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.
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Corporate Authors:
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA United States 94720-1720University of California, Berkeley
California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA United States 94804-4648California 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
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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