老司机直播 researchers find big improvements to TTC commutes on King Street pilot route
Published: December 5, 2017
老司机直播 researchers have from the King Street pilot project鈥檚 first two weeks in operation and found big improvements to travel times for TTC commuters along the city鈥檚 busiest streetcar routes.
The pilot, which began on November 12, aims to reduce car traffic by only allowing motorists to drive one block on a 2.6 kilometre stretch of King Street before forcing them to turn right, giving priority to streetcars, which transport over 65,000 passengers per day.
鈥淭he main result is that travel times have been improved by about four to five minutes during the rush hour period and that鈥檚 for trips that start on one side of the pilot project and continue through to the end of the pilot project,鈥 Steven Farber, an assistant professor in the department of human geography at 老司机直播 Scarborough told CP24.
Farber is also the co-director of , which conducted the research on the King Street pilot.
Farber and researchers from the lab analyzed TTC GPS data from before and after the pilot was implemented. Among their findings: Before the pilot, 19 per cent of trips during the evening peak (4-7 pm) took longer than 25 minutes, compared to just 1.3 per cent after the pilot launched.
鈥淔rom a transit perspective, and an operational perspective, the pilot is achieving, I think, the goal of providing a much faster and reliable transit route to tens of thousands of people daily,鈥 Farber told the Toronto Star.
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