Do Cooperative Initiatives Improve Transit Performance? The Impact of Cooperation between Agencies on Transit Performance

• Main Author: Rooskens, Anne-Marie
• Format: Others
• Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2005
• Subjects: Transit agencies; Cooperation; Efficiency; Effectiveness
• Online Access: http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/279; http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1312&context=td

Ridership in the New Orleans region is down, and transit agencies are challenged to increase transit performance. Transit professionals expect many benefits from cooperation between transit systems in the region including an increase in efficiency and effectiveness. The question is "do these cooperative initiatives between transit agencies improve transit performance?" To answer this question a survey has been held to collect data regarding regional initiatives implemented by transit agencies. In addition data were collected from the transit agencies websites. The analysis focused on the comparison between agencies that implemented regional initiatives versus agencies that did not implement any regional initiative. From the analysis it appears that although agencies have implemented cooperative initiatives they are not very convinced that it had a significant impact on transit performance. Further, results show that cooperation might have some positive impact on transit performance, but are not as convincing as literature and transit professionals expect