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8/8/2012 Draft SamTrans Service Plan: Board Update August 2012 Context Board Update on the SSP - Context - Draft Service Plan recommendations - Public Outreach - Next Steps 2 1 8/8/2012 Context The Transit District is facing an

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Draft SamTrans Service Plan: Board Update

August 2012

Context

  • Board Update on the SSP
  • Context
  • Draft Service Plan recommendations
  • Public Outreach
  • Next Steps

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Context

  • The Transit District is facing an

uncertain future:

  • Debt obligations
  • Contributions to Caltrain
  • SamTrans ridership declining
  • Paratransit expenses increasing
  • Unresolved structural deficit

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Context

  • SSP does not resolve the structural

deficit

  • The SSP will :
  • Improve service efficiencies
  • Increase ridership
  • Increase revenues
  • Hold costs at current levels

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SamTrans Service Plan

  • Vision
  • Grounded in the Strategic Plan
  • Service Plan
  • Near-term service improvements and

efficiencies

  • Actions for performance improvement
  • Next steps for achieving vision

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Vision

  • Build ridership and increase revenue
  • Expand service
  • Evaluate new service types and other

creative ways of delivering service

  • Establish a framework for continuous

expansion and improvement

  • Provide some of the steps towards

financial sustainability

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Vision

  • Grounded in the goals and initiatives of the

SamTrans Strategic Plan

– Comprehensively addresses mobility management

  • Reflects the District’s family of services,

programs and ongoing planning initiatives

  • Meets the needs of transit dependent

communities

  • Improves quality of life, transportation mobility
  • Begins to address east-west connectivity
  • Actively engages cities and local and regional

stakeholders

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Service Plan

  • Service route recommendations
  • Balance reinvesting existing resources

with proposed service improvements

  • Aim to increase ridership and revenues
  • Anticipates no increase in operating

cost

  • Does not address fare policy

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Actions for Performance Improvement

  • Create a Performance Monitoring and Action

Plan

  • Service and Financial Metric Goals
  • Ridership
  • Passenger per Revenue Hour
  • Cost per Passenger
  • Cost per Passenger Mile
  • Cost per Service Hour
  • Farebox recovery ratio
  • Subsidy per Passenger Boarding
  • Incorporate into updated SamTrans Strategic

Plan

  • Reflect SamTrans commitment to regional

efforts

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Actions for Performance Improvement

  • Continue and strengthen coordination with

cities, regional, and state agencies

  • Implement findings from El Camino Real

studies

  • Bus Rapid Transit study
  • Grand Boulevard Initiative efforts
  • Implement Shuttle Best Practices program
  • Explore new service delivery options
  • Demand response services

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Draft Service Recommendations

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  • Areas where transit is a

competitive travel option

  • Higher concentrations of

population and/or employment

  • Walkable communities with

mixed uses

  • Located near major activity/

employment centers

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Core Markets

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1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 390 391 397 120 292 122 121 296 130 250 260 110 295 140 281 133 274 112 132 271 123 251 294 280 262 118 270 141 359 297 KX 14 83 17 53 85 36 54 46 16 73 24 58 35 55 72 38 43

Weekday Boardings

El Camino Local Express Community

Weekday Ridership Route Performance

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0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105

Financial Effectiveness Productivity

391 390 120 292 Legend El Camino Real Local Express Community

65% of SamTrans routes

below the system average for both financial effectiveness and productivity

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Recommendation Strategies

  • Service Improvements
  • El Camino Real improvements
  • Enhance Core Market Network
  • Modify Services
  • Service reductions
  • Schedule changes
  • Route changes
  • Discontinue Services
  • New Routes
  • Alternative Service Pilot Program

