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Appendix C - Observations from the National Transit Database
Appendix C - Observations from the National Transit Database
Pages 60-61
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These revenues typically are earned directly as the result of providing passenger service, e.g., fare revenues, or as auxiliary revenues that are earned by activities closely related providing passenger service, e.g., bus advertising, station concessions, and parking fees at stations; • Revenues earned by the transit system not closely related to providing passenger service. These funds are categorized as nontransportation revenues and, in many cases, are revenues that could be earned by business entities not involved in providing passenger service.
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Like the problem noted above, this can occur when the transit system makes, but does not confirm, an assumption about the source of funding. The reporting of dedicated parking fees as a general revenue fund source is an example of this problem; and • There is evidence that often times sources entered as "other" should have more properly been reported under the more specific funding categories, i.e., there remains some vagueness for reporters in the funding source definitions, while at the same time routine computer checks of data in "other" NTD categories are not effective.
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