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Spieler 2020
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- 2. Green Transit: tools forplanners, leaders and citizens
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- 4. Transit is energy-efficient passenger-miles per gallon single occupant car bus with 40 passengers 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
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- 7. Transit saves familiesmoney Penny wise, pound foolish, CNT, March 2010
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- 9. Transit makes liveseasier
- 10. SO HOW DOWE BUILD EFFECTIVE TRANSIT?
- 11. Effective transit isnot about choosing a technology.
- 13. Las Vegas Monorail 23,000boardings a day
- 14. San Francisco “F”line 23,000 boardings a day
- 15. Good service In theright places
- 16. Good service means competitivetrip times
- 17. 5. Time, notspeed 18 min. 30 min.
- 18. Travel time, Downtownto TMC subway walk wait light rail leave garage trip enter garage car walk 0 10 20 30 Travel times from Google
- 19. ¼ mile walk= 5 min. ¼ mile walk = 5 min. 3 mile train ride, top speed 35 mph = 8.5 min 18.5 minutes
- 20. ¼ mile walk= 5 min. ¼ mile walk = 5 min. 3 mile train ride, top speed 35 mph = 8.5 min 18.5 minutes ¼ mile walk = 5 min. ½ mile walk = 10 min. 3 mile train ride, top speed 60 mph = 7 min 22 minutes
- 21. ¼ mile walk= 5 min. ¼ mile walk = 5 min. 3 mile train ride, top speed 35 mph = 8.5 min 18.5 minutes ¼ mile walk = 5 min. ½ mile walk = 10 min. 3 mile train ride, top speed 60 mph = 7 min 22 minutes ½ mile walk = 10 min. ¼ mile walk = 5 min. 3 mile train ride, top speed 35 mph = 6 min 21 minutes
- 22. Good service means reliabletrip times
- 23. Houston: Local busin mixed traffic
- 24. Houston: Park andRide bus in HOV lane
- 25. Houston: Light railin dedicated lane
- 26. Light Rail Park andRide Bus on time late Local Bus 0 20 40 60 80 100
- 27. Park & Ride:choice transit Transit use for Downtown workers by commute distance 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0-1 1-5 5-10 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 over 70 miles miles miles miles miles miles miles miles miles miles Downtown Houston Commute Survey Report, Central Houston, Inc., August 2009
- 28. Good service means highfrequency
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- 31. Commuter rail networks (toscale, with train frequency)
- 32. Commuter rail networks (toscale, with ridership)
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- 35. Houston: typical busnetwork
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- 37. Westheimer Street, Houstonbefore: 2 Routes, 6 Branches, Different Days of Operation 37
- 38. Westheimer Street, Houstonafter: 3 Routes, 0 Branches, 7 Days of Operation Ridership +19.5% 38
- 39. Good service means customerinformation
- 40. Portland: clear destinationinformation
- 41. Portland: Next Businformation
- 42. Trip planner Google Transit
- 43. Portland: display atthe airport
- 44. Good service means easytransfers
- 45. Houston: TMC TransitCenter
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- 47. Good service In theright places
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- 50. Length Houston 7.5 mi Dallas 72 mi Cost Houston $320m Dallas $3,800m Ridership Houston 35,700 / weekday Dallas 76,800 / weekday
- 51. The right placesmeans connecting centers
- 52. Employment center (BostonBack Bay) Transit (MBTA heavy rail and commuter rail)
- 53. TMC Texas Medical Center,Houston 14 hospitals with 6,800 beds 9 universities with 71,500 students 93,500 employees
- 54. Downtown Downtown Houston 140,000 employees 11fortune 500 companies Most theatre seats in US outside New York Baseball, Basketball, Soccer
- 55. 256,000 jobs within ½mile of 5 rail lines
- 56. Energy Corridor 2%transit use Downtown Uptown 37% transit use 7% transit use Medical Center 28% transit use Westchase 7% transit use Greenway 5% transit use
- 57. 6 new officetowers in Downtown Houston since light rail construction began
- 58. The right placesmeans multiple uses
- 59. ¾ of tripsare not home-to-work Nancy McGuckin and Nanda Srinivasan, 2005
- 60. Home Work Lunch Work Dinner Store Home
- 61. The right placesmeans serving density
- 62. BART: 104 miles, 370,200 weekday riders WMATA: 106 miles, 1,023,500 weekday riders
- 65. The right placesmeans stations in the center
- 66. richmondrail.org Houston: University Line freeway elevated option Houston: University Line arterial at grade option METRO
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- 69. arterial at gradeoption
- 70. freeway elevated option arterialat grade option: 40% more ridership
- 71. Houston: planned lightrail Downtown Greenway Uptown UH TMC
- 72. The right placesmeans a good pedestrian environment
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- 75. San Diego: CommercialStreet
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- 77. Good service In theright places
- 78. WHAT DOES ITTAKE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN?
