Setting a Fair-Fare Structure for Improved Transit Passengers' Accessibility

In transit planning, accessibility “to” (i.e. access to transit) and “through” transit (i.e. geographical coverage of transit) are considered as important service quality indicators (Beimborn et al., 2003; Handy and Clifton, 2001; Murray and Wu, 2003). Typically, travel time (or distance) is used as a measure for accessibility “through” transit. In recent studies, researchers pointed out that transit fare could be an obstacle to accessibility. For example, El-Geneidy (2016) suggested that travel cost (i.e. the transit fare one pays) would also influence accessibility through transit. In addition, a more recent study suggested that an increase in transit flat fare would result in a loss in accessibility. Such loss was found to be inversely proportional to the length of the trips (i.e. substantial for short trips and unworthy for long trips), which can be considered “unfair” for short-trip users (Ma et al., 2017). This study expands on Ma et al. (2017) and constructs a fair-fare structure for improved passengers’ accessibility. It is assumed that a transit agency needs to introduce a new fare policy that will cover its increasing capital and operating costs. A pre-determined loss of accessibility is set for all short, medium, and long trips; and a new fare structure is established accordingly. The City of Kelowna, BC, is selected as a case study.

• Record URL:
  http://ctrf.ca/?page_id=4419
• Corporate Authors:

  Canadian Transportation Research Forum

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• Authors:
  • Ma, Zhuanglin
  • Rahman, MN
  • Idris, AO
• Conference:
  • Canadian Transportation Research Forum 52nd Annual Conference - Canadian Transportation: 150 Years of Progress//Les transports au Canada : 150 ans de progrès - Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 28-31, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 1 PDF file, 255 KB, 6p.
• Monograph Title: Canadian Transportation Research Forum 52nd Annual Conference - Canadian Transportation: 150 Years of Progress//Les transports au Canada : 150 ans de progrès - Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 28-31, 2017

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Conferences; Financing; Length; Mathematical analysis; Public transit; Tariffs; Travel; Variables
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 8018: Canada; 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 244: Financing; 698: Journey; 6488: Length; 744: Public transport; 241: Tariff; 9086: Variability
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01678288
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Aug 22 2018 1:42PM