New research documents the distance between bus stops in U.S. cities—a key question for service designers that determines a lot about the public transit user experience.
The journal Findings (née Transport Findings) this week published research by Ayush Pandey, Lewis Lehe, and Dana Monzer that quantifies bus stop spacing in U.S. cities.
The research, available online, features a database of bus stop spacings for 43 U.S. cities, weighting each spacing by the number of times a bus traverses the distance. Of the cities evaluated in the study, Las Vegas' Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) has the widest mean spacing (482 m) and Philadelphia's Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) the narrowest (214 m).
According to the article's abstract, the research also compares spacings between the urban cores and more suburban locations within agencies' service areas.
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