Project Overview The purpose of this document is to improve To improve the understanding of ridership, the understanding of ridership to facilitate this document will address the following topic fairer comparisons and evaluations of transit areas: performance. [...] Ridership Overview At its core, ridership is a measurement of In Canada, the concept of ridership is passenger usage through tracking the commonly interpreted as linked trips, a number of trips provided by public standard largely established by CUTA’s data transportation. [...] As such, when used by different levels of Canadian ridership often underpins the calculation of government to allocate and justify the public other key performance indicators, essential for funding of transit, despite criticisms regarding assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the fairness and accuracy of this approach. [...] each transit agency that participates in Some systems view time-based transfers as providing service to the passenger is eligible to a time limited transit pass due to passengers count that as a linked trip for their own agency taking advantage of unlimited transfers to regardless of the transfer. [...] Actual vs Reported Ridership When benchmarking ridership between transit Ridership calculation methods are intended systems, it is important to consider that the to track as accurately as possible how many differences in ridership figures may be due to passenger trips are provided by public transit.
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