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- 1. Way To Go! Click Here to Enter
- 2. The Problem
- 4. How to Get an A Building a Bus Route Checklist Make it Happen Checklist End of Project Evaluation Checklist Click on a picture
- 5. Building a Bus Route Checklist Interview neighbors and friends in the county Use your interview data to mark the map Read Tips on Creating a Bus Route Design a bus route Participate in a debate, or design a brochure to defend your bus route to others
- 6. Building a Bus Route Checklist (Continued) Write about what you learned during this activity. Complete the Survey Monkey Survey
- 7. Extra Credit-Make it Happen Make a budget for your bus route Write a proposal to be submitted to the county commissioners Write a grant that would aid in purchase of buses and/or vans
- 8. End of Project Evaluation Checklist • Individually, write what you learned • Fill out the confidential group participation form • Participate in a class evaluation of the learning process. Return to Bus Project Choices
- 10. Toot Bus Route Before starting, it’s a good idea to learn the existing bus routes. Many of the places the Beasley family want to go are located on the Toot Route.
- 12. The bus needs to drive by places where there are lots of people who need transportation. How do I find out who else needs transportation and where they live?
- 13. It would really help my family if there was a bus close to my house. So do I stick with my best friends to make my group, or should I choose people in my neighborhood?
- 14. This is going to be expensive. How will we pay for this?
- 15. I wonder if other classes in the county are doing this project. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could chat with them and see what they are planning?
- 16. Chat Room Only 8th graders in Orange County Schools allowed. Ask your teacher to send a list of students in your class who are interested in joining the Way to Go Orange chat room along with their email addresses to: jlkohler@fcps.edu
- 17. Before you begin the route creation process it is essential to have a complete understanding of the existing route structure and demographic make-up of the service area for your new route.
- 21. Click on a picture to enter Forms Which Bus? Writing a Grant Ask an Expert The Budget
- 22. Start Up Budget (click here for help) Item Cost Each Number Needed Total Buses Bus Stop Signs Bus Stop Shelters Total Start Up Cost
- 23. Click Here For Help Operating Costs Bus # Annual Miles Per Bus Parts Cost Per Mile Parts Cost Per Year Maint. Labor per Hour Maint Labor Hours Per Bus Per Year Fuel MPG Fuel Cost Per Gal Total Cost Per Bus Per Year
- 24. Replacement Costs Bus # Estimated Cost of New Bus Years before needed purchase Amount needed to save per year
- 25. Bus Operators Salary Bus # Number of Operators Amount per hour Hours per year Total Salary per Year
- 26. Total Cost to Run, Maintain and Replace Buses for Route Bus # Total Cost to Maintain for 1 Year Total Cost to save for replacement Total Salary Cost for Operators Totals Return to Budget Home Page
- 27. http://www.gltconline.com/Resources/Public_ PDFs/gltc%20- %20large%20v%20small%20bus%201_30.pdf The data indicate that a small bus will cost less that a large bus. Costs include capital and operating figures.
- 30. Gregg Zody, AICP County of Orange Director of Planning and Zoning 128 West Main Street Orange, Virginia 22960 540.672.4347 (Office) 540.672.0164 (Fax) Mr. Zody indicated that he would be willing to do any or all of the following: Visit a class to present an information session - yes Phone interview(s) - yes Small group visit(s) to his office - yes
- 31. Capital funding is used for infrastructure items such as buses, garages, and light rail lines, while operating funding is used for things such as operator salaries and fuel.
- 32. Although the federal government has recently attempted to divert some capital funding to operating funding, transit systems around the country are still at risk of buying buses and rail lines they cannot afford to operate.
- 33. All new vehicles and newly acquired, used or leased vehicles must be accessible to persons with disability, including those using wheelchairs http://www.ft a.dot.gov/doc uments/MI- 26- 7280.07.1_FI NAL_REPORT. pdf
- 36. Stephanie Straub sstraub@orangecountyva.gov • Stephanie is responsible for obtaining grants for Orange County • She expressed a willingness to give a presentation to interested schools.
