Extreme Heat Impacts on Public Transit Use

The Field Lab partnered with the City of Phoenix to examine how extreme heat affects public transit usage and travel behavior.

Project Partner

City of Phoenix, Arizona
Public Transit Department

Project Partner

Students worked with transit data and climate information to analyze ridership patterns under extreme heat conditions and to update an existing transit propensity model.

Areas of Focus

The team examined relationships between temperature and transit ridership, spatial and temporal ridership variation during extreme heat events, mitigation-related considerations, and updates to transit propensity modeling assumptions.

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