MEASURING IMPACTS OF TRANSIT FINANCING POLICY IN GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT: MONTREAL CASE

Redistributive effects of transportation networks are difficult to appreciate with traditional models. Specifically, in a geopolitical context, such as the Montreal case in which the transit fare deficits are absorbed by local municipalities, there is a substantial disparity between funding allocations based on where riders live versus where they use the transit system. The actual research project suggests a new methodology articulated on processing origin and destination survey data with a totally disaggregate approach. The method calculates, for every transit line and bus route, transit consumption in terms of passenger kilometers traveled by respective municipality residents. A spreadsheet is then developed for allocation of costs and revenues against a suitable measure of direct benefits within a multinetwork, multimodal, and multi-institutional framework. In the Montreal context, economic distortions (typically, suburban riders being subsidized by the core city residents) have been observed with the studied (1987) fare-subsidy structure.

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• Authors:
  • Chapleau, Robert
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 52-58
• Monograph Title: Public transportation 1995: current research in planning, management, technology, and ridesharing
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1496
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefits; Case studies; Central business districts; Cities; Cities and towns; Cost allocation; Disaggregate analysis; Financing; Impacts; Origin and destination; Policy; Public transit; Spreadsheets; Suburbs
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fund allocations
• Geographic Terms: Montreal (Canada)
• Old TRIS Terms: Central city; Passenger kilometers
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00714920
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309061741
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 15 1995 12:00AM