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When Public Transport Administrations propose changed fare schemes or increased fares, they are often met with concerns regarding the proposed fare schemes fairness. Implicit in these concerns is an understanding of relations, governing land use and public transport, impacting equity. In this paper the authors propose a method for assessing geographical and distributional fairness of alternative fare scheme changes relating it to common implicit prior understandings. The method uses socio-economic statistics on census areas in conjunction with public transport travel data from a transport forecast model. The method is applied to the Case study of Stockholm public transport. The authors find that high income travelers benefit from all fare schemes but most by flat fares and that a strong distance-dependent fare could be horizontally equitable but has poor vertical equity.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP030 Standing Committee on Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy.

19-02573

English

25p

2019

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Case studies; Equity; Fares; Public transit; Socioeconomic factors

Stockholm (Sweden)

Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-02573

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 7 2018 9:43AM