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Updating and Expanding LRT/BRT/SCT/CRT Data and Analysis

项目名称：	Updating and Expanding LRT/BRT/SCT/CRT Data and Analysis
摘要：	This project will update and expand the project's station area databases (developed under previous National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) contracts 547, 650, and 763) to include new systems added since the late 2000s and more metropolitan areas. Under prior NITC contracts, the NTIC built station area databases for 12 light rail transit (LRT) systems, nine bus rapid transit (BRT) systems, four streetcar transit (SCT), and five commuter rail transit (CRT) systems. The project included employment data extending annually from 2002 through 2011, and census data for 2000 and 2010. The analysis compared development, demographic and housing outcomes associated with these transit systems during the period before the Great Recession (2000 through 2007) and during recession into recovery (2008 through 2011). Two final reports, several press interviews including one press conference in DC plus several webinars, and nearly 20 papers have been published, accepted for publication, or are in review. Though the principal investigator found important differences in outcomes between the study periods of 2000-2007 and 2008-2011, this research could not measure or compare outcomes during the period of economic stability that commenced about 2012. The project thus proposes to update and analyze those databases to 2015. This will allow the project to compare outcomes associated with these transit systems before (2000-2007), during (2008-2011) and after (2012-2015) the Great Recession. Moreover, since some LRT and streetcar systems as well as most BRT systems did not start until well into the 2000s (some during the Great Recession), the updated database will allow for more comprehensive assessment of outcomes between the Great Recession and early recovery into the period of relative economic stability. Using newly released Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing affordability data, we will include a new area of research associating transit station proximity to variations in median household transportation costs. Though we will apply these updated and expanded data to the methods we developed for earlier studies, and new ones, a key benefit of the databases and shape files is that will make them available freely through NITC to enable other researchers to conduct micro-level analysis as well as in-depth longitudinal and comparative analyses that the project team have not. The project anticipates this will be a valuable contribution to future research by academics, students, policy analysts, and transit organizations.
状态：	Active
资金：	130738
资助组织：	Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
管理组织：	TREC at Portland State University
项目负责人：	Hagedorn, Hau
执行机构：	University of Arizona
主要研究人员：	Nelson, Arthur Chris
开始时间：	20170901
预计完成日期：	20190630
实际结束时间：	20191101