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Nothing matters as much to making transit useful and successful as population density. Every mile of transit costs money to build and operate. Fundamentally, the usefulness of that mile is a based on simple math: how many people will that mile of transit reach? A mile of route puts roughly a square mile of area within reach of transit. If 100 people live in that square mile, there are 100 potential transit riders; if 10,000 people live in that square, there are 10,000 potential transit riders.
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Spieler, C. (2018). Density. In: Trains, Buses, People. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-904-3_7
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