Common initiative at post-secondary institutions, whereby all students or members of a sub-group (e.g. full-time undergraduates) pay a fee that gives them unlimited access to transit for the entire semester, school year or calendar year. U-Pass fees are typically much lower than the cost of buying regular passes or tickets, because the cost of transit fares is redistributed from a smaller group to a larger one. U-Pass programs, being universal by nature, involve mandatory participation that makes them similar to public health or pension plans. While some individuals may benefit more directly than others, U-Passes work because they have substantial benefits for the student group as a whole. U-Passes are typically (but not always) limited to the student population - at Calgary's Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, college staff and faculty have been included in the U-Pass program