Evaluating Public Transit Benefits and Costs - Best Practices Guidebook Abstract

It compares automobile and transit costs, and the advantages and disadvantages of bus and rail transit. [...] Since active transport (walking and cycling) and public transit are complements, transit travel tends to increase public fitness and health. [...] 4 Evaluating Public Transit Benefits and Costs Victoria Transport Policy Institute Public Transit’s Role in an Efficient and Equitable Transportation System During most of the last century automobile use (here automobile includes cars, light trucks, vans and SUVs and motorcycles) grew while public transit experienced a downward spiral of declining ridership, investment, and service quality, and mo. [...] A transit evaluation may consider whether a particular transit investment is cost effective (benefits exceed costs), which of several transit options provides the greatest net benefits, whether a transit improvement provides more value than a highway improvement, and how to optimize transit service benefits, and how the benefits and costs of a transportation option are distributed. [...] Transit Accessibility Transit accessibility refers to the number of services and activities that can be reached by public transit within a given time and financial budget, taking into account service quality and land use factors (SSTI 2021).