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Dissertation
Social Mode Shifts A Socio-Spatial Case of Encouraging Transit Ridership
2025
Overview
Balancing efficacy and utilization of public transit is a complex endeavor urban planners inevitably must study when attempting to create more equitable and sustainable transport systems in any city. As Austin embarks on Project Connect, while simultaneously grappling with extreme real estate costs and displacement, more attention needs to be paid as to how we balance providing adequate transit to those who need it with the need to increase ridership to support the new system. Neighborhoods in Central Austin are at a tipping point in terms of gentrification. Long-time residents are being displaced at an unprecedented rate in favor of the upper-middle class—a phenomenon that typical measures to increase transit ridership often accelerate. Many contemporary solutions that aim to increase ridership are completely reliant on forced stabilization of affordability by policy measures. While policy initiative can in the short-term address the issues at hand, long-term affordability and sustainability across fluctuating political cycles make it unreliable.This report serves as an inquiry into urban dynamics and frameworks of increasing ridership to identify what are viable frameworks that encourage the utilization of transit and respond to the vulnerabilities of urban neighborhoods already experiencing displacement. It argues that investment in well-tailored social and care infrastructures adjacent to transit stops that address urban inequities can advance placemaking and therefore restrain gentrification. This strategic spatial positioning of essential social infrastructure and coordinated care programming encourages trip-chaining and subsequently activates the transit rider base. Outlined here within is a socially-oriented procedural toolbox to increasing public transit ridership while limiting the negative impacts of potential transit-oriented gentrification—to serve as a foundation each community can build from, not as a superimposition.
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ISBN
9798270234515
