Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Transit Smart Cards

This study focuses on the costs and benefits of smart card systems and offers a framework for conducting a proper transit smart card cost benefit analysis. Using the proposed framework, the authors found that individual transit operators and multiple agencies bear the majority of the deployment costs, while transit users and individual operators reap most of the smart card benefits. Case studies are presented on how transportation agencies in three metropolitan areas evaluated smart card systems: the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Los Angeles Country Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) in Los Angeles, and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in the greater Philadelphia area.

• Record URL:
  https://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3A%2F13030%2Fm5jd4xwt/2/producer%2FPRR-2008-14.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1720

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Authors:
  • Iseki, Hiroyuki
  • Demisch, Alexander
  • Taylor, Brian D
  • Yoh, Allison C
• Publication Date: 2008-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 15p
• Serial:
  • PATH Research Report
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 1055-1425

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Benefits; Costs; Evaluation; Fares; Public transit; Smart cards
• Identifier Terms: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority; Metropolitan Transportation Commission (California); Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
• Geographic Terms: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area; Philadelphia Metropolitan Area; San Francisco Bay Area
• Subject Areas: Finance; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01115689
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PRR-2008-14
• Contract Numbers: TO 6108
• Files: CALTRANS, TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 29 2008 8:07AM