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SUMMARY Fare-Free Transit Evaluation Framework Despite strong recent interest from transit agencies, there is no known research that presents a framework for transit practitioners to evaluate fare-free transit. This report presents a framework that can be used by transit practitioners to evaluate the potential benefits, costs, and trade-offs of implementing fare-free transit.
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2 Fare-Free Transit Evaluation Framework Get Organized Make a Plan Evaluate Step 1: Set the context Step 5: Set evaluation Step 9: Estimate Step 2: Assess the goals and objectives impacts existing conditions Step 6: Determine Step 10: Select Step 3: Review peer performance measures preferred alternative transit agencies Step 7: Establish Step 4: Identify selection criteria opportunities and Step 8: Select fare-free challenges transit alternatives Stakeholder and Public Outreach Exhibit S-1. Evaluation framework steps.
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Summary 3 Access, Mobility, & Operational Financial Community Equity Efficiency Health Impacts How fare-free transit How fare-free transit How fare-free transit How fare-free transit impacts transit access, impacts a transit impacts a transit impacts the community's mobility, and equity agency's ability to agency's short- and long- economy, sustainability, provide and operate term financial well-being and congestion quality service Exhibit S-2. Fare-free transit impact themes.
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4 Fare-Free Transit Evaluation Framework should consider when implementing and evaluating fare-free transit. Chapter 3 provides a more detailed description of how both feasibility and post-implementation evaluations have been conducted by U.S.
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction This report presents a framework for transit practitioners to evaluate the potential benefits, costs, and trade-offs of implementing fare-free transit. This framework was informed by a transit agency survey and interviews with staff from transit agencies, community organizations, and transit advocacy groups.
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6 Fare-Free Transit Evaluation Framework riders. A fare-free program is a planned set of actions that are administered by a transit agency to achieve transit agency or other local goals, such as a program to provide fare-free transit to riders with incomes below a defined threshold or a pilot program to test the impacts of fare-free transit.
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