by Jeff Smith
Someone has analyzed and come up with an "Idiot's Guide to Building a Transit System" so to speak. Thoughts?
http://buzzer.translink.ca/index.php/20 ... t-service/
http://buzzer.translink.ca/index.php/20 ... t-service/
This post is part of a series about Managing the Transit Network: all about how TransLink plans transit service in our region. See all the past blog posts in the series here.
This post covers pages 12-21 in the Managing the Transit Network primer.
So far in our series, we’ve talked about the overall goals and challenges for transit planning. And we’ve looked at the broad themes we keep in mind when we design a transit network. (We also did an interview with the planning team behind this project!)
But in this post, we’re going to take a look at transit planning on the street level. That is, how do we design a good bus route or transit line? (And by “good,” we mean “a transit line that serves lots of people for as much of the day as possible.”)
Well, there IS an actual answer. Generally, we try to design a transit line with nine specific elements to make it likely to serve lots of people almost all the time. They are:
•Serve areas of strong demand
•Have strong anchors at both ends
•Be as direct, simple, consistent and legible as possible
•Maintain speed and reliability along the entire route
•Avoid duplication or competition between transit services
•Match service levels to demand
•Have balanced loads in each direction
•Experience an even distribution of stop activity
•Have an even distribution of ridership by time of day
Next stop, Willoughby
~el Jefe :: RAILROAD.NET Site Administrator/Co-Owner; Carman at Naugatuck Railroad
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~el Jefe :: RAILROAD.NET Site Administrator/Co-Owner; Carman at Naugatuck Railroad
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