ABSTRACT
The choice between public and private transportation is an individual decision that is influenced by government/community decisions. These decisions often send mixed signals (e.g. ‘use transit’; ‘we’re trying to reduce traffic congestion to ease your automobile driving’) to transit and potential transit passengers while failing to recognize their more system-wide, integrated implications. Chapter 13 facilitates an understanding of the importance of service-connectivity elements in enhancing existing or new transit services. One such element is the design of an integrated, smart feeder/shuttle service. Such a service may stem, for instance, from the need to overcome the problem of an excessive number of automobiles arriving and parking at a train station, resulting in high parking demand around the station. The purpose of this chapter is to examine an innovative feeder/shuttle system that will comply with (i) passengers’ needs and desires, (ii) intelligent transportation technologies, and (iii) an agency’s viability. After all, a solution for being transported by a door-to-door service is the mother of attraction.
