Transit Fare Revenue Calculator

Daily Fare Revenue is split into two streams: cash fares paid by riders without a pass (some of them discounted transfer fares), and pass revenue, which spreads each pass holder's Monthly Pass Price evenly across roughly 30 days. Daily Ridership is by far the dominant driver of the total -- every other input only adjusts the revenue collected PER rider, while ridership sets how many riders there are in the first place, so scaling ridership up scales total revenue up by roughly the same factor. Base Fare directly raises revenue from every full-price cash rider, and because Transfer Discount only reduces the fare a transferring subset of riders pay, a higher Base Fare still raises total cash revenue even with transfers factored in. Pass Holders (%) shifts riders from the cash-fare bucket into the flat monthly-pass bucket -- more pass holders means more predictable but potentially lower per-rider revenue if the discounted daily-equivalent pass price undercuts what those riders would have paid in cash fares.

Monthly Revenue treats the two streams differently, because they behave differently: cash fares scale with ridership, so they are counted over an average month of about 21.7 weekdays plus 8.7 weekend days at roughly 40% of weekday ridership -- about 25 weekday-equivalent days. Pass revenue is not scaled at all: a monthly pass is billed once per month whether its holder rides twenty days or two. This is a projection model, not a substitute for actual fare-collection data or a full origin-destination ridership study.