It is a fact of geometry that a great transit system, one that provides frequent service from everywhere to everywhere within a city, often requires people to get off one vehicle and onto another. The transfer, in short, is an inconvenient but necessary part of the transit product, and is thus a particular challenge for transit planning and marketing.
But we make the problem worse with the word transfer itself.
Human Transit is a blog about public transit planning and policy, by a consultant with 20 years experience in the field.
For more on the blog, its purpose, and its author, please see the welcome and manifesto.
Jarrett Walker is an international consultant in public transit network design and policy, based in Portland, Oregon. He has been a full-time consultant since 1991 and has led numerous major planning projects in cities and towns of all sizes, across North America, Australia, and New Zealand. He is also the author of Human Transit: How clearer thinking about public transit can enrich our communites and our lives (Island Press, 2011).
He is President of Jarrett Walker + Associates, a consulting firm that provides advice and planning services North America. He is also a Principal Consultant with MRCagney Australia.
Continue Reading →
All content on Human Transit is copyright Jarrett Walker.
All views expressed in blog posts and pages on this site are solely those of the author, Jarrett Walker, and do not necessarily reflect the views of any of his employers or clients, past or present.
Welcome. Let’s talk about public transit.
I’m Jarrett Walker, and this is my professional blog. Since 1991 I’ve been a consulting transit planner, helping to design
transit networks and policies for a huge range of communities. My goal here is to start conversations about how transit works, and how we can use it to create better cities and towns.
Continue Reading →