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- 80. Developer Architect Zoning commissioner Public Traffic engineer services administrator Transit Public works planner engineer Ped-bike coordinator
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Editor's Notes
- #2 http://www.cnt.org/repository/pwpf.pdf
- #5 And new technology has other problems, too. You don’t want to be the first to try something out. The Las Vegas monorail was behind schedule, above budget, and it was shut down twice after it opened, once because pieces were falling off and landing on the sidewalk below. It’s working now, and it carries 23,000 trips a day…
- #6 ...but then so 1940s streetcars in San Francisco. Spot me one modern invention – air conditioning – and I can build you a quite functional transit system using 1880s technology.
- #7 The Main Street line takes 30 minutes to travel 7.5 miles: the trains only go 35mph. That sounds slow, but it’s not top speed that matters. It’s the overall tiemopf the tirp.
- #20 Let’s quantify that: a three mile train ride with a quarter mile walk at either end. With a top speed of 35mph – a light rail train running down a city street – that’s a 19 minute trip.
- #21 But 35 is slow, right? What happens if we go up to 60? Well, that makes the train part of the trip a bit shorter. But to go faster we had to put our train somewhere else – an abandoned railroad line, a freeway. But it’s unlikely that is going to be in the same place I want to go to. So my five minute walk at the end becomes a 10-minue walk, and the trip actually takes longer than before.
- #22 OR we can try to speed things up by having fewer stations. That actually speeds up the train trip more than a higher speed does. But once again I walk more, and the overall trip is longer.
- #38 As with any process, it was critical to choose a place to begin. In this case, the place to begin was obvious: the Westheimer Corridor, the corridor with the highest average daily ridership and the most complex route structure. In FY2005, METRO had 2 routes with 6 branches and different days of operation in this corridor. Through a 4-step process over 3 years, METRO converted this corridor from 2 routes with 6 branches and different days to 3 routes with 0 branches operating 7 days.
- #39 The goal of this effort was to improve customer service. Did we succeed? One of the best measurements of success in providing improved customer service is ridership. And in this case ridership in the Westheimer Corridor grew by 19.5% between FY2005 and FY2008.
- #40 And passenger information needs to be coordinated, too: one website with all the transit info for the whole area.
- #41 But transferring is not just about the physical connection. It’s about the fares as well. They do that well in Europe, too, and badly in the Bay Area. Caltrain uses one ticket, Muni uses another, BART uses a third. One trip might involve three different ticket vending machines. But in London one pass works on all train, underground, and bus.
- #44 But here’s the kicker: the Houston line is way more effective. It carries 2/3 as many trips for only 1/5 the cost.
- #58 New office towers: Hess (AKA Discovery) (2010), MainPlace (2010), 1000 Main (2003), Calpine (2003), 5 Houston Center (2002), Chevron (was Enron) (2002)
- #61 A good example: San Francisco vs. Washington. Two systems, started around the same time, built with the same technology, and with the same length of track. But DC’s system carries twice as many riders.
- #71 This is a functional light rail line. But would you want to walk here?
- #72 This is more like it, right? Every transit project should try to improve the pedestrian environment.
- #73 …and it has dozens.
- #74 So how do you get this stuff right? You involve the public. Not just to meet legal requirements, but because it will make for better transit.