- 37. Federal Transportation Grants https://search.usa.gov/search?query=grants&op=GO&affiliate=usdot The federal government's primary arena for public transit investment is the New Starts Program, which is administered by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The New Starts Program provides federal funding of new rapid transit projects of any mode type that meet certain criteria and follow the guidelines.
- 38. Of the program criteria, arguably the most important is the local financial commitment to the project. New Starts funding typically provides a maximum of 60% of the capital funding needed to complete the project - the rest must come from other sources. In addition, the FTA will not fund projects unless it is confident that the local transit agency will be able to afford to operate the project when it is completed.
- 39. In addition to the local financial commitment a project must secure an acceptable project justification rating. The project justification rating is derived from a combination of the environmental benefits, operating efficiencies, mobility improvements, cost effectiveness, potential of economic development, and land use aspects of the project.
- 40. Before a given project can be considered for New Starts funding, an alternatives analysis must be conducted. An alternatives analysis exhaustively studies a wide variety of proposal to improve transit in a particular study area and how each proposal would score on the list of criteria described above.
- 41. It is very important to emphasize that project evaluation is an on-going process. FTA evaluation and rating occurs annually in support of budget recommendations presented in the Annual Report on Funding Recommendations and when projects request FTA approval to enter into preliminary engineering or final design. Consequently, as proposed New Starts projects proceed through the project development process, information concerning costs, benefits, and impacts is refined and the ratings updated to reflect new information.
- 42. https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grant-programs/capital- investments/about-program For more information about New Starts Funding go to the following website:
- 43. Guiding Principles of Alternatives Analysis Planning provides a foundation for effective decision making. Alternatives analysis studies best support local decision making by adhering to the following key principles: • Early and ongoing participation by a wide range of stakeholders. Alternatives analysis is a local process, but can benefit from the participation of Federal and state resource and funding agencies. • A clear understanding of the problem in need of solving. The AA should not be about developing solutions in search of a problem. • Alternatives should be designed – and optimized – to address identified transportation problems and other local goals and objectives.
- 44. • The alternatives should share consistent land use, fare, and other assumptions so that their relative costs, benefits and impacts – rather than those of their underlying policy assumptions - are well understood. • Analysis and evaluation of alternatives at a level of detail necessary to support the decision-at-hand. The AA should produce reliable information that illuminates the trade-offs between alternatives. • Selection of an LPA based upon full disclosure and understanding of the estimated
- 45. Virginia State Transit Funding: Major Features Total state transit funding for FY 2008 was $229 million for a per capita figure of $29.47. The Commonwealth Transportation Trust Fund provides most state funding for transit in Virginia. Various taxes and fees, including general sales tax, gasoline, and motor vehicle taxes are used to support the fund. About 14.7 percent of the fund was allocated to transit in FY 2008. Nine localities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area are supported by the regional motor fuels tax. Two transportation commissions administer the programs supported by this tax.
- 46. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+58.1-638 58.1-638. Disposition of state sales and use tax revenue; To finance up to 80% of the cost of the development and implementation of projects where the purpose of such project is to enhance the provision and use of public transportation services.
- 47. The Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund shall not be allocated with out requiring a local match from the recipient.
- 48. The Survey The 10 Commandments For Writing Outstanding Survey Questions In the dark days of survey creation, survey question writing was confusing. Then came forth the 10 commandments for writing good survey questions to guide everyone from elite researchers to entry level interns in all things survey question writing. Bind them to thy mind, let them flow through thy survey. 1. Thou shalt avoid loaded or leading words Subtle wording differences can produce great differences in results. http://www.qualtrics.com/blog/good-survey-questions/
- 49. • “Could”, “should”, and “might” all sound about the same, but may produce a 20% difference in agreement to a question (the supreme court could /should/ might change the limits on free speech in light of terrorist activities). • Strong words, such as “prohibit” may represent control or action and influence your results. • If thou desire is clean data, this commandment must be adhered to. 2. Thou shalt honor the ordering of questions • Questions placed out of order or out of context should almost always be avoided. • In general, a funnel approach is advised. Broad and general questions at the beginning of the questionnaire as a warm-up. Then more specific questions, followed by more general easy to answer questions (like demographics) at the end of the questionnaire.
