Robert del Rosario (director of service development, AC Transit) discusses his agency's Title VI protocol at the first-ever Remix Conference in San Francisco on October 7, 2015. Find out more at http://getremix.com/

1. Plan|ACT
Routes and Schedules
Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
Robert del Rosario
Service Expansion Plan
The Remix Conference
October 5, 2015

2. Regional Transit Service
Approximately 1.42
million people
live in AC Transit’s
364 square mile
service area
Alameda, Albany,
Berkeley, El Cerrito,
Emeryville, Fremont,
Hayward, Newark,
Oakland, Piedmont,
Richmond, San
Leandro, and San
Pablo & eight
Unincorporated Areas

3. AC Transit at a Glance
• 196,778 Average Weekday Boardings
• Operating and Capital Budget of nearly $395
Million in FY 15-16
• 1.9 million revenue service hours and 24.4
million miles per year
• 151 Bus Lines
• 68 Local / 31 Transbay Express / 5 All-
Nighter / 47 Supplementary
• Approximately 5,500 Bus Stops
• 586 Buses
• Serve 13 Cities and 8 Unincorporated Areas in
Alameda & Contra Costa Counties

4. What is Plan|ACT?
Routes & Schedules
Where and when transit
service is available
Infrastructure
Transit Speed,
Reliability,
Amenities
Policies & Vision
Recommended levels of
service, like Span and
Frequency
Service Expansion Plan
(SEP)
Major Corridors Plan Short Range Transit Plan
(SRTP)

5. Measure BB Sales Tax
$1.8 Billion Investment in AC Transit (over 30 years)

6. Service Expansion Plan
• AC Transit’s Comprehensive Operations Analysis
• 240,000 Additional Service Hours
• Return service levels to 2009 pre-recession
• Developed Guiding Principles
• Public Survey Input
• Industry Best Practices
• Serve Demand
• Population and Job Densities
• 45 Local Route Change Proposals
• Introduction of Flex Service
Timeline
• 11/11/15 – Hold Public Hearing
• March 2015 – March 2016 – Implementation of SEP

7. SEP Guiding Principles
Guiding Principles
Fill in the grid.
• Increasing frequency, especially
midday, evenings, and weekends
Get you where you’re going.
• Extend lines to major destinations
Improve performance.
• Adjust routes to reduce delay and
improve reliability
• Maximize resources like Road
Supervision and restroom facilities
by terminating in common locations

8. Using Remix for the SEP
• Real-time Route
Adjustments and Cost
Implications
• Develop and Toggle
through Multiple
Alternatives
• User-friendly Interface
• Compare Routes with
Demographic Layers

9. SEP Title VI Analysis
Service Equity Analysis
• Streamlined and
Automated Process to
develop raw data for
various analyses
• Immediate output can be
analyzed quickly and
easily
• Analysis can be done
earlier in the planning
process instead of after
the run-cut

10. SEP Title VI Analysis
Service Quality Analysis
• Compare travel times from
randomly generated minority/non-
minority and low-income/not low-
income origins and to key
destinations between the existing
network and the SEP
• Through use of the “Jane”
isochrone function on Remix, AC
Transit Planners hope to be able to
determine if there is a degradation
or improvement in travel time to key
destinations under the SEP

11. SEP Title VI Analysis
Service Quality Analysis
(Cont’d)
• AC Transit anticipates that using
“Jane” provides a cursory test to
determine if there are Title VI
impacts related to travel time. If the
test results are positive, we may
need to conduct further, more
detailed analyses.
• The ideal next function would be to
use the “Jane” isochrone tool to
determine the possible change in
financial cost of travel when
comparing the existing network to a
proposed network

12. Next Steps
2014 2015 2016
Summer Fall Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter Spring
SEP
SRTP
Major
Corridors
Draft Final
Public Outreach Meetings
Major Milestones
Draft Final
Final &
Title VI
Report
Implementation

13. Plan|ACT
Routes and Schedules
Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
Robert del Rosario
Service Expansion Plan
The Remix Conference
October 5, 2015