Characteristics of Transit-Friendly Cities
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2016-05
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University of Delaware
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This thesis analyzes the relationships among the built environment, socioeconomics, and transit system attributes with respect to transit ridership in the 96 most populated urban areas in the United States. It concludes that the relative importance of these characteristics varies amongst several different types of city. After gathering extensive data on these characteristics for each of the 96 cities, a factor analysis, a cluster analysis, and a regression analysis were conducted to reveal patterns in the data. The analysis showed that the data could be grouped into underlying input and environment factors. These factors are used to identify like cities using cluster analysis. The thesis is divided into five sections: introduction, literature review, methodology, results, and conclusion.
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civil engineering, cities, transit