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Agencies profiled are: • Pace, Illinois -- vanpool feeders from Metra train stations • King County Metro Transit, Washington -- ridesharing integrated into the transit agency's services • Des Moines Area Regional Transit Agency (DART) , Iowa -- vanpool miles used to maximize transit revenue • Kings County Area Public Transit Agency (KCAPTA)
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Establishing vanpools and subsidizing vanpool fares had a high frequency of response from survey participants reporting components of their ridesharing programs. • Most agencies use a variety of performance measures to determine whether the amount spent on ridesharing is worthwhile; however, the majority considers ridesharing as part of their mix of mobility services rather than using a cost-effectiveness metric separately to evaluate the ridesharing program.
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• A high level of coordination exists between regional planning entities and agencies with ridesharing programs. The majority of public transit and non-transit agencies attend regional rideshare planning meetings.
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• Better performance measures for evaluating the worth of ridesharing within a public transit environment: When difficult economic decisions are being made, agencies might benefit from a study providing the metrics for developing better performance measures for evaluating ridesharing programs. It is highly unlikely that transit can absorb the anticipated growth in vehicles that is predicted over the next decade.
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