[CTPP] [Fwd: Re: "The Truth About Transit", Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2002]

Here is a colleague of mine challenging the validity of the 2000 Census data on transit ridership. I am not a statistician and have no way of assessing the soundness of his claims. Can anybody help me? Ken Orski -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: "The Truth About Transit", Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2002 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:48:00 -0400 From:"Tom Downs" <tdowns(a)ursp.umd.edu> To: <korski(a)erols.com> C Kenneth Orski wrote: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.transit12jul12.story?c… ======================= I would be glad to ponder the following:The survey data, census long form, is increasingly viewed as biased in its results (response rates of less than 20% in many regions, language biased in an age of immigrants, poverty biased, and generally reflective of a white middle class data set)The data does not reflect the fact that journey to work is about 20% of trips and declining. Do we care about the explosion in "other trips" and transit's role in them? We also have no clue as to what is happening to pedestrian trips...Tom Downs ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ##### ##### ##### ################################################################# ################################################################# #################################################################