Peak Hour Passenger Ridership on Metrorail
More than two-thirds of daily ridership occurs during the morning and evening peak periods. In fact, the peak ridership is a key determinant to Metro’s operating plan and future system planning efforts. An assessment of peak passenger ridership allows Metro to locate areas of current and future peak-period passenger crowding, and then plan to develop and fund capital projects aimed at addressing these capacity-constrained locations.
In 2009, Metro’s Office of Long Range Planning developed a tool to estimate passenger ridership on individual rail segments based on the station-to-station origin-destination data in the ridership database. The tool approximates passenger volume by peak hour and period. Then we use GIS to map the link-level passenger volumes.
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