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What Can We Learn from On-Demand Transit Services for Ridership? A Case Study at the City of Regina, Canada

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Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2022 (CSCE 2022)

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The urgent need to optimize operational efficiency, boost ridership, enlarge effective communication technologies, and improve customer convenience has led to the emergence of on-demand transit (ODT) services. ODT can be advantageous in several ways, including reliability, improving mobility, cost-effectiveness, and reducing the need for multi-transit services. This paper analyzed the trip patterns of on-demand services and the impacts on ridership by the difference-in-difference method. The pattern analyses showed that the origin–destination flow patterns are concentrated in large commercial and dense residential areas with significantly reduced travel times including the waiting times and in-vehicle times. Furthermore, the difference-in-difference model analyses yielded positive relations between the ridership and the on-demand transit services for the overall transit network while the effects vary with specific landuse zones. Results indicated the potential of on-demand transit services to benefit passengers and ridership recovery during the pandemic and post-pandemic.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to express their thanks to editors and anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, and the City of Regina, Transit & Fleet Department for data resources and support. This research was partially supported by Faculty of Engineering Research Opportunities Fund at the University of Regina and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), [NSERC RGPIN-2022-05028 and DGECR-2022-00522].

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

    Yili Tang, Duha Abdullah & Adesola Adewuyi

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Yili Tang

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Yili Tang

  4. Transit and Fleet Department, City of Regina, Regina, Canada

    Nathan Luhning

  5. TransSIGHT LLC, California, USA

    Satinder Bhalla

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Rishi Gupta

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Min Sun

  3. Department of Earthquake Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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  4. The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada

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  5. University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada

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  6. Environmental Engineering Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada

    Jianbing Li

  7. The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Ashraf El Damatty

  8. Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Clark Lim

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Tang, Y., Abdullah, D., Adewuyi, A., Luhning, N., Bhalla, S. (2024). What Can We Learn from On-Demand Transit Services for Ridership? A Case Study at the City of Regina, Canada. In: Gupta, R., et al. Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2022. CSCE 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 359. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34027-7_49

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