ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN JOBS AND TRANSIT IN TAMPA BAY

COMPETITIVENESS RANKINGS In their report “Access Across America: Transit 2018,” University of Minnesota Accessibility Observatory researchers ranked large US metros in terms of job access via transit. This report shows that Tampa Bay ranks 15th out of the 20 markets identified in the Regional Competitiveness Report. However, with implementation of the Regional Transit Vision, Tampa Bay would jump to 9th place on that list. We can use this same report to see how Tampa Bay fares against 49 other metro areas in the U.S. Currently ranked 41st, Tampa Bay would move to 27th.

FUTURE STATE

CURRENT STATE Portland

Portland

Denver

Seattle

Baltimore

San Antonio

Austin

Mpls-St. Paul

San Diego

Charlotte

#9 Tampa Bay

Phoenix

Charlotte

Raleigh-Durham

Phoenix

South Florida

Raleigh-Durham

Jacksonville

South Florida

St. Louis

Jacksonville

#15 Tampa Bay

St. Louis

Nashville

Orlando

Houston

Dallas-Ft. Worth

Atlanta

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ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN JOBS AND TRANSIT IN TAMPA BAY

Published on Feb 19, 2021

Tampa Bay Partnership

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.

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ORIGIN AND NEED

COMPETITIVENESS RANKINGS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

KEY FINDINGS