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Download or read book Key Determinants of Public Transportation Use Across Urbanized Areas in the United States written by Yuan Dong and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns over the mobility of people without private vehicles and the excessive growth of private vehicles have been increasing in recent years. To address such concerns, many cities are making efforts to encourage more transit use among commuters. This research studies what factors can influence transit ridership among commuters, which can help urban planners to improve transit services more efficiently and effectively with a better understanding of the determinants of transit use. I build a cross-sectional regression to study the importance of each independent variable in explaining the interregional variation of the percentage of workers who travel to work by public transit in 472 U.S. urbanized areas. The independent variables reflect both the supply of transit services (population density, total number of workers, transit service frequency, median income level, percentage of single-family housing, age of building stock in urbanized areas) and population characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity, language proficiency, poverty level).