- 50. 3. Thou shalt avoid non-specific questions • Build questions that are clearly understood. • Do you like orange juice? This is very unclear…do I like what about orange juice? Taste, texture, nutritional content, vitamin C, cancer prevention properties, the current price, concentrate, or fresh squeezed? • Be specific in what you want to know. • Issues of meaning and frequency are particularly difficult to specify: Do you watch TV regularly? (What is regularly? Does it matter what I watch? Is a DVD the same as TV?).
- 51. 4. Thy question wording shall not be confusing or unfamiliar • Asking about caloric content, bits, bytes and other industry specific jargon and acronyms is confusing. • Thy audience must understand thy language level so that thy survey response rates may be high and data clean. 5. Thou shalt not force respondents to answer • Respondents may not want, or may not be able to provide the information requested. • Privacy is an important issue to most people. • Questions about income, occupation, finances, family life, personal hygiene and personal, political or religious beliefs can be too intrusive and rejected by the respondent. • Incentives and assurances of confidentiality will help in addition to adding a “prefer not to answer” option.
- 52. 6. Thou shalt not adulterate your survey with non-exhaustive listings • Do you have all of the options covered? • If you are unsure, conduct a pretest using “Other (please specify)” as an option. • When building multiple choice survey questions, make sure to cover at least 90% of the respondent answers so thy data shall be clean. 7. Thou shalt use unbalanced listings skillfully • Unbalanced scales may be appropriate for some situations and biased in others. • Biased example: When measuring alcohol consumption patterns, one study used a quantity scale that made the heavy drinker appear in the middle of the scale with the polar ends reflecting no consumption and an impossible amount to consume. This is a sin.
- 53. 8. Thou shalt abolish double barreled questions • What is the fastest and most economical Internet service for you? • The fastest is certainly not the most economical. • Thou shalt never ask two questions simultaneously. 9. Honor thy dichotomous questions • When building a survey, answers should always be independent. • The question “Do you think basketball players as being independent agents or as employees of their team?” is not dichotomous. Many believe that basketball players are both.
- 54. 10. Thou shalt use long questions wisely • Multiple choice questions are the longest and most complex. Free text answers are the shortest and easiest to answer. When you increase the length of questions and surveys, you decrease the chance of receiving a completed response. • Written By Sam Lloyd http://www.qualtrics.com/blog/good-survey-questions/
- 55. Survey Question Goals • Find out what people in Orange County are thinking about public transportation • Find out who needs public transportation in Orange County • Find out where they live (major crossroad) • Find out where they need to go • Find out if someone is already working on the problem
- 56. Interviewing is an SOL requirement, but when you are finished with that you could find out more information by conducting a survey. • https://www.surveymonkey.com/
- 57. Make a Scatter Plot Map • http://www.altova.com/download-database- conversion.html?gclid=COGbnYDijb4CFRFnOg od-wcAMg
- 58. Example of a Public Transportation Proposal A Proposal for Public Transit This Business Plan Produced for: The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, and The Towns of Lunenburg, Bridgewater, and Mahone Bay August, 2007 • http://www.coastalaction.org/downloads/CPT/CPT_Pr oposal.pdf
- 59. Data About Orange County (needed to write proposal) • http://orangecountyva.gov/DocumentCenter/ View/783
- 60. Choose One Activity to Help Sell Your Bus Route Participate in a debate Design a Pamphlet