Data Needs for Assessing Rural Transit Needs, Benefits, and Levels of Service. Research Results Digest 376.

摘要

Rural transit provides critical mobility for residents in rural areas who lack private transportation, yet its performance and benefits to riders and the communities it serves receive far less attention than urban transit. This results both from differences in scale urban transit carried 10,134 million passenger trips in 2009, while rural transit carried less than 2% of that, with an estimated 116 million passenger trips the same yearas well as the more limited data available for rural transit assessment.