Research Article
Jul 1978
Effects of BART on Work Journeys in the Bay Area
Authors: Alistair Sherret and Joel MarkowitzAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 104, Issue 4
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This paper analyzes work journey patterns in the Bay Area before and since the 71-mile BART began service, and assesses BART-provided improvements in transit accessibility to employment centers. Current journey-to-work BART ridership is analyzed as a share of the total journey-to-work travel market, both areawide and in the key transbay commute corridor between San Francisco and Oakland. BART now serves 135,000 one-way trips each weekday, two-thirds of these to and from work. BART's share of area-wide work trips is only about 5%, and since half of BART's ridership has come from bus, the impact on the overall automobile/transit modal split has been small. However, BART has been more successful in the travel market it was primarily designed to serve: long-distance commute trips from the suburbs to the central cities. BART carries 27% of all work trips from residences in the BART service area taking 35 min or more.
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Transportation Engineering Journal of ASCE
Volume 104 • Issue 4 • July 1978
Pages: 423 - 436
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© 1978 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jul 1978
Published online: Feb 5, 2021
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Alistair Sherret
Sr. Consultant, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., San Francisco, Calif.
Joel Markowitz
Asst. Project Mgr., BART Impact Program, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Berkeley, Calif.
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