1 / 8

T-BEST Nothing But the BEST for Transit Planning and Ridership Forecasting

T-BEST Nothing But the BEST for Transit Planning and Ridership Forecasting. TBAG, October 28, 2004. Research Project Team. Ram M. Pendyala Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ of South Florida, Tampa Steve Polzin and Xuehao Chu

zareh
Download Presentation

T-BEST Nothing But the BEST for Transit Planning and Ridership Forecasting

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. T-BESTNothing But the BESTforTransit Planning and Ridership Forecasting TBAG, October 28, 2004

  2. Research Project Team • Ram M. Pendyala Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ of South Florida, Tampa • Steve Polzin and Xuehao Chu Center for Urban Trans Research (CUTR), Univ of South Florida, Tampa • Software Development: Rodney Bunner Geodecisions, Inc., Tampa • Wade White* and Seongsoon Yun* Gannett Fleming, Inc. • Fadi Nassar Keith & Schnars PA, Fort Lauderdale • Project Manager: Ike Ubaka Public Transit Office, Florida Dept of Transportation, Tallahassee

  3. History of Transit Model Development • FDOT Public Transit Office very proactive in transit planning tool development • TLOS and FTIS examples of transit planning and information tools • Transit ridership modeling tools • ITSUP: Integrated Transit Demand & Supply Model • RTFAST: Regional Transit Feasibility Analysis & Simulation Tool • Towards stop-level ridership forecasting models

  4. T-BEST Arc 1.1 • Model estimates number of boardings at a stop by: • Route • Direction • Time period • Model estimates two types of boardings: • Direct Boardings: Walk and Bike Access • Transfer Boardings: Transit Access • ESRI ArcGIS based transit network mapping and coding capability

  5. T-BEST Arc: A Sophisticated Planning Tool • T-BEST Arc accounts for: • Population and employment at stop • Accessible population and employment from stop • Route attributes • Fare  Route type • Frequency  Technology • Span of service  Special generators • Transfers  Time of day • Wait time, transfer time • In-vehicle time

  6. Role of Accessibility and Connectivity • Transit ridership strongly affected by: • Destination accessibility • Temporal availability • Network connectivity • Competing and complementary stops • T-BEST sensitive to all four aspects of transit accessibility • Ability to test effects of alternative route and network design configurations on transit boardings • Sophisticated methodology in T-BEST

  7. Model and Software Functionality • T-BEST provides user-friendly interfaces and functionality: • GIS interface for database setup and displays • Sets of default equations by time period • Automated buffering • Automated accessibility and impedance computations • Report generation including performance measures

  8. T-BEST Arc Software • T-BEST 1.1 software development complete • Model estimation using APC data from Jacksonville • Statewide Census 2000 data included • Full GIS functionality for drawing/coding transit routes • Complete users guide available • Training @ USF Engineering Computer Lab on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 – Stay Tuned!

More Related