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33 The analysis conducted in Chapter 3 uses service and ridership information by month at the transit agency level, which was provided by those agencies to NTD. While these data have been used to delineate the broad trends in ridership, they don't help answer the "when" and "where" questions, which are instrumental to identify the causes of ridership decline and define strategies to reverse the trend.
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34 Recent Decline in Public Transportation Ridership: Analysis, Causes, and Responses 2020)
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Figure 4-1. Relative change in bus ridership by time period in four MSAs.
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Figure 4-2. Relative change in total vehicle trips by time period in four MSAs.
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Bus Ridership and Frequency Trends by Time of Day in Four Cities 37 Seasonality In addition to ridership trends over the years, Figure 4-1 captures the seasonality of bus ridership. In Miami and Atlanta, ridership barely fluctuates throughout the year.
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38 Recent Decline in Public Transportation Ridership: Analysis, Causes, and Responses allocate frequency to maximize ridership, it is important to ask how and why the demand for bus service varies throughout the day. In this section, the relative distribution of demand and supply for buses by time period is compared.
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Figure 4-3. Productivity in passenger boardings and alightings by time period.
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40 Recent Decline in Public Transportation Ridership: Analysis, Causes, and Responses the population and trip purposes, the routes and vehicle trips with the greatest ridership would experience the greatest loss. Since elasticity is a relative measure, it allows for comparison of times and places that have different levels of demand and supply to begin with.
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Bus Ridership and Frequency Trends by Time of Day in Four Cities 41 frequent routes. Nonetheless, an analysis investigating these dynamics at the time-period level is still lacking.
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42 Recent Decline in Public Transportation Ridership: Analysis, Causes, and Responses more compact. For those segments, population and jobs are only counted once, even if they fall in the overlap of several bus stops within the same route-segment.
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Bus Ridership and Frequency Trends by Time of Day in Four Cities 43 trend in all agencies and time periods except for Portland in a.m.
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