BART A-Line Strategic Stations Assessment

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)

San Francisco Bay Area, California

March 2005

to

November 2005

BART commissioned a study to consider the potential for increasing transit ridership along its “A-Line” corridor,

which includes nine stations running from Lake Merritt to Fremont. Specifically, BART was interested in

enhancing ridership through a coordinated policy of encouraging transit-oriented development and shifting access

mode share away from the single-occupant vehicle. Strategic Economics provided assistance to a team of

consultants including ARUP, Nelson\Nygaard, and Fehr and Peers.

In the first phase of work, Strategic Economics provided information on current and future potential demand for

transit-oriented housing and employment along this corridor, and assisted with developing methodologies for

looking at each station area in greater detail, in terms of Census block-level population and employment

projections. In addition, Strategic Economics assisted with forming criteria to identify those stations along the

BART A-Line that are appropriate for more intensive residential and/or commercial development, and developing

strategies for encouraging such development.