Wednesday, January 14, 2015

New Answer To An Old Question

The answer to the question "How far will people walk to reach a transit stop?" has traditionally been half a mile. New research presented yesterday at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (which our Transportation Planner Eve is attending, by the way) says that number may be wrong. Which could change the whole context of what living "close" to transit means. So just how far does public transit reach extend? The Atlantic Citylab takes a look at the new numbers.

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SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.

SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.