SEQ Transfer Ratio

[#Metro]

It told us seniors and pensioners travelled mostly on two or three days of the week, rather than the five days a week of the working commuter. It told us 17.5 per cent of customers transfer onto another TransLink service within an hour of touching off.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/fares-are-fair-translink-boss-insists-20110302-1beqg.html#comments

[Jonno]

Homework tonight - seach for studies showing the link between high transfer rate and high transport usage!

[somebody]

At the CPTF, Chris Hale said it should be more like 60%.

A lot of transfers in SEQ I suggest are artificial and caused by the ridiculous city stop locations causing people to interchange at the Cultural Centre.

[#Metro]

page 85, Transport for Suburbia, P.MEES:

"The superiority of the transit network type with fewer, frequent lines relying on transfers over the network
with numerous, infrequent lines is demonstrated by the fact that cities with the highest transit riding habit
such as Boston, Paris, Toronto and Zurich, generally have transit systems with the highest transfer ratios"

- Vukan Vuchic, (Vuchic 1999, p209)

Transportation for Livable Cities – Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research, 1999;

[#Metro]

The question is... can Chris Hale (or anyone else) prove that there is a link/correlation between transfer ratio and ridership using data. (Unfortunately TL et al. don't publish this obscure statistic).

[Gazza]

The topic has me thinking, we could have a single topic where we can copy and paste all the interesting titbits we find about the network that come up in the media (Stats etc) so when it comes time to write press releases there is a single point of reference. The topic could also have links to latest and previous editions of 'published' statistics.