A study on paid parking for Teton Pass sheds an interesting light on a more innovative way to manage traffic. Would you be willing to pay $10 per vehicle per day, or $60 for the season to park and ski on the pass? Or would you rather take a shuttle from Stilson or Victor?
The study suggested at a ride on the shuttle costing $5, or $25 for a season pass. At that rate, running a shuttle seven days a week in the winter from Stilson to Victor, without a paid parking system, would cost the operator some $380,000. But study authors estimate that, with a paid parking system, a subsidy of only $48,500 a year would be needed to make the shuttle system “financially self-sustaining.”
At lower levels of service, running a shuttle system in conjunction with a paid parking system would allow the whole operation to run in the green. For example, when combined with a paid parking system, running a winter shuttle seven days a week from Stilson to Coal Creek, rather than Stilson to Victor, would generate a $20,800 annual profit.
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