Income distribution effects of the Atlanta transit system. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board, Washington, January 1974.

A pilot study to evaluate the income-distribution effects of the proposed Atlanta transit system is reported. Benefits and costs to each of 8 traffic zones are estimated. Benefits accruing to each zone as a result of saving time, vehicle ownership and operating costs, transit fares, parking, and accidents are estimated and compared to transit fares and additional sales taxes that have to be paid by the residents of that zone.