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A Cost Benefit Analysis Of Blupass: The University Of Kentucky's Fare Free Transit Partnership With Lextran, Sandra Broadus
A Cost Benefit Analysis Of Blupass: The University Of Kentucky's Fare Free Transit Partnership With Lextran, Sandra Broadus
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Parking is an omnipresent headache for urban-based universities across the United States. The University of Kentucky took a distinctive approach to shifting commuter mode share away from single-occupancy vehicles in 2015 by initiating a fare-free partnership with the local transit authority. This study aims to determine the relative success of this program by weighing the costs and benefits for the University over the first four years of implementation. In order to offset the limited supply of parking available for personally owned vehicles, the University of Kentucky (UK) launched BluPass, a fare-free transit initiative that aimed to significantly increase the number …