Impacts of Rail Transit on the Performance of a Transportation System

摘要: This paper summarizes research on the effects of rail transit performance transportation systems in major U.S. cities. It results from study Rail Transit In America: Comprehensive Evaluation Benefits, which evaluates benefits basis comparison system finds that cities with larger, well-established have significantly higher per capita ridership, lower average vehicle ownership and mileage, less traffic congestion, death rates, consumer expenditures than otherwise comparable These findings indicate can provide a variety economic, social, environmental tend to increase as expands matures.