Understanding How Individuals Make Travel and Location Decisions: Implications for Public Transportation (2008) / Chapter Skim
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130 The primary objectives of this research were twofold -- namely, to understand how people make travel and location decisions and to derive practical implications and policy guidance for encouraging more use of public transportation and walking. An underlying assumption is that growing urban congestion and impaired mobility can be mitigated by encouraging people to substitute public transportation and walking for individual automobile use.
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Although this research was experimental in nature, there are some findings that provide practical advice to practitioners in the transit field. Practical Implications from the Phase 1 Research Findings from Phase 1 that have practical implications include the following: • Some features of a CN were of greater importance to this sample of respondents than other features.
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• Although most respondents (70%) indicated that transit service was within walking distance, normative support for increased walking and use of public transit was low.
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transit arrival/departure times, as well as other services that make people feel safer and more confident about using transit. • Educate and market the use of public transportation to the public, focusing first on segments of the population that are known to be more receptive.
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