Cost of mass transit

[exCLP]

Anyone have up-to-date cost numbers ($/passanger-mile) for rubber-tire and fixed-rail (at-grade, elevated, and tunnel) mass transit systems....Interested in both Operating and Capital Recovery....

Is there any mass transit system out there that pays for itself, or does this still remain 1950's CATS and the San Antonio Bus System (up until San Antonio was asked to advise on the writing of the UMTA legislation in the early 1970's)?

Is any fixed-rail system in America even paying its own Operating expenses out of the fare-box??

What is the Operating cost/hour, of putting a city bus on a street route?

 

[peter111]

There are a number of fixed rail projects internationally that are privately financed and therefore theoretically profitable, but I do not know about the US.

However even Build Operate Transfer projects can have financial assistance from Governments included. However most get investors from propoerty owners who own property near stations which increases in value after the rail line opens.

 

[ACtrafficengr]

Have you tried the Federal Transit Administration?

It would also be interesting to see how much highway travel is subsidized.

"...students of traffic are beginning to realize the false economy of mechanically controlled traffic, and hand work by trained officers will again prevail." - Wm. Phelps Eno, ca. 1928

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