Smart Card Implementation and Equity: Chicago Transit Authority’s Ventra
The Federal Transit Authority (FTA) Title VI Circular requires service equity analyses that examine if major service changes disproportionately affect minority or low-income groups. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has announced an overhaul of its fare payment media system to be implemented in the summer of 2013 that is to affect most, if not all, CTA riders. Using the FTA Title VI Circular as a motivation, this paper examines current literature on benefits and issues of a smart card fare payment system and analyzes the relationship between minority and low income population groups adopting the current smart card offering in Chicago.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD50 Environmental Justice in Transportation.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Sung, Philip
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
- Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 22p
- Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Equity; Fares; Implementation; Low income groups; Minorities; Smart cards
- Identifier Terms: Chicago Transit Authority
- Geographic Terms: Chicago (Illinois)
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01520035
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2842
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 26 2014 10:13AM