Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metric
Demand responsive transit (DRT) is attracting increased attention as a means to provide public transit to low-density populations. This research aims to provide a suite of evaluation metrics with low data requirement and widespread availability, so that operators, funders, regulators, and practition...
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| description | Demand responsive transit (DRT) is attracting increased attention as a means to provide public transit to low-density populations. This research aims to provide a suite of evaluation metrics with low data requirement and widespread availability, so that operators, funders, regulators, and practitioners can better evaluate the performance of DRT services. Trip numbers can be divided by a number of available variables (period, trip length, population, and density) to create a number of derived metrics. By applying these variables across three different DRT service areas in Logan City, Australia, where other key factors are held constant, one can see how different formulations lead to very different readings of DRT system performance. The results confirm the dilemma of cost efficiency versus equity in service provision in low-density environments. This paper also highlights current data limitations and calls for better data collection to facilitate the development of new evaluation methods for DRT services and a new composite metric that can be used for inter-service comparison. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fb7b51b7bcee4e56bed9c171f46258062025-08-20T03:09:59ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingJournal of Transport and Land Use1938-78492021-04-0114110.5198/jtlu.2021.1796Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metricBenjamin Kaufman0Abraham Leung1Matthew Burke2Griffith UniversityGriffith UniversityGriffith UniversityDemand responsive transit (DRT) is attracting increased attention as a means to provide public transit to low-density populations. This research aims to provide a suite of evaluation metrics with low data requirement and widespread availability, so that operators, funders, regulators, and practitioners can better evaluate the performance of DRT services. Trip numbers can be divided by a number of available variables (period, trip length, population, and density) to create a number of derived metrics. By applying these variables across three different DRT service areas in Logan City, Australia, where other key factors are held constant, one can see how different formulations lead to very different readings of DRT system performance. The results confirm the dilemma of cost efficiency versus equity in service provision in low-density environments. This paper also highlights current data limitations and calls for better data collection to facilitate the development of new evaluation methods for DRT services and a new composite metric that can be used for inter-service comparison.https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/1796demand responsive transiton-demand transitdrtsocial equitytransport equitydial-a-ride |
| spellingShingle | Benjamin Kaufman Abraham Leung Matthew Burke Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metric Journal of Transport and Land Use demand responsive transit on-demand transit drt social equity transport equity dial-a-ride |
| title | Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metric |
| title_full | Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metric |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metric |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metric |
| title_short | Evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density-based trip rate metric |
| title_sort | evaluating demand responsive transit services using a density based trip rate metric |
| topic | demand responsive transit on-demand transit drt social equity transport equity dial-a-ride |
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