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5 Project Background and definition of fare-free transit At least 39 public transit agencies in the United States offer totally fare-free transit, while many more offer service that is free to certain segments of the population or in geographic subcomponents of their service area. For the purposes of this report, fare-free transit is defined as public transit services that require no passenger to pay when they board a public transit vehicle, nor do they pay at a platform or station before boarding the vehicle.
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6 by the city of Tempe, which links Arizona State University, downtown Tempe, and surrounding neighborhoods. However, all of these fare-free services are subcomponents of larger regional public transit systems that are not fare-free.
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7 of the community outside the campus through an agreement the university has reached with that agency. However, this project found only the previously listed eight examples of public transit agencies that provide fare-free service to the university students and to all other residents, workers, and visitors in the surrounding community.
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8 • Communications with more than 3,000 members of listservs maintained by the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida. These listserv members were asked to identify any public transit agencies they were aware of that operated with a fare-free policy.
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