NO FARE AND LOW-FARE TRANSIT: AN EVALUATION OF THEIR FEASIBILITY AND POTENTIAL IMPACT IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

An evaluation of the potential benefits and disadvantages of a free or low fare public transportation system considers the feasibility of implementing such a system in the San Francisco Bay area, and reviews the likely economic, social and political impact of such a program. Reviews are made of other experiments with no fare or low fare, with an evaluation of their applicability to the Bay Area. The report includes alternatives or complements to no or low fare transit and reviews financing alternatives.

• Corporate Authors:

  Metropolitan Transportation Commission

  Hotel Claremont
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94705
• Authors:
  • Lovelock, C
  • Twichell, J
• Publication Date: 1973-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 93 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Bus lines; Economics; Evaluation; Fares; Financing; Free fares; Passenger transportation; Public transit; Rapid transit; Reviews; Urban transportation
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Experimental design
• Geographic Terms: California; San Francisco Bay Area
• Old TRIS Terms: Applicability; Low fare transit systems; No fare transit systems; Substitutes
• Subject Areas: Economics; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00050742
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: MTC-TF-73-01 Final Rpt, UMTA-CA-09-0020
• Files: NTIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 2003 12:00AM