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Calculate Your Savings by Riding a SARTA Bus

This calculator will help you compare the price of using SARTA public transportation with the price of paying at the pump and then parking your car in town. This calculator has been set with values that reflect averages for Canton, Ohio in June 2008. However, you may set variables such as the price of gas and the length of the round trip to match the current price of gas and the length of your own round trip commute.

This calculator courtesy of APTA and can also be found here: APTA link.

Footnotes

* Based on the following estimates for increased costs of maintenance and tire replacement per mile.

	Small Car per mile	Medium Car per mile	Large Car per mile	Mini-Van per mile	SUV per mile
Maintenance	3.98 cents	4.67 cents	5.07 cents	4.76 cents	5.47 cents
Tires	0.55 cents	0.85 cents	0.77 cents	0.67 cents	0.93 cents

** Those who receive free parking may instead be entitled to a public transit subsidy up to $115 per month.  Click on It Pays To Ride Public Transportation to find out more. 

*** If you are able to eliminate a vehicle in your household, you save an additional $5,576 in car ownership cost (full-coverage insurance, license, registration, taxes, depreciation and finance charge).

(The ownership, maintenance and tire replacement cost are from the AAA 2008 Your Driving Costs..)