Evaluating Land Use Methods for Altering Travel Behavior. Final Report for Tasks1a, 2, and 3

摘要

This document reports on the first year progress of what was initially conceivedof as a multi-year study intended to control for socio-economic, land use, and transit level of service variables in analyzing whether markets exist for transit in suburban environments. Task 1a summarizes transit trends in Florida. Task 1b is a trial effort based on Sacramento data to bridge gaps between the urban structure-oriented and the transit level-of-service-oriented studies by controlling for both sets of variables. Task 2 involves developing a program to abstract variables from the U.S. Census Public Use Micro Sample for a later analysis of policy variables on transit usage. Task 3 carries out a demonstration of the feasibility of merging of assessor land use files with U.S. Census Summary Tape Files 3 for Orange County at the census tract level of detail.