02-20-2019, 01:33 AM
Typically transit will be cheaper than driving but peoples' cost accounting is different because car costs are pretty hidden (until they're not, eg car repair bills).
Transit is also typically slower in most cases, except when trying to get to heavily contended destinations as in Spokes' example. I don't think we have a lot of such destinations in the region. The universities might be closest to that.
I was reading about, I think, Seattle. Employees who have to pay $12/day to park will shift their modal share to transit. It has to be billed on a per day basis though. Apparently we don't account for monthly bills. Maybe that would work at the universities too.
Transit is also typically slower in most cases, except when trying to get to heavily contended destinations as in Spokes' example. I don't think we have a lot of such destinations in the region. The universities might be closest to that.
I was reading about, I think, Seattle. Employees who have to pay $12/day to park will shift their modal share to transit. It has to be billed on a per day basis though. Apparently we don't account for monthly bills. Maybe that would work at the universities too.