Ticket to ride: reforming fares and ticketing for sustainable public transport

The advent of smartcard ticketing in the late 1990s offered the potential for large scale fares and ticketing policy reform. Observed progress has been slow in Australia which reflects the range of difficult policy trade-offs associated with such reform. This report seeks to explore these policy trade-offs and associated customer behaviour to allow fares and ticketing policy reform to play its role in maximising the social return on public transport.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ttf.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/TTF-Ticket-to-Ride-Fare-and-ticketing-Paper.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Tourism and Transport Forum

  Level 6, 7 Macquarie Place, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
  Sydney, New South Wales   
• Authors:
  • King, D
  • Streeting, M
• Publication Date: 2016-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 73p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Consumer behavior; Fare collection; Passengers; Payment; Policy; Public transit; Smart cards; Sustainable development; Tariffs
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ATRI Terms: Consumer behaviour; Fare collection; Passenger; Policy; Public transport; Smart card
• ITRD Terms: 1146: Passenger transport; 744: Public transport
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01623006
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 24 2017 12:30PM