This research, underpinned by work conducted by the renowned Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota, shows how these transit improvements (using
several potential scenarios) could positively impact job access for Tampa Bay residents.
Researchers compared transit coverage and frequency to location-based data for workers and jobs in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The difference between the number of jobs accessible under each scenario, and the number of jobs accessible in the baseline of current transit service, is the primary unit of analysis and performance outlined in this report.
This research differentiates itself from more typical analyses conducted in conjunction with transit planning in several ways, but most importantly in that it takes a system-wide approach across multiple operators, treating the region as a market rather than a collection of individual communities.
