TRAVELER RESPONSE TO TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM CHANGES. CHAPTER 10 - BUS ROUTING AND COVERAGE

This chapter addresses traveler response to, and related impacts of, conventional bus transit routing alterations. Included are routing changes at both the individual route and system levels, new bus systems and system closures, bus system expansion and retrenchment, increases and decreases in geographic coverage, and routing and coverage changes made together with fare changes. This chapter covers the travel demand and related aspects of most types of service changes to local conventional bus operations. This chapter, Chapter 10, will be of interest to transit planning practitioners; educators and researchers; and professionals across a broad spectrum of transportation agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and local, state, and federal government agencies.