Transit and elected officials experiencing ridership losses in recent years need to better understand what’s causing those declines before they can reverse them.
We are excited to debut a new tool that makes it easy for transit advocates, researchers, and journalists to better understand what’s going on with ridership in their region.
Like many transit agencies across the country, TriMet, the transit district serving the Portland, OR, metro region, has seen a recent loss in ridership, principally on its bus system.
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What's an essential but often missing component of high ridership transit networks? It isn't new branding on buses or the latest light rail car.
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Trying to understand why transit ridership is going up or down is a worthwhile pursuit, but one that is best undertaken locally.
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Since acknowledging that plunging bus ridership is a problem in Los Angeles, L.A. Metro is moving on several fronts to try to stabilize and recover bus patronage.
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Today we're excited to release TransitTools #2, a recipe for transit ridership.
As a follow-up to our post about how to download and interact with National Transit Database (NTD) ridership data, we wanted to further explore how to interpret and use this data.