The Daily Collegian ‘Vednesday, Sept. 3, 1986
High speed rail:
Survey says 5 to 8 million riders by year 2000
By JANE KOPACKI
Collegian Staff Writer
The Pennsylvania High Speed
Rail Commission's ridership sur
vey results are in and reactions of
confidence and international praise
will allow the commission to contin
ue its feasibility study, commission
spokesman Dan Cupper said.
The survey's results, released in
July, show that a projected 5 mil
lion to 8 million passengers will use
the high speed rail system annually
by the year 2000, Cupper said, in
comparison with the current
ridership figures of 1 million pas
sengers a year for Amtrak.
The proposed rail system, which
will run through State College and
cost about $lO billion, would allow
passengers to travel from Philadel
phia to Pittsburgh in two hours.
That trip now takes more than
seven hours.
The survey was distributed in
May ,and June of 1985 to 25,538
passengers, aboard airlines and
Amtrak trains, in the Philadelphia-
Harrisburg-Pittsburgh corridor.
Turnpike motorists were also
among those surveyed. The survey
received a 35 percent response,
considered high by any survey stan
dard, Cupper said.
"( Pennsylvania's) is the most
extensive survey ever conducted in
the country and has received praise
from the world," said Richard A.
Geist, Pennsylvania state represen
tative and chairman of the interna
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The release of the second phase of
the commission's three-phase study
includes statistics from the U.S.
Bureau of the Census and the Com
merce Department. Results of the
objective origin -destination travel
habits survey are also included,
Cupper said. He said the results
indicate that the. continued study of
a high-speed rail is justified. The
commission has already begun
work on the Phase 3 report.
The third and final phase, to be
released next year, will include
studies on the financial, economic
and legislative impact of a high
speed rail in the state, Cupper said.
The study is important to the entire
feasibility picture in that it will
explain the amount of employment,
as well as the amounts of taxes and
revenue, the rail system will add to
the state's market.
"With the incredible response we
received, the results are very valid
and accurate," he said, adding that
the numbers are fairly conserva
tive.
"The study was geared to finan
cial markets as well as the public
eye," Geist, R- Altoona, said.
Cupper said the survey was nec
esgary in projecting the feasibility
of a rail system because the last
significant transportation study in
Pennsylvania was completed in
1963.
"We are attempting to interest
investors, and investors need cur-
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Three estimates of ridership on the proposed high speed rail line were
calculated: a low estimate, a "most probable" scenario, and high estimate.
rent data to even consider such a
project," Cupper said.
Cupper said the study, which in
cluded an objective survey and a
subjective interview process, was
conducted professionally and was
not disguised as a public relations
gimmick.
To participate in the interview,
the traveler must have traveled at
least 50 miles in the Philadelphia-
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during the preceding year, Cupper
said.
A survey on the proposed high
speed rail conducted in Ohio
boasted a high response also, said
Paul H. Reistrup of R.L. Banks &
Associates, Inc. in Washington,
D.C. The vice president of the con
sulting firm added that Ohio's sur
vey method was considerably
different from Pennsylvania's. He
said that in the Ohio method, state
troopers pulled motorists over on
the highways to distribute and col
lect surveys.
"Once the motorists realized they
weren't getting a ticket for doing
something wrong, of course they
would be cooperative and respond
positively to the survey," Reistrup
said.
Cupper said the interview process
was conducted in a "blind fashion."
Random volunteers for the inter
view process were screened care
fully to insure they were not biased.
The questions posed to travelers in
both the survey and interview proc
esses were questions about aspects
of traveling that were most impor
tant to a frequent traveler.
Among the subjects investigated
in the study were socioeconomic
conditions at the departure and
destination sites of the traveler and
attitudes on safety, reliability, se
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