Forecasting Short-term Ridership Activities (TBEST); Final rept. for 29 Dec 06-29 Aug 07

摘要

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has initiated a pilot project to implement a new short-term transit planning model called TBEST (Transit Boardings Estimation and Simulation Tool). TBEST was developed by the Florida Department of Transportation's (FDOT) Public Transit Office (PTO) to provide support for Transit Agencies in developing their Transit Development Plans (TDPs). TBEST will be useful in this respect because it is capable of estimating transit ridership at the route stop-level and can then aggregate the ridership to the segment, route, and system levels. The TBEST pilot project for PennDOT entails the development of statewide socio-economic data which is compatible with TBEST, a development of the Endless Mountains Transportation Authority's (EMTA) and York County Transportation Authority's RabbitTransit TBEST networks, the calibration of each model, and the performance of the scenario based model analysis for both systems. This document explains the input data, process, and products used for the development of the Pennsylvania statewide socio-economic data and the development and coding of the EMTA and RabbitTransit TBEST networks.