Getting

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Getting Using Transit Data

• John Semmens
• Laissez Faire Institute
• Arizona Transportation Institute

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Aggregated Data Sources

• Public Transportation Fact Book, American Public
  Transportation Association (http//www.apta.com)
• Highway Statistics, Federal Highway
  Administration (http//www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohp
  i/hss/)
• American Dream Coalition (http//americandreamcoal
  ition.org/)

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Transit Data

• Ridership Trips Passenger-Miles
• Vehicle-Miles Hours
• Costs Revenues
• Crashes Fatalities
• Crime

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Highway Data

• Vehicle-Miles
• Costs Revenues
• Crashes Fatalities

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City-by-City Data

• Transit Profiles, Federal Transit Administration
  (http//www.ntdprogram.com/NTD/Profiles.nsf/Profil
  eInformation?OpenForm2001All).
• Section 5309 Annual Report on New Starts and
  Final Environmental Impact Statement, Valley
  Metro (www.valleymetro.org)

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Local Data

• Disaggregated Data
• Traffic Impact
• Environmental Impact

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Transit's Share of Urban Travel
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1950
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2001
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Sources Public Transportation Fact Book and
Highway Statistics
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Summing Up

• There is a lot of published data availableboth
  national local.
• Some data are easy to get, other data require
  more effort.
• The data tell a story of public transit
  inefficiency, inequity ineffectiveness.
• Getting this story out to the media and voters is
  difficult.

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Questions ?