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A two-year Urban Mass Transportation Administration Service and Methods Demonstration (SMD) project in Danville, Illinois, tested the first application of the concept of the user-side subsidy to fixed-route transit for the general population. The Transportation Systems Center was responsible for evaluating the demonstration and contracted with Crain and Associates for this purpose. Service was provided by private contractors, who were selected on a competitive basis every four months. Payment to providers, which was based on the number of prepurchased tickets used by passengers to pay for rides and then turned over to the city, was intended to create an incentive for designing and providing good, efficient service tailored to the existing demand. The system, called the Runaround, proved workable but administratively expensive. Only two providers participated, which indicated a lack of effective competition, although on most routes good service appears to have been supplied at a reasonable cost. The major provider adopted a very conservative negotiating position; the result was that payment was effectively on a fixed-price rather than per-passenger basis. Although unproductive service was dropped under the user-side subsidy arrangement, a full test of the concept's effectiveness has yet to be considered. (Author)

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Cost effectiveness; Demonstration projects; Fixed routes; Operating costs; Operators (Persons); Subsidies; User benefits

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Danville (Illinois); Illinois

Economics; Finance; Highways; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration

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Oct 28 1982 12:00AM

• ALLOCATION OF BUS TRANSIT SERVICE
• AUTOMATION IN PUBLIC TRANSIT OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS. ABRIDGMENT
• CONCEPT OF TRANSPORTATION NEED REVISITED
• EFFECTS OF SMALL-SCALE TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS ON SAVING ENERGY
• ELASTICITY MEASURES OF BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE TO OFF-PEAK FREE-FARE TRANSIT
• EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE TRANSIT ROUTING CONFIGURATIONS IN A HYPOTHETICAL LOW-DENSITY AREA. ABRIDGMENT
• EVALUATION OF THE BARNSTABLE COUNTY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
• FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE LOCAL SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT EXPENDITURES. ABRIDGMENT
• INTEGRATED TRANSIT-NETWORK MODEL (INET): A NEW URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING SYSTEM PROGRAM
• NEAR-SIDE OR FAR-SIDE BUS STOPS: A TRANSIT POINT OF VIEW
• ORGANIZATION THEORY AND THE STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF TRANSIT AGENCIES. ABRIDGMENT
• STRATIFICATION APPROACH TO EVALUATION OF URBAN TRANSIT PERFORMANCE
• TIME STABILITY OF ATTITUDES TOWARD TRANSIT USE IN THE ORLANDO, FLORIDA, URBANIZED AREA. ABRIDGMENT
• VALUE OF URBAN TRANSIT OPERATING-COST MODELS AS FORECASTING TOOLS