Modeling the Effect of Central Bus Station Relocation on Accessibility to Intercity Bus Service

Intercity bus providers have recently closed a number of downtown bus stations. We consider station relocation as an inferential opportunity to explore changes in accessibility to intercity bus services. Our case study is Cleveland, OH where the downtown Greyhound station recently moved near the region’s major airport. Using data from metro-Cleveland, we modify an extant air travel metric to explore how access to intercity bus changes by local access mode in tandem with station relocation. We also note the severe data limitations facing intercity bus research and the need for new data to improve future work.