Methods for Forecasting Demand and Quantifying Need for Rural Passenger Transportation
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2010
Subject Area
place - rural, place - north america, ridership - demand, planning - service level, ridership - forecasting, ridership - commuting
Keywords
Data sources, Demand, Forecasting, Needs assessment, Ridership, Rural transit, Workbooks
Abstract
This Workbook is intended to provide planners with the ability to answer questions regarding the magnitude of the need for public transit services within a geographic area, as well as the annual ridership (i.e. “demand”) that a transit service would be expected to carry. This Workbook is organized in four major chapters ‐ Introduction, Need, Demand, and Data Sources. Chapter I discusses the Workbook purpose and organization and provides definitions of terms used in the Workbook. The next two chapters provide methods for estimating need (Chapter II) and demand (Chapter III). Chapter IV lists sources for the data required for application of the methods.
Recommended Citation
Spielberg, F., Stoddard, A.T., & Erickson, J. (2010). Methods for Forecasting Demand and Quantifying Need for Rural Passenger Transportation. Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 49, published by Transportation Research Board, Washington.
