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Understanding Transit-dependent Riders in the Portland Metro Area Preliminary Findings

Understanding Transit-dependent Riders in the Portland Metro Area Preliminary Findings. Dr. Jennifer Dill and Dr. Lisa Bates, Principal Investigators. Overview. How do we conceptualize transit dependence as a continuum? How do these categories compare to important equity analysis groups?

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Understanding Transit-dependent Riders in the Portland Metro Area Preliminary Findings

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  1. Understanding Transit-dependent Riders in the Portland Metro Area Preliminary Findings Dr. Jennifer Dill and Dr. Lisa Bates, Principal Investigators

  2. Overview • How do we conceptualize transit dependence as a continuum? • How do these categories compare to important equity analysis groups? • How do travel patterns differ across mobility groups? • What do these differences imply for measuring accessibility and considering equity? • What’s the housing-land use connection?

  3. Mobility  transit dependence • Concept mapping based on • Household: car ownership • Income implies choice (150% poverty) • Individual: driver status • Youth and disability are factors

  4. Disability Disability Disability

  5. Portland area data • Oregon Household Activity Survey (OHAS) 2011 • TriMet Origins + Destinations Survey (OD) 2012 • TriMet fare survey on board 2012

  6. Transit dependence and civil rights analysis: Race/ethnicity

  7. Transit dependence and civil rights analysis: Race/ethnicity

  8. Transit dependence and civil rights analysis: Low income OD survey • 44% of trips are very low income riders • 14% of trips are very low income and transit dependent

  9. Travel patterns by mobility group Are transit-dependent riders well served given their needs?

  10. Travel patterns:Time spent traveling

  11. Travel patterns:Time spent traveling Poor drivers travel twice the distance of poor transit riders, in the same amount of time

  12. Travel patterns: Transfers

  13. Travel patterns:Time of Day, Destinations • Commute? • Mobile travel more during morning peak • Poor transit dependent riders and Persons with disability much less often going to work • Poor trans disadvantaged, poor mobile and choice mobile most often going to work • Non-work activities • Poor and disabled dependent and disadvantaged adults are twice as often traveling with a child compared to choice riders • PWD shopping, medical appointments

  14. “The” equity question? considering a Title VI/EJ analysis compared with a transit dependence analysis • Better serving those currently dependent on transit? • Or creating system that makes it possible for current drivers to depend on transit?

  15. Measuring accessibility by transit – salience for specific populations? Transit access to family wage jobs (60 min or less travel time) Family-wage jobs are defined by the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies as the income level needed to support one adult, one preschooler, and one school age child. The income level varies by the county of residence: Clark ($48,172), Clackamas ($54,343), Washington ($58,915), and Multnomah ($47,244).

  16. When is a transit equity problem not a transit problem? OD 2012 home locations of riders

  17. Zoom in on west side/ Washington County OD 2012 home locations of riders

  18. When is a transit equity problem not a transit problem?

  19. Implications – Next steps • Transit dependent or able to depend on transit? • Accessibility by transit – for whom? • The housing - land use challenge

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