TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Kari Watkins A2 - Simon Berrebi A2 - Gregory Erhardt A2 - Jawad Hoque A2 - Vedant Goyal A2 - Candace Brakewood A2 - Abubakr Ziedan A2 - Wesley Darling A2 - Brendon Hemily A2 - Josephine Kressner TI - Recent Decline in Public Transportation Ridership: Analysis, Causes, and Responses DO - 10.17226/26320 PY - 2022 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26320/recent-decline-in-public-transportation-ridership-analysis-causes-and-responses PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Rethinking mission and service delivery, rethinking fare policy, giving transit priority, careful partnering with shared-use mobility providers, and encouraging transit-oriented density are among the strategies transit agencies can employ to increase ridership and mitigate or stem declines in ridership that started years before the COVID-19 pandemic.The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research Report 231: Recent Decline in Public Transportation Ridership: Analysis, Causes, and Responses provides a deep-dive exploration of the ridership losses already being experienced by transit systems prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and explores strategies that appear to be key as we move to the new normal of a post-pandemic world.Supplemental to the report are TCRP Web-Only Document 74: Recent Decline in Public Transportation Ridership: Hypotheses, Methodologies, and Detailed City-by-City Results and an overview presentation. ER -