Off the grid… and back again? The recent evolution of American street network planning and design

G Boeing - Journal of the American Planning Association, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Problem, research strategy, and findings In this morphological study I identify and measure
recent nationwide trends in American street network design. Historically, orthogonal street …

How network structure can boost and shape the demand for bus transit

H Badia, J Argote-Cabanero, CF Daganzo - Transportation Research Part …, 2017 - Elsevier
Conventional wisdom states that transit riders are averse to transfers and that consequently
bus networks should be designed to limit their number. Probably as a result of this belief …

What really matters for increasing transit ridership: Understanding the determinants of transit ridership demand in Broward County, Florida

G Thompson, J Brown, T Bhattacharya - Urban Studies, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2004, Broward County Transit, located in Broward County, Florida, had among the highest
ridership per capita and lowest cost per passenger kilometre of all-bus systems in US …

Bus network structure and mobility pattern: A monocentric analytical approach on a grid street layout

H Badia, M Estrada, F Robusté - Transportation Research Part B …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study discusses which transit network structure is the best option to serve urban
mobility. As a consequence of the evolution of urban form, cities have undergone a process …

Transit and job accessibility: an empirical study of access to competitive clusters and regional growth strategies for enhancing transit accessibility

N Tilahun, Y Fan - Transport Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
This study looks at questions of regional transit job accessibility in an urban area making
significant changes to its transit system. The study area is the Minneapolis–St. Paul (MSP) …

The state of public transport systems in three Sub-Saharan African cities

E Bruun, R Del Mistro, Y Venter… - Paratransit in African …, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Current rates of urbanization in Sub-Saharan African cities place considerable pressures on
the public infrastructures that serve their growing populations. More particularly with respect …

Factors affecting travel demand by bus: an empirical analysis at US metropolitan statistical area level

BM Alam, H Nixon, Q Zhang - Transportation Research …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding the nature of transit travel demand is at the heart of transportation policy
making and the success of transit systems. Unfortunately, most existing studies focus …

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 …

Towards a better account and understanding of bus/rapid-transit interactions: The case of Los Angeles

LE Ramos-Santiago - Case Studies on Transport Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Bus transfers (access) at rapid-transit stations represent more than one-third of total
boardings in large, dispersed, polycentric cities in the US Yet, many station-level access …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing station level Direct-Demand models with Multi-Scalar accessibility indicators

LE Ramos-Santiago - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Direct-demand models (DDM) are increasingly being used for a diversity of transit research
and practice purposes. Yet few station-level DDM studies have explored the use of …