[TRU Research] PSRC data project

[Tom Chartrand]

Hi all, regarding the PSRC survey, I'd signed on to take a look at it but
have been letting this all slip for a while, sorry! This mention is good
reason to actually get on that.
I took a quick look and there's a nice summary in  Regional Travel Survey
2017 Story: Employer Benefits, Parking and Transit
<https://www.psrc.org/sites/default/files/travel-survey-story-2017-employer-benefits.pdf>
"Lower income workers were less likely than higher income workers to be
offered free or subsidized transit, and less likely to use it when it was
offered"
I'll look into actually loading and diving into their data a bit. If anyone
has suggestions for more specific versions of this question than what they
show in the summary, let me know. The other "Travel Survey Stories" on
their website may also be worth taking a quick look at, they're nice
high-level summaries, with simple graphs.

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 8:08 AM Katie Wilson <katie at transitriders.org>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> On Monday I met with the Port of Seattle's Environmental Program manager
> working on ground transportation policy for SeaTac airport— which
> apparently has a horrendous drive-alone rate, by the way. He mentioned that
> the Puget Sound Regional Council’s survey data shows that lower-wage
> workers are less likely to get transit benefits through work. It would be a
> good mini-project someone could take on to look at PSRC’s 2017 Travel
> Survey data <https://www.psrc.org/household-travel-survey-program> to try
> to find that, plus any other info we think is relevant to our project.
>
> It’s probably useful for more than one person to look at the data, but if
> you’re going to pursue the transit benefits piece in particular, say
> something so we don’t duplicate efforts.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
> Katie Wilson
> General Secretary
> Transit Riders Union
> https://transitriders.org
> 206-781-7204
>
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