Glossary, Homework, and Transit Problems
Urban Mass Transit Project
A portfolio of the work we have accomplished throughout the course is displayed here in this section. Take a look around!
The content is ordered as such:
Transit Textbook
Homework 1 - Car vs. Transit Accessibility
Homework 2 - Transit Agencies: Budgets and Driverless Trains
Homework 3 - Memo on the California High-Speed Rail Project
Homework 4 - Los Angeles Metro Ridership Data
Homework 5 - Comparing 12/2020 and 12/2021 Transit Ridership
Homework 6 - California HSR Analysis Figure 2 Reorganization
Homework 7 - Three Terrorist Attacks and Relation to D.C. Metro
Homework 8 - The Transit Problems
Homework 1
Car vs. Transit Work Accessibility Graph and Data
The class was given data related to the difference in access to work opportunities when driving vs. taking transit. The data was taken apart and organized separately so the comparisons could be made clear. This was done by displaying the information on the same graph.
Homework 2
Budgets, Operating Costs, and Driverless Train Predicitions for Transit Agencies
Major transit agencies in the United States such as BART, LA Metro, MTA, and more are compared with one another. Their yearly budgets, operation and maintenance, and labor costs were identified. The percentage of labor costs to total operating expenses is discovered to show what would happen to the fare recovery ratio if labor costs were reduced and what transit agency would be most likely to adopt driverless trains on their systems.
Homework 3
Memo on the California High-Speed Rail Project
This memo describes the informational and supporting documents of the California High Speed Rail Business Plan. Tables of the ridership, greenhouse, revenue, and other data for the project are displayed in the informational document. However, most of the data cannot be found in the supporting documents, making the Business Plan hard to understand and misleading. Airlines and buses are hardly mentioned because they are the major competition of the project once the Los Angeles to San Francisco portion is completed.
Homework 4
Los Angeles Metro Ridership Data
The yearly and four month rolling average for the Estimated Weekday Ridership Projections for all LA Metro lines are looked into. Trends, seasonality, and ridership projections are identified. Results conclude that grouping can be difficult in LA Metro's case, since many of the lines are too new for enough data. However, taking the average of the best and worst months can be used to create ridership bounds.
Homework 5
Comparisons Between December 2020 and December 2021 Transit Ridership
Ridership data from December 2020 and December 2021 was collected for transit agencies in the United States ranging from big to small. This was done to show how the COVID-19 pandemic effected public transportation. The results concluded that there was an increase in ridership in this time period. It also became evident that some transit agencies do not reveal their ridership data to the public or have data that is completely misleading.
Homework 6
California HSR Analysis Figure 2 Reorganization
A figure on the End Use Energy Consumption and GHG Emissions in relation to Passenger Equivalences was given to the class. However, the graph was extremely difficult to understand so the task was to reorganize the information to make it more presentable. Using the data, two tables, the Energy Consumption Occupancy Equivalencies for All Modes and GHG Emissions Occupancy Equivalencies for All Modes, were created using the breakeven points of the original graph. The two tables were additionally shown as separate graphs.
Homework 7
Three Terrorist Attacks and Their Relation to the Washington D.C. Metro System
Through multiple articles and a worldwide terrorist attack data document, three terrorist attacks were discovered to compare with how D.C. Metro could prepare for such a situation. The attacks mentioned are the 2015 Thalys attack, 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing, and 2017 Parsons Green bombing. All situations show Washington D.C. Metro how increasing security and educating passengers is vital.