To inform our study of assessing the viability of a fare integration scheme for the San Francisco Bay Area we collected a sample of cities who have embarked on implementation of a city-wide fare integration scheme in the past. We did our best to make sure the cities we chose to incorporate in our review were comparable to the San Francisco Bay Area: regions with large populations spread out over a large land area, as this sociological geography deeply informs transit decisions in the Bay.
After conducting this review we found that there were four essential pieces to successful implementation of fare integration:
The table below sums up the observations we observed across different transit systems. For a more in depth analysis please see our executive summary.
After conducting this review we found that there were four essential pieces to successful implementation of fare integration:
- Benefits for low-income users
- Cooperation between transit agencies
- Fare calculation
- Extra incentives
The table below sums up the observations we observed across different transit systems. For a more in depth analysis please see our executive summary.
Maike Puhe, Markus Edelman, Max Reichenbach. "'Integrated Urban E-ticketing for Public Transport and Touristic Sites'" Science and Technology Options Assessment (2014):. European Parliamentary Research Service, Jan. 2014.
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