7 Jul 2011
Calculating GO Transit Fares
GO Transit has a bunch of fare options for you to chose from.
GO publishes a fare schedule online, however it’s approx. 10 pages of charts and fare schedules.. They don’t mention any specific formula they use to calculate the different fare classes from the base fare.
I spent some time last night figuring it out based on the tables, and I present to you my findings:
- Half Fare: Base Fare divided by two and rounded to the nearest $0.05.
- Adult Ten-Ride: Base fare multiplied by 9.25 and rounded to the nearest $0.25.
- Student Ten-Ride: Base fare multiplied by 8.5 and rounded to the nearest $0.25.
- Child Ten-Ride: Base fare multiplied by 2.5 and rounded to the nearest $0.25.
- Group Pass: Base fare multiplied by 4 and rounded to the nearest $0.10.
- Adult Monthly Pass: Base fare multiplied by 33 and rounded to the nearest $1.00.
- Student Monthly Pass: Student Ten-Ride fare multiplied by 3.06 and rounded to the nearest $1.00.
- Child Monthly Pass: Child Ten-Ride fare multiplied by 4 and rounded to the nearest $1.00.
Some interesting facts I discovered:
- The most expensive adult fare is $30.05. Which would take you from Peterborough to Niagara Falls.
- If you will be missing more than 3.5 days (7 trips) during a month, it’s cheaper for you to purchase 4 Ten-Rides. Assuming 2 trips per day, 20 working days a month.
- Zone numbers are not based on distance. There is no relationship between the difference in two zones numbers and their fare. For example the fare is $4.35 between zone 2 & 4 and zones 2 & 77.
- There are 2392 possible zone combinations. (to/from destinations).
- There is no zone 1.
- Members of the police force and RCMP ride for free.
- Veterans and their accompany ride for free during Remembrance Day.
