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A transit district or transit authority is a
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or a
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created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region. A transit district may operate bus, rail or other types of transport including
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service, or may operate other facilities. In some cases, the transit district may be part of a larger organization such as a state Department of Transportation.


Australia

* The TransLink Transit Authority which manages buses, trains and ferries in South East Queensland,
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;


Austria

With seven transport associations responsible for the nine federal states of Austria, it is the only country in the world that has transport associations for each federal state except for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland which are organised in one association (Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region).


Canada

In Canada, transit (or transport or transportation) is mostly of the domain of
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, with some coordination by the provinces. Most
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have a transit authority.


France

テ四e-de-France Mobilitテゥs supervises transport in the テ四e de France region.


Germany

As part of the big deregulation package passed by the
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in 1993, which mainly merged the two state railways of West and East Germany into one single company governed by private law instead of public law, regional transport and transit had been assigned to the Bundeslテ、nder (federal states), who had each to pass their own individual law regulating public transit, whereby "regional" was defined as journeys "typically not over distances more than , and not taking longer than one hour".


United Kingdom

Transport for London, which operates the
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, London Overground and the DLR, an extensive
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, tram services, riverboat services, the Public Carriage Office (responsible for black cabs), London Dial-a-Ride, streets in London, the
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and a limited coach service. The
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electronic ticketing scheme is also operated by Transport for London, and can be used on the underground, overground, buses, trams and the DLR.


United States

In the United States, a transit district is a special-purpose district organized either as a corporation chartered by
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or as a government agency. A district is usually contained within one state, but in rare circumstances may cover two or more states. The term used depends on which part of the country the agency is created in. Typically, western states will create a "transit district" and eastern states create a "transit authority" but the type of agency is generally the same. A transit district is created to give it the power of the government in dealing with solving problems related to
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issues. This includes the powers of
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to obtain space for
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(e.g. for
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s or busways), the ability to impose excise, income,
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, and/or
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taxes to fund subsidies of operating costs of local transportation, and the ability to operate independently of the cities and counties that the transit district operates within. A transit district may also have its own transit police force, although in some areas the local police provide a special bureau for this purpose. Some of the more famous transit districts in the U.S. include: * The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), serving 12 counties in southeastern
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including
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, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation; * The New York City Transit Authority which operates
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's subway trains and municipal buses; * The
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which operates
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's
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and the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) trains, and was the owner of the
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complex; * The
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, which operates the bus and
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rail system in
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and suburban
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and
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; * The former
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, which operated most of the bus systems in
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as well as parts of Orange,
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and San Bernardino counties from August 18, 1964, until April 1, 1993, when it was converted into the
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; * The Chicago Transit Authority, which operates all bus routes which run within the boundaries of Chicago, as well as the
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; * The
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, shortened to Sound Transit (ST), which operates ''
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'' (commuter rail), Link (light rail), and
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bus service in the Seattle metropolitan area; * The
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(UTA), which operates the '' FrontRunner'' (commuter rail), TRAX (light rail), and bus service along the
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(
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- Odgen- Provo metropolitan area);


See also

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* Passenger transport executive *
Sustainable transport Sustainable transport refers to ways of transportation that are sustainable in terms of their social and environmental impacts. Components for evaluating sustainability include the particular vehicles used for road, water or air transport; th ...
*
Transit pass A transit pass (North American English) or travel card (British English), often referred to as a bus pass or train pass etc. (in all English dialects), is a ticket that allows a passenger of the service to take either a certain number of pre-purch ...


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