New York City / Wednesday Oct 17,2018
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Bus Ridership in NYC

Lunch with Eric Goldwyn

Marron Institute of Urban Management 60 Fifth Avenue, 2nd floor New York, NY 10011

Bus ridership in New York is falling, fast. To stem the decline, there's a growing consensus that drastic changes to the network are required. As the MTA begins to redesign its bus networks borough by borough, Marron Institute Research Scholar Eric Goldwyn and Marron Institute Fellow Alon Levy took a look at the Brooklyn network in order to move from the principles they have read about and advocated for toward concrete designs. They are combining best industry practices (such as Barcelona's redesign, Nova Xarxa), published literature regarding stop spacing and network structure, and interviews with Brooklyn's bus drivers. In tackling this project, they have focused on different ways to speed up the bus and increase reliability.

In this talk, Eric will detail their network design process and reveal a proposed map that will increase the speed of buses within Brooklyn and allow for higher frequencies across the borough. It is only by improving the performance of the bus, both speed and reliability, that ridership will increase and that the bus will become a worthy transit option in the 21st century.

This event is open to NYU faculty, research staff, and gradtuate students. To RSVP please email marron.institute@nyu.edu. 

Speakers

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Eric Goldwyn
Program Director / Transportation and Land Use
Clinical Assistant Professor / NYU Marron Institute

Eric Goldywn is a program director at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Transportation and Land-Use program at the NYU Marron Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University. He teaches courses on urban planning and urban studies and his writing on cities and transportation technology has been published in academic journals and popular press outlets. Before starting this project, Eric and Alon worked together on a proposal to redesign Brooklyn’s Bus Network.