Improving public transport ridership through a better understanding of transport accessibility, transit service quality and users' perceptions

通过更好地了解交通可达性、交通服务质量和用户的看法来提高公共交通乘客量

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-06032
• 负责人: Diab, Ehab
• 金额: $ 2.26万
• 依托单位: University of Saskatchewan
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=754846
• 关键词: Improving; public; transport; ridership; through

Improving transit ridership is a fundamental goal for transport authorities and policymakers. In fact, an attractive transit system is essential for sustainability, equity, and the livability of any city. A growing transit market share increases transit agencies' revenues and, thereby, the quality of service provided to the public. This has been seen as a win-win situation for both users and agencies. Nevertheless, recent statistics have shown levelling-off and declining trends in ridership in many Canadian and US cities. Traditionally, modelling the factors affecting transit ridership has been mainly focused on analyzing transit level of service factors in addition to socioeconomic and land use factors. Emerging new technologies and transport alternatives, however, show an impact on travellers' preferences, attitudes and perceptions. Therefore, it is now more important than ever to provide a comprehensive and clear understanding of the determinants of ridership. To meet this goal, the proposed research program includes four major interconnected projects that provide novel approaches to establishing functional relationships between transit ridership and several influential factors. The first project estimates the relationship between users' level of satisfaction, preferences towards the new transport technologies, social stigmas, service reliability, and the use of public transit across different cities in Canada. The second project involves measuring the impact of different transit service improvement strategies on transit system performance and the satisfaction of different groups of users in Saskatoon. The third project assesses the effects of transit service disruptions on users' travel behaviours and transit route choices in the long and short term. The fourth project focuses on modelling local and regional accessibility with car, transit, and active transport modes to various opportunities while understanding their association with transit ridership. The proposed research program offers a long-term contribution to the transportation field in all its aspects. It articulates innovative approaches for collecting and fusing various forms of data while generating more adequate methodologies to quantify the impact of transport investments from different perspectives at different scales. It also provides an empirical understanding of several issues that are of great significance in helping predict demand and growing the transit market share, benefiting transit agencies, engineers, and planners in Canada, and beyond. More importantly, it will assist in training a new generation of transportation professionals and decision-makers, who will incorporate and integrate people's perceptions and behaviours into the transit planning process and, thereby, develop policies that are more effective. The short-term impacts involve providing off-the-shelf tools and studies for the local authorities, helping them better direct their investments.

改善运输乘车率是运输当局和政策制定者的基本目标。实际上，有吸引力的过境系统对于任何城市的可持续性，公平和宜居性至关重要。不断增长的公交市场份额增加了运输机构的收入，从而增加了向公众提供的服务质量。对于用户和代理商来说，这被视为双赢的情况。尽管如此，最近的统计数据表明，加拿大和美国许多城市的乘车率趋势和趋势下降。传统上，建模影响过境乘客的因素的建模主要集中在分析除社会经济和土地利用因素外，除了分析服务因素的过渡水平。但是，新兴的新技术和运输替代方案对旅行者的偏好，态度和看法有影响。因此，现在比以往任何时候都更重要，对乘客的决定因素有一个全面而清晰的了解。为了实现这一目标，拟议的研究计划包括四个主要的互连项目，这些项目提供了建立运输乘客和几个影响因素之间功能关系的新方法。第一个项目估计了用户满意度，对新运输技术的偏好，社会污名，服务可靠性以及在加拿大不同城市之间的公共交通之间的关系。第二个项目涉及衡量不同运输服务改进策略对公交系统性能的影响以及萨斯卡通不同用户的满意度。第三个项目在长期和短期内评估了运输服务中断对用户旅行行为和运输路线选择的影响。第四个项目的重点是通过汽车，运输和主动运输模式为各种机会建模本地和区域可访问性，同时了解他们与运输乘客的关联。 拟议的研究计划在其各个方面为运输领域做出了长期贡献。它阐明了收集和融合各种数据的创新方法，同时生成更适当的方法来量化从不同范围内不同角度从不同角度量化运输投资的影响。它还对几个在帮助预测需求和发展过境市场份额，使运输机构，工程师和加拿大及以后的计划人员受益的几个问题也提供了一个重要意义的经验理解。更重要的是，它将有助于培训新一代的运输专业人士和决策者，他们将将人们的看法和行为纳入运输计划过程，从而制定更有效的政策。短期影响涉及为地方当局提供现成的工具和研究，以帮助他们更好地指导其投资。