Many universities in the United States provide students with subsidized transportation options through fixed-route buses or collaborative ridesharing services. Prior studies have explored the impacts of ridesharing services on the general public’s ridership of fixed-route transit, but none have narrowed their focus to the student population. In this study, real-time ridership data of a fixed-route shuttle and a shared autonomous vehicle (SAV) service that provides services to the students at a university in Arlington, Texas, is used to analyze the impacts of the SAV service on the ridership of the existing fixed route transit. To complement our findings from the ridership data, we also analyzed survey responses from the SAV service users to explore their preferences for different types of mobility services. Current data analyses show a shift of ridership from fixed-route transit to flexible on-demand modes and indicate that students prefer flexible on-demand services. The findings from this study provide guidelines for universities as they make decisions relative to improving and/or expanding their existing mobility services.
Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) Services vs. Fixed Route Transit: An Exploratory Study of University Students
International Conference on Transportation and Development 2022 ; 2022 ; Seattle, Washington
2022-08-31
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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