A Model to Predict the Effect of Fare Increases for Commuter Train Ridership on the San Francisco Peninsula
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 233
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncremental changes in fare policy can have substantial and long-term impacts on transit ridership and revenue, but they are often driven by near-term revenue needs and determined within short time frames with limited analysis. This thesis proposes a procedural framework to organize analysis of incremental fare changes, linking exploration of current pricing strategies to estimation of behavioral parameters and modeling of fare change scenarios. Within this framework, empirical case studies are presented at two of the five largest transit agencies in the U.S. – the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). These agencies have increased the price of passes relative to pay-per-use fares in recent years, motivating three particular applications that make extensive use of automated fare collection (AFC) data: 1) differentiating employer-based, pre-tax, automatically-renewing pass sales from other pass sales, 2) estimating cost sensitivity of both ridership frequency and fare product choice using only recent experience at a single agency, and 3) incorporating fare product choice in a traditional elasticity spreadsheet model to predict impacts of fare change scenarios. Passes sold through employer programs and online are found to have lower use than other passes, contributing substantially to revenue while increasing ridership; expanding these programs or extending tax benefits to all transit commuters could further increase revenue and ridership. Individual-level AFC data are used to estimate fare-related behavioral parameters: resulting MBTA elasticity estimates of -0.7 for pay-per-use and -0.5 for employer-based passes are higher than current agency assumptions of -0.25 and -0.15, use of a CTA 30-day or 7-day pass appears to boost a customer’s ridership by up to 11% or 21% (respectively), and a CTA product choice model is estimated without reliance on stated preference data. A CTA fare model combining product choice and elasticities predicts substantial switching between fare products when pass multiples are changed, and a simplified model illustrates that passes should be priced below revenue maximization to capture low-cost gains in ridership. The procedural framework in this thesis applies to all transit agencies, and the empirical applications are relevant to agencies that collect AFC data and offer multiple payment structures.
Author: Mark Merrill Hansen
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 152
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 12
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBox-Jenkins approach to ridership forecasting at the system and route levels, based on data from Portland, OR, 1971-1982.
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Section of Energy and Environment
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: California Public Utilities Commission
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 880
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysis of monthly Chicago and Northwestern ridership to assess impact of fare increases and competition with the Kennedy rapid transit extension; Box-Jenkins and exponential smoothing.
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 272
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