Payment in the form of coins, bills, tickets, and tokens collected for transit rides.
What is the fare?
100
Transit service provided on a repetitive, fixed-schedule basis along a specific route, with vehicles stopping to pick up passengers and deliver passengers to specific locations.
What is fixed-route?
100
A specified path taken by a transit vehicle usually designated by a number or a name, along which passengers are picked up or discharged.
What is a route?
100
A rubber-tired road vehicle designed to carry a substantial number of passengers, commonly operated on streets and highways for public transportation service.
What is a bus?
100
An arrangement where people share the use and cost of a privately owned automobile in traveling to and from pre-arranged destinations.
What is carpooling?
200
A device that accepts the coins, bills, tickets, and tokens given by passengers as payment for rides.
What is the farebox?
200
Transportation service required by ADA for individuals with disabilities who are unable to use fixed-route transit systems.
What is paratransit?
200
A document that shows the time of each revenue trip through the designated time points.
What is a schedule?
200
A structure constructed near a bus stop to provide seating and protection from the weather for the convenience of waiting passengers.
What is a bus shelter?
200
A parking area for automobile drivers who then board vehicles, shuttles, or carpools from these locations.
What is Park and Ride?
300
A slip of paper issued to a passenger that gives him or her the right to change from one transit vehicle to another according to specified limits.
What is a transfer?
300
A service generally connecting residential areas and activity centers via a freeway with limited stops at each end for collection and distribution.
What is express service?
300
Miles operated by vehicles available for passenger service.
What are revenue miles?
300
A fixed location where passengers transfer from one route to another.
What is transit station?
300
A form of transportation, other than public transit, in which more than one person shares in the use of the vehicle, such as a van or car, to make a trip.
What is Ridesharing?
400
A means of transit prepayment, usually a card that carries some identification that is displayed to the driver in place of paying a cash fare.
What is a pass?
400
Public transportation that operates along a public way, on a fixed route, from which it may deviate from time to time, take a passenger to a destination, after which it returns to its route.
What is route deviation service?
400
Bus travel to or from the garage and a terminus point where revenue service begins or ends.
What is deadhead?
400
The place where revenue vehicles are stored and maintained and from where they are dispatched and recovered for the delivery of scheduled service.
What is the garage?
400
A system that allows people to borrow a bike from point "A" and return it to point "B".
What is Bike Share?
500
A means of transit pre-payment purchased on-line that is displayed on a cell phone to the driver in place of paying a cash fare.
What is an E-ticket?
500
A system of buses that operate more like a conventional rail system than traditional local buses and serve stations with enhanced infrastructure.
What is bus rapid transit (BRT)?
500
The scheduled time interval between any two revenue vehicles operating in the same direction on a route.
What is headway?
500
Cutout in the roadside to permit a transit vehicle to dwell at a curb.
What is a bus turnout?
500
A place where commuters are driven and left at a station to board a public transportation vehicle.