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42 Research Overview The 32 agency participants (for an 80% response rate) of the online survey represented several nonprofit organizations, city departments of transportation, private enterprises, and transit agencies.
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Survey Results 43 Source: Toole Design Group. Data from online survey.
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44 Public Transit and Bikesharing • Transit agency interacts with other local public or private agencies managing the program (36% or 3 out of 8)
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Survey Results 45 The read-only technology is similar to that used for credit or debit cards and allows the automatic determination of the validity of an unlimited-ride pass (Multisystems, Inc., Mundle & Associates, Inc., and Simon & Simon Research and Associates, Inc.
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46 Public Transit and Bikesharing Bikeshare systems tend to use federal funding to cover capital expenditures at higher rates than do other types of funding. Conversely, local funding, grants, and sponsorships are used to cover the costs of operations and management of systems.
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Survey Results 47 Unionized Labor Another similarity that bikeshare programs have with transit operators is the use of unionized employees for operating their system (Figure 33)
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48 Public Transit and Bikesharing and managing agencies have started to offer discounted or amortized memberships to qualifying individuals. This practice has been a standard operating procedure in several U.S.
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Survey Results 49 20 respondents) (Figure 36)
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50 Public Transit and Bikesharing around one quarter of all CTA bus stops (Wiedel 2017)
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