Local Street Design and Transit Accessibility

This book explores into people's dependence on informal neighborhoodtransit in their key role that connects between people's residences inside thelocal street network and mainline transit on the main road. The study arguesthat such dependence is influenced by the physical characteristics of the localstreet network and thus can be reduced by altering the local street characteristicsto facilitate walking as an alternative means of travel for transit accesstrips. Two local-street characteristics are considered trip distance andpedestrian route directness (the ratio of trip distance and straight-line distance).To investigate the relationships a nested logit model is estimatedusing the 2003 Bangkok Travel Survey dataset. The model results indicatethat trip distance negatively impacts pedestrian travel the most at a statisticallysignificant level. Therefore policies to reduce transit access trip distanceare likely to increase the likelihood of walking as opposed to using neighborhoodtransit services. In addition pedestrian route directness is used todetermine appropriate policy directions and target areas to improve transitaccessibility.