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El Camino Real Improvements

  • Build upon weekend route

consolidation pilot program

  • Consolidate weekday Routes

390 & 391 service

  • Simplified, more reliable service
  • n corridor
  • Serves most transit stations
  • 15-minute frequency

between Palo Alto and Daly City

  • Increase frequency between

Palo Alto and Redwood City

  • Discontinue Route 391 SF

service

Route 390/391 Combined Service along El Camino Real

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Enhanced Bus Network

  • Build upon core market

area transit potential

  • Weekday service at

least every 15 minutes in core market areas

  • Enhance east-west

connectivity to El Camino Real

Daly City – Route 120 Daly City/SSF – Route 130 Redwood City – Route 296 East Palo Alto – Routes 296, 281

Enhanced Bus Network 120, 130, 281, 296

El Camino Real – Route ECR

Enhanced Bus Network New El Camino Real Route ECR 17

Modify routes to improve service performance and better match service with markets

  • Ways that routes are modified:

– Service reductions – Schedule changes – Route changes

Modify Service

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How riders may be affected by modified service:

+ New or added frequency + Shortened travel time + Increased service reliability

  • Reduced service coverage
  • Increased bus transfers

Candidates for Modification

KX, 14, 122, 133, 140, 141, 250, 251, 260, 262, 270, 271, 292, 294, 295

Modify Service

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  • Current SamTrans service into SF:
  • Slow due to roadway traffic conditions
  • Long trip times
  • Duplicates other transit services
  • Costly service to provide

Baby Bullet* Route KX

$5 One-way Trip 84 minutes

Route 391

$4 One-way Trip 150+ minutes

Modify San Francisco Service

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Boardings per Hour Subsidy per Boarding KX 17.5 $10.95 292 21.8 $7.92 391 12.9 $13.54 SamTrans Average 31.3 $5.23

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  • Service recommendation:
  • Modify Route KX & Route 292 SF service to peak

periods* only

  • Discontinue Route 391 SF service
  • No change to Route 397 late night service

Baby Bullet*

$6.75 One-way Trip ~50 minutes

Route KX

$5 One-way Trip 84 minutes

Route 391

$4 One-way Trip 150+ minutes

Modify San Francisco Service

*Includes Muni fare & additional travel time 21

Route Connection Point Available Transit Options KX SFO (off‐peak and weekends) BART 292 San Bruno/Arleta Avenue (off‐peak) Muni 8X, 8AX/BX, 9, 9L, T Line, Caltrain 391 Daly City BART BART, Muni 14, 14L, 14X

*AM Peak: 6am – 9am PM Peak: 3pm – 6pm

  • Discontinue routes due to:
  • Low ridership and low productivity
  • Duplication with other SamTrans routes
  • Other transit options available

Candidates for Discontinuation 118, 123, 132, 280, 359

Discontinue Service

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  • Two new routes

better connect

  • rigins and

destinations

  • Provide more

direct east-west connections to El Camino Real

  • Provide more

efficient service

  • n productive

segments

Proposed New Routes 252, 275

Proposed New Routes

Route 252 60-min. Frequency Connecting El Camino Real Route 275 30-min. Frequency Connecting El Camino Real 23

  • Two pilot demand

response projects :

  • San Carlos
  • Pacifica
  • Mitigation for reduced

fixed route service

  • Monitor pilot program

performance

  • Expand to other areas

based on lessons learned

Alternative Service Pilot

Recommended Service 24

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Key Outcomes

  • Improve service productivity and

efficiencies

  • Increase ridership
  • Anticipate approximately 1,000 additional

riders per weekday and 310,000 annually

  • Increase revenues
  • Hold costs at current levels
  • SSP a living process to continually

monitor and make adjustments

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Public Outreach

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Next Steps

  • Begin public input/outreach effort for

fall 2012:

  • Rider Forums
  • Public Meetings
  • Presentations to City/Town Councils
  • Stakeholder Forums
  • Community Colleges
  • Engage Employees & Union Leadership
  • Public Hearing

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Next Steps

  • Continue to refine Service Plan
  • Incorporate public response
  • Present a final draft to Board for

adoption in late 2012/early 2013

  • Anticipate phased implementation

beginning summer 2013

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