Today we have a guest post from Tom Rubin.
Dane County, Wisconsin has formed a Transport 2020 task force that is trying to obtain federal funding for a commuter-rail line in Madison. During a recent meeting, a consultant “reviewed the FTA’s recent decision to include “perceived†rail advantages into ridership forecasting and modeling. This allows forecasters to quantify the quality of service for rail travel time, rail headways, and the attractiveness of rail, and include that in the ridership model.”
The problem is, this is not what the FTA actually said.
