Human-Use Analysis

I decided to do some research and take a look at some different aspects of the T.

There is no one single typical user of public transportation. In fact, a 2017 passenger demographics and travel study done by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) showed that there were many different people that use public transportation, although some similarities could be inferred. The APTA study showed that there was a wide variety of ages in users, although around 80% were of working age. Also, half of the transit riders had a vehicle available to them and about ⅔ had a driver’s license, so they had alternate methods of transportation to use. The majority of the riders use public transit to go to work, as can be seen in the figure to the right, and 50% use it five days a week. Also, the major reasons that users gave for using public transit were for convenience as opposed to driving, to save time, for cost saving, and because they had no alternative (no personal vehicle). Furthermore, it seems that a majority favor a pass medium for payment with only 11% of riders using cash for payment.