Audience Measurement for Transit Advertising
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2012
Subject Area
place - north america, mode - bus, mode - rail, economics - finance
Keywords
Advertising, Chicago Transit Authority, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Passenger cars, Public transit, Rail transit stations, Subways, Transit buses, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon
Abstract
This report documents a study to develop a transit advertising audience measurement model or methodology and presents a recommended approach for measuring the Opportunity to See advertising displayed on the exteriors of buses and other surface transit vehicles, as well as internal transit advertising displayed inside buses, railcars and transit stations. Fieldwork was conducted in three transit systems: Atlanta’s MARTA, Chicago’s CTA and Portland, Oregon’s TriMet, including tracking of bus exposures to other vehicle occupants, and rider intercept surveys. The report presents a series of methodologies for each component of transit advertising (bus exteriors, bus interiors, railcar interiors, station concourses and station platforms). The described methodologies include equations, sample calculations and sample worksheets. In addition, an eye‐tracking study was conducted on the New York MTA subway and bus system to test two proposed approaches to estimating actual viewership scores. The report also presents a road map for full‐scale implementation of transit advertising audience measurement.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Transportation Research Board, Washington, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
McGillivray, K., Latka, M., & Field, E. (2012). Audience Measurement for Transit Advertising. Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 57. Published by Transportation Research Board, Washington.
