Travel Behavior

Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Demonstration: BART Integrated Carpool to Transit Access Program, Final Report

Nabti, Jumana
2020

The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), and Scoop Technologies, Inc. (Scoop) partnered on a program to better integrate carpool access to public transit by matching transit passengers into carpools with a transit station as their destination using the carpool matching app Scoop and providing a seamless way to reserve and pay for highly-coveted parking spaces at BART stations. This report discusses how the project was developed and implemented and the project outcomes and lessons learned.

An Initial Assessment of the Potential Weather Barriers of Urban Air Mobility

Reiche, Colleen PhD
Cohen, Adam
Fernando, Chris
2021

Urban Air Mobility (UAM), a subset of advanced air mobility, is a concept that envisions safe, sustainable, affordable, and accessible air transportation for passenger mobility, cargo delivery, and emergency management within or traversing a metropolitan area. In recent years, several companies have designed and tested enabling elements of this concept, including; prototypes of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, operational concepts, and market studies to understand potential business models. While UAM may be enabled by the convergence of several factors, a number of barriers...

Advanced Air Mobility: Demand Analysis and Market Potential of the Airport Shuttle and Air Taxi Markets

Goyal, Rohit
Reiche, Colleen
Fernando, Chris
Cohen, Adam
2021

Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabling consumers access to on-demand air mobility, cargo and package delivery, healthcare applications, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network. However, a number of challenges could impact AAM’s growth potential, such as autonomous flight, the availability of take-off and landing infrastructure (i.e., vertiports), integration into airspace and other modes of transportation, and competition with shared automated vehicles. This article discusses the results of a demand analysis examining...

User Response to the Telephone Advisory Traveler Information System in the San Francisco Bay Area: Based on TravInfo Caller Survey Wave 1

Ygnace, Jean-Luc
Koo, Ronald
Yim, Youngbin
2000

This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted among callers of a San Francisco BayArea telephone information service. A Bay Area traveler information system, TravInfo, has beenin operation since September 1996. In April 1997, a survey of TravInfo callers was conductedover a two-week period. The paper compares the call making and demographic characteristics ofthose who asked for traffic information and of those who asked for transit information. Changesin travel behavior after the calls were made were also investigated. The key findings of the studywere that the people who called...