Abstract
 Forecasting Stop-Level Ridership for Florida's Transit Systems Track: Transportation Author(s): Ike Ubaka, Rodney Bunner Transit agencies in Florida often do not have the resources and staff available to implement large-scale travel demand modeling systems or collect and assemble the elaborate databases needed to support such systems. As a result, the Public Transit Office of the Florida Department of Transportation has been spearheading the development of transit demand forecasting models and transit systems planning tools for a wide variety of applications as part of its broader Transit Model Improvement Program. The culminating effort of this program is the Transit Boardings Estimation and Simulation Tool (T-BEST Arc). T-BEST Arc is an ArcGIS software-based program that provides comprehensive transit analysis and ridership forecasting. It is also capable of simulating travel demand at the individual stop-level while accounting for network connectivity, spatial and temporal accessibility, time-of-day variations, and route/stop competition and complementarity. Ike Ubaka Florida Department of Transportation Public Transit Office 605 Suwannee Street, MS 26 Tallahassee , FL 32399 US Phone: (850) 414-4532 E-mail: ike.ubaka@dot.state.fl.us Rodney Bunner GeoDecisions Westlake Corporate Center Suite 150 9119 Corporate Lake Dr. Tampa , FL Fl US Phone: 813-882-4366 Fax: 813-884-4609 E-mail: rbunner@geodecisions.com |
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