Every day, public transit is integral to millions of people. From core urban commuters crowded onto subways and commuter rail trains to suburbanites searching for alternatives to capacity-constrained highways to small towns trying to meet their residents’ basic mobility needs. The heightened awareness of transit’s interconnectedness with daily life is fueling renewed interest in transit solutions.
Can America’s Car Culture Share the Road with a Transit Culture?
Can the country that epitomizes car culture become more transit-accessible? Trends are looking good. Public transit ridership is up across the board, and more Americans are coming to realize many of the benefits of public transportation: increased productivity while commuting, competitive travel times, a reduced carbon footprint, and more livable neighborhoods and cities.
Since its founding, RSG has worked with transportation agencies and policy-makers nationwide to help them quantify and understand transit’s many complexities that lead to better ridership forecasts and systems planning to maximize customer benefits. Through a variety of sophisticated data collection and analysis methodologies tailored to each client, RSG knows transit and its potential to affect life’s fundamentals.
Transit Projects
Stated Preference, Conjoint, and Mode Choice—Understanding what travelers value when making travel choices
FTA New Starts and Travel Forecasting—Working to understand future travel demand for major transit investments Origin–Destination (OD) Survey—What are our markets, where are they going?Customer Satisfaction—Understanding customers over time to see why satisfaction is changing for individuals
Transit Solutions in Non-Urban Settings—Improving transit choices in rural markets
- Real Time Passenger Information for a Rural Transit Provider
- Modeling the Effects of Transit Service on User Capacity in Arches National Park