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Evaluating Transit and Driving Disaggregated Commutes through GTFS in ArcGIS
By
Federico Tallis
Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF SCIENCE
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
May 2014
Copyright 2014 Federico Tallis
Object Description
| Title | Evaluating transit and driving disaggregated commutes through GTFS in ArcGIS |
| Author | Tallis, Federico |
| Author email | federico.tallis@gmail.com;Federico.tallis@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Geographic Information Science and Technology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2014-05-29 |
| Date submitted | 2014-08-08 |
| Date approved | 2014-08-08 |
| Restricted until | 2014-08-08 |
| Date published | 2014-08-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kemp, Karen K. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Vos, Robert O. Dessouky, Maged M. |
| Abstract | This research implements an additive travel cost model to calculate and compare the perceived cost of commuting by transit and driving at a disaggregated level. The model uses open source General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data and “Yay Transit!,” an ArcGIS tool developed by Melinda Morang and Patrick Stevens of Esri, to create a transit network for the Washington DC metropolitan area. Departure sensitive route paths and travel times on transit are solved through the Route Tool of the ArcGIS Network Analyst Extension and compared to travel data calculated using Waze for driving between similar origins and destinations. Additional travel cost components are plugged into additive cost formulas designed to resemble the mode choice modeling formulas created by MWCOG (Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments) in order to compare the perceived cost of one mode over the other. ❧ Results from this model suggest that taking transit is in general less cost effective than driving for even some of the most transit advantageous commutes. Transportation Demand Management opportunities to most effectively “balance” the perceived cost of transit and driving are identified through assessing variable sensitivity of the additive formula. This research provides a methodology that could be reproduced in mass in order to gauge the complex interconnectivity of an urban transportation network. The author suggests hosting this information in an online tool which will assist government and the public in understanding the cost effectiveness of transit versus driving for any given commute situation. |
| Keyword | GTFS; transit; travel demand management; TDM; disaggregated travel cost; ArcGIS; Yay Transit! |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Tallis, Federico |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-TallisFede-2794.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-TallisFede-2794.pdf |
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| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | Evaluating Transit and Driving Disaggregated Commutes through GTFS in ArcGIS By Federico Tallis Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY May 2014 Copyright 2014 Federico Tallis |
