Urban transport involves millions of individual travel decisions. Some are made
infrequently—where to take a job, to locate a home outside an area with transit service, or
to purchase a second car. Some decisions are made for every trip, through a two-step
thought process similar to that illustrated in Exhibit 5-2 and Exhibit 5-3.
The first step in the process is to decide whether or not transit is a possibility for the
trip. This step assesses the availability of transit service and is illustrated in Exhibit