BART, the 71-mile Bay Area Rapid Transit System, serving San Francisco, Oakland, and other cities and communities, is the first regional-scale rapid transit system to open in the United States in over 50 years. Service began in 1972. This report is one of a series assessing the impact of BART on transportation and travel in Bay Area. Accessibility measures were based on estimates of zone-to-zone travel times and transit fares derived from computer network representations of the Bay Area transportation system. Comparisons are made for the 1971 pre-BART, 1976 with-BART, and 1976 hypothetical 'no-BART' transit networks and the 1976 highway network. Peak period travel times were compared for selected zones representing typical home-to-work trips, while off-peak comparisons were made for selected shopping destinations. Weighted travel times were also computed based on the estimated volume of trips between zones. As it was designed to, BART provides the most significant travel time improvements for long-distance, downtown-oriented trips by public transit, especially from out-lying areas that would have relatively poor transit service without BART. However, for most trips, door-to-door times by BART are still much longer than times for the same trips by automobile, even at periods of peak highway congestion.


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    Title :

    Exploratory Network Analyses of BART's Impacts Upon Accessibility


    Contributors:
    H. S. L. Fan (author) / A. Sherret (author)

    Publication date :

    1977


    Size :

    151 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English