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[[File:Portland Bus Stop.jpg|thumb|right|300px|This bus stop in Portland, Ore., provides amenities like shelter. Photo by Flickr user Jason McHuff.]]
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Revision as of 00:12, 8 March 2012

Introduction

This bus stop in Portland, Ore., provides amenities like seating and shelter from the elements. Photo by Flickr user Jason McHuff.


Certain low cost strategies, such as real-time arrival and routing information, attractive waiting areas, universal fare media, marketing/perception influence, and other low-cost measures can cost-effectively increase ridership by improving the transit experience.

The out-of-vehicle waiting experience plays a critical role in an individual’s willingness to use transit for their traveling needs. A pleasant walk to and wait at a transit stop can add value to the transit experience, while time spent in a dirty, loud or unsafe environment is perceived to be much more costly that time spent in-vehicle.

Strategies

Real-time arrival and routing information

Attractive and more secure waiting areas

Improvement to the quality of pedestrian network