How Well Does the Traffic System Protect Transit from Congestion? Measuring Route-Level Costs That Congestion Imposes on Transit Operators and Users

Table 4

Congestion impacts on ten routes.

Route	Passengers (1000/y)	running time impact ($1000/y)	recovery time impact ($1000/y)	riding time impact ($1000/y)	wait + buffer impact ($1000/y)	Total ($1000/y)	Cost per passenger
1	4,055	801	414	2,297	3,738	7,249	$ 1.79
23	3,714	913	283	2,107	3,102	6,405	$ 1.72
28	4,362	789	303	2,387	4,269	7,749	$ 1.78
39.3	4,024	971	358	2,654	3,383	7,366	$ 1.83
66.6	4,008	1,051	118	3,427	3,525	8,121	$ 2.03
77	2,271	660	225	1,058	2,116	4,058	$ 1.79
89	508	149	66	187	450	853	$ 1.68
89.2	673	88	112	147	531	877	$ 1.30
99.7	431	132	56	147	118	453	$ 1.05
9	1,867	360	270	613	1,112	2,354	$ 1.26
Total	25,914	5,914	2,205	15,023	22,343	45,484	$ 1.76