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Title: Senior and Disabled Reduced Fare Cards: A Peer Review of Policies
Accession Number: 01479126
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: The federal regulations that establish senior citizen and disabled reduced fare programs do not specify how those programs are to be structured. As a result, transit agencies across the nation vary widely in their reduced fare policies. This variation offers an excellent opportunity for transit systems to learn from each other’s experience and to mix and match approaches to best meet their needs. This paper, for the first time, provides a systematic consideration of reduced fare policies at major transit agencies. This research combines the findings of a structured, open-ended survey with information gleaned from transit agency websites to present a framework for understanding the key components of a reduced fare card program. These components are then illustrated by the breadth of approaches taken by the largest transit systems in the ten most populous metropolitan areas in the United States.
Supplemental Notes: This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP030 Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01470560
Report/Paper Numbers: 13-5311
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Newmark, Gregory LPagination: 26p
Publication Date: 2013
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Finance; Policy; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-5311
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Feb 5 2013 1:00PM
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