efforts conducted by participant observers in ethnic minority communities. The latter were conducted in the predominantly Spanish-heritage Mission District of San Francisco and the predominantly Black city of Richmond. Minorities use BART rather less than suggested by their representation in the total population of the area served. Most minority BART riders are young, well-educated and have relatively high incomes, and like the white majority ridership, travel largely to central city destinations. Low-income disadvantaged minorities use the system little.


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    Title :

    BART Impacts on Travel by Ethnic Minorities


    Contributors:
    H. T. Frye (author) / P. M. Gelb (author) / D. Minkus (author)

    Publication date :

    1977


    Size :

    77 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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