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36 A national trend of falling transit ridership has had many wondering what can be done. Many transit agencies across the country have undertaken campaigns to win back riders.
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Transit Agency Strategies 37 Bus Network Restructuring Recent efforts to increase transit ridership have consisted in restructuring bus networks to prioritize service concentration over coverage. Bus network redesigns in locations such as Houston, TX, have prioritized frequency of service in core corridors over long and circuitous routes with lower frequencies.
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38 Analysis of Recent Public Transit Ridership Trends One potential contributing factor not yet addressed in the literature or in the press is that these bus network redesigns were accompanied by net increases in bus operating budgets, likely to add substantial service. There is a need for research to parse the contributing factors of transit ridership and evaluate the singular impact of prioritizing concentration over coverage.
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Transit Agency Strategies 39 Two cities' pilots proved wildly successful at both speeding up vehicles and attracting riders at little cost. In Toronto, the city's busiest streetcar route on King Street was plagued with delays and inconsistent service as the vehicles sat in traffic with cars.
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40 Analysis of Recent Public Transit Ridership Trends vehicles. The FTA sandbox program, detailed in the next section and primarily focused on demand response, has provided funding for a bike sharing partnership in Chicago that looks to include bike sharing in its trip planning and fare payment app (Spielman, 2017)
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Transit Agency Strategies 41 and when riders would enter their origin and destination from a set of specific pickup and dropoff points, rides would be paired and chained together with Bridj's algorithm (Marshall, 2016)
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42 Analysis of Recent Public Transit Ridership Trends TriMet also accepts phone payments via mobile wallets and NFC readers (Altstadt, 2018)
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