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Report to UIC Chancellor’s Committee on Sustainability and Energy
50.00%
Figure 6: Diurnal pattern of rides by U-PASS holders
Rides per Semester
40.00%
30.00%
20.00%
10.00%
22.22%
40.08%
28.71%
24.87%
19.40%
27.71%
9.47%
20.28%
0.00%
3.90%
6 AM-9 AM 9 AM-3 PM 3 PM-6 PM 6 PM-9 PM 9 PM-6 AM
Time of Day
3.37%
♦ Weekday ■ Weekend
U-PASS Use Patterns
The U-PASS first came to UIC in the fall of 2001 for undergraduate
students. The addition of the graduate students from the Graduate
College, College of Pharmacy, and School of Public Health started in
fall 2002. On August 5th 2004, the Regional Transit Authority Board
approved an agreement for Pace buses to accept all CTA fare cards,
including the U-PASS. This was discontinued January 1, 2009. The
renewal of the U-PASS program and nonrefundable CTA
transportation fee included undergraduate students and graduate
students from the Graduate College, College of Pharmacy, School of
Public Health, and Doctorate of Physical Therapy program, as well as
the addition of College of Dentistry students and the M1 and M2
students from the College of Medicine beginning fall 2005. College of
Medicine students voted 72% in favor of having the U-PASS available
to all classes beginning summer 2007. Every year the students must
vote on a referendum each April to approve the U-PASS for the
following year. It continues to have strong support.
The student U-PASS program has been a successful application of a
transit program to assist in student mobility. Table 3 shows the
frequency distribution of rides taken per semester using U-PASS.
More than 60 percent of UIC U-PASS users are “moderate intensity
users” who ride the transit system between 32 and 106 times per
semester. About 18% are “high intensity users” who ride the system
106 times per semester. Only 5% of U-PASS holders are non-users
(never used the transit system at all during a semester).
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