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Werner CM, Brown BB, Tribby CP, et al. Evaluating the attractiveness of a new light rail extension: Testing simple change and displacement change hypotheses. Transp Policy (Oxf). 2016;45:15-23doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2015.09.003.
Werner, C. M., Brown, B. B., Tribby, C. P., Tharp, D., Flick, K., Miller, H. J., Smith, K. R., & Jensen, W. (2016). Evaluating the attractiveness of a new light rail extension: Testing simple change and displacement change hypotheses. Transport policy, 4515-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2015.09.003
Werner, Carol M, et al. "Evaluating the attractiveness of a new light rail extension: Testing simple change and displacement change hypotheses." Transport policy vol. 45 (2016): 15-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2015.09.003
Werner CM, Brown BB, Tribby CP, Tharp D, Flick K, Miller HJ, Smith KR, Jensen W. Evaluating the attractiveness of a new light rail extension: Testing simple change and displacement change hypotheses. Transp Policy (Oxf). 2016 Jan;45:15-23. doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2015.09.003. PMID: 26543329; PMCID: PMC4629857.
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Transp Policy (Oxf). 2016 Jan;45:15-23. doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2015.09.003.

Evaluating the attractiveness of a new light rail extension: Testing simple change and displacement change hypotheses.

Transport policy

Carol M Werner, Barbara B Brown, Calvin P Tribby, Doug Tharp, Kristi Flick, Harvey J Miller, Ken R Smith, Wyatt Jensen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E, Salt Lake City 84112, UT, USA.
  2. Department of Family & Consumer Studies and Cancer Control & Population Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, 225 S 1400 E RM 228, Salt Lake City 84112, UT, USA.
  3. Department of Geography, Ohio State University, 1036 Derby Hall, Columbus 43210, OH, USA.
  4. Department of Family & Consumer Studies and Cancer Control & Population Sciences, University of Utah, 225 S 1400 E RM 228, Salt Lake City 84112, UT, USA.
  5. Department of Family & Consumer Studies, University of Utah, 225S 1400 E RM 228, Salt Lake City 84112, UT, USA.

PMID: 26543329 PMCID: PMC4629857 DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2015.09.003

Abstract

Many communities in the United States have been adding new light rail to bus-predominant public transit systems. However, there is disagreement as to whether opening light rail lines attracts new ridership or merely draws ridership from existing transit users. We study a new light rail line in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, which is part of a complete street redevelopment. We utilize a pre-test post-test control group quasi-experimental design to test two different measures of ridership change. The first measure is calculated from stops along the light rail route; the second assumes that nearby bus stops might be displaced by the rail and calculates ridership change with those stops included as baseline. Both the simple measure (transit use changes on the complete street light rail corridor) and the "displacement" measure (transit use changes in the one-quarter mile catchment areas around new light rail stops) showed significant (

Keywords: Bus; Complete streets; Light rail; Ridership

References

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  2. CMAJ. 2006 Mar 14;174(6):801-9 - PubMed

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