In 1980, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) awarded grants to the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District (TRI-MET) to implement self-service fare collection (SSFC) on its bus system. TRI-MET, the transit authority serving Portland, Oregon, is the second authority in the United States to use SSFC and the first to use it on buses. TRI-MET expected SSFC to improve bus productivity, facilitate distance-based fares, and reduce fare evasion. Problems encountered with SSFC on buses in Portland included increased fare evasion, high enforcement costs, no productivity improvements, low surcharge/ fine collections, overburdened courts, and increased vandalism. These problems need to be overcome before SSFC can be successful on buses in other U.S. cities.


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    Title :

    Self-Service Fare Collection on Buses in Portland, Oregon


    Contributors:
    D. Wagner (author) / W. Harper (author) / O. Schueftan (author)

    Publication date :

    1986


    Size :

    226 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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