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467108-1 Report Abstract

Public Transit and Livable Communities: An Evaluation of the LCI Demonstration Project in Corpus Christi

Laura Higgins, Texas A&M University, August 1997, 61 pp. (467108-1)

As part of a project for the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC), the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) is monitoring the Corpus Christi RTA’s Livable Communities Initiative. TTI is evaluating the effects of the enhancements funded by the Initiative by conducting before and after studies of the neighborhoods surrounding Staples Street Station and Six Points, the two focal points of the LCI project.

TTI’s before evaluation included information from on-the-street surveys of pedestrians and transit riders; interviews with neighborhood business owners; and data on crime rates and transit ridership in these two neighborhoods.

Keywords: Transit, Planning, Community