Atlanta (GA) Regional On-Board Transit Survey
Atlanta (GA) Regional On-Board Transit Survey

Author: Barry Leonard

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 143793661X

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This survey gathered updated travel behavior data from transit users in the Atlanta area. A survey instrument was developed to be administered as an in-person interview using tablet PC¿s and printed surveys, to gather information that will support regional transportation planning needs. The data gathered will be used to recalibrate Atlanta Regional Commission¿s mode choice model. The data will also be shared with regional transit operators to help them gain a better understanding of how their services are being used. Contents: Overview; Survey Design; Sampling Plan; Team Org. and Survey Administration Procedures; Geocoding Process; QA/QC Review Process; Data Expansion; Selected Findings; Uses and Limitations of the Data. Charts and tables.

Transporting Atlanta
Transporting Atlanta

Author: Miriam Konrad

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2010-07-02

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 143842695X

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America's worsening nightmare of gridlock is given full attention in this illuminating study of the transportation crisis in Atlanta. Inconveniences and hardships created by too many automobiles and too few alternatives for movement have reached untenable levels. Miriam Konrad investigates three major transportation projects involving public transit and use of space issues in the Atlanta area: the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the bus and rail system that has been the backbone of metropolitan Atlanta's public transportation system for the past thirty years; the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), a superagency created in 1999 to address air quality issues in the region; and the Belt Line, a popular proposal to build a twenty-two-mile loop of greenspace, transit, and other amenities around an inner loop of the city on existing rail beds. She reveals how gridlock, over regional transportation policy and procedures, has emerged out of the competition between growth promoters, environmentalists, and social justice actors.