About YoloGOYoloGO is Yolobus’ Comprehensive Operations Analysis effort.

This Comprehensive Operational Analysis (COA) of YCTD public transportation services, funding, and administrative policies and practices is a thorough review of YCTD transit services, based on extensive data collection and analysis and on public input.

Yolo County is large and diverse, with urban, suburban, and rural areas, a world-class university, and changing residential and employment patterns.

Across the river, the City of Sacramento is the capital of California and the region’s historic employment center. To the south, Solano County and the City of Vacaville includes educational and medical facilities important to County and City of Winters residents.

The eight-month process focused on four key objectives:

Take a fresh look at YCTD services

Evaluate the transit network in terms of today’s needs and

future needs

Identify cost-efficient improvements to routes and overall

operations

Increase ridership

and revenue

20192020

JULY

Jurisdictional MeetingStakeholder Questionnaire

OCTOBER - NOVEMBER

Pop-up WorkshopsVirtual Community Workshop

FEBRUARY

Stakeholder Meeting

MARCH

Community Workshops

Timeline

MAY

COA Adoption byYCTD Board

APRIL

Revised COA Presentedto YCTD Board

On and off-boarding data

Route performance in ridership Route performance in productivity

Data Driven ApproachTypes of transit-related data collected during this effort include:

• On and off-boarding data for each bus stop, on each route

• Route performance in ridership

• Route performance in productivity

Additionally, the YoloGO team collected demographic data for Yolo County, including:

• Residential density

• Job density

• Activity density

• Household density

• Poverty density

• Zero-vehicle households

Demographic Data for Yolo County

Demographic Data for Yolo County

During Phase I of the YoloGO effort, the team held a series of five pop-up workshops in Davis, West Sacramento, and Woodland + one virtual workshop.

Questions asked about community members’ preferences for types of transit service, frequency of transit service, and the transit service improvement most needed in the region.

Public Outreach What We Heard

150+ community members engaged in-person

430+ community members engaged online

Do you currently useYolobus transit services?

60% Yes

40%No

Which would you choose:More frequent service or

more bus routes serving more destinations?

What We Heard (continued)

Which would you choose: faster bus ride or easier access to bus stops?

Which type of service improvement do you see as a greater need: local versus commuter service?

I will do whatever it takes to get to my destination soonest

I mostly prefer shorter waits

I’m not sure / I don’t have a preference

I mostly prefer shorter walks

I’ll would rather avoid a walk, even if I have to wait longer

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I will do whatever it takes to get to my destination soonest

I mostly prefer shorter waits

I’m not sure / I don’t have a preference

I mostly prefer shorter walks

I would rather avoid a walk, even if I have to wait longer

Local service

The current distribution of bus service is just right

Commuter/Express service76%

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Improved commuter / express service

Improved local service

The distribution of bus service types is just right

Commuter / Express service

Improved local service

The current distribution of bus service is just right

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Recommendations

What are your thoughts about the proposed recommendation to increase frequencyon Routes 42A and 42B?

Increase FrequencyEstablish 30-minute frequency on Routes 42A and 42B

Routes 42A and 42B are the core routes in the Yolobus network. They account for one-third of all ridership and more than 40% of weekend ridership.

Many studies and recent reimagining projects elsewhere have shown that increasing frequency is the most effective action to increase ridership. No all-day Yolobus route operates more frequently than one bus per hour. Public comments in the virtual workshop show the difficulties in planning regular trips and using transit at this level of frequency.

While 30-minute service is not considered “frequent” in transit (usually frequent service means every 15 minutes or better), early results from a similar COA effort nearby (SacRT Forward) show that consistent 30-minute service can reverse a downward trend in ridership.

to fixed route service

Streamline / Shorten RoutesStreamline routes where necessary to minimize out-of-direction travel and travel through congested reas such as downtown Sacramento.

Proposed routes to streamline / shorten are located in Downtown Sacramento, West Sacramento, and Davis.

Create New Path for Express RoutesEstablish a single route path in Downtown Sacramento for express routes from Davis and Woodland.

Recommendationsto fixed route service

What are your thoughts about this proposed recommendationto the Downtown Sacramento network?

Recommendationsto fixed route serviceStreamline / Shorten RoutesStreamline routes where necessary to minimize out-of-direction travel and travel through congested reas such as downtown Sacramento.

Proposed routes to streamline / shorten are located in Downtown Sacramento, West Sacramento, and Davis.

What are your thoughts about this proposed recommendationto the West Sacramento network?

Recommendationsto fixed route serviceStreamline / Shorten RoutesStreamline routes where necessary to minimize out-of-direction travel and travel through congested areas such as downtown Sacramento.

Proposed routes to streamline / shorten are located in Downtown Sacramento, West Sacramento, and Davis.

What are your thoughts about this proposed recommendationto the Davis network?

What are your thoughts about the proposed recommendations for regional peak transit?

Recommendations to fixed route service

Restructure Local Routes in WoodlandRestructure local service in Woodland to a five-route network to be more direct, provide cross-city connections, and enhance connections to the County Courthouse and downtown Woodland.

Routes A, B, and C can be interlined in both directions, with a 90-minute cycle time in each direction. Routes D and E can also be interlined in both directions with a cycle time of 30 minutes. If Routes 42A/42B operate every 30 minutes, Routes A and C would meet the buses at the top of the hour and Routes D and E would meet the buses at the bottom of the hour. There would be a bus from the County Fair Mall Transit Center to the Courthouse every half hour.

Ridership and productivity are low on the Woodland local routes (210, 211, 212, and 214), partly due to low frequency of service (hourly) and partly because the existing network is circuitous and confusing. Each route is a one-way single-direction route, so if a rider wants to return home it requires taking a different-numbered route.

What are your thoughts about this proposed recommendation to the Woodland network?

Recommendationsto fixed route service

Recommendations

Reallocate ResourcesTo minimize the added cost of operating Routes 42A/42B every 30 minutes, Yolobus may need to discontinue some of the least productive existing routes. In a scenario where there is no additional funding available, the following routes could be discontinued:

• 35, 39, 241 (West Sacramento)

• 216, 217 (Knights Landing, Dunnigan)

• 44, 232 (Davis)

• 45X, 46, 242, 243 (Woodland)

If Yolobus is able to increase operating funds by 10%, several of these routes could continue to operate.

to fixed route service

What are your thoughts about the proposed recommendation to cancel unproductive routes?

Other RecommendationsMicrotransit• Continue operating the microtransit pilot taking place in

Knight’s Landing (YOUR Ride)

• Address requests for additional trials

• Woodland

• Winters

• Explore vanpool options

• Dunnigan

• Davis Migrant Center

• Other areas?

Improve on-time performance• Change running times to improve on-time performance

Bus-only / HOV lanes on I-80 and I-5• Explore the possibility of establishing bus-only or HOV lanes

on I-5 and I-80, which are very congested during peak periods, especially in the afternoon.

• While bus-only or HOV lanes are beyond the control of Yolobus, this study notes that conversion of shoulders on interstate highways to bus-only lanes has been successful elsewhere as a short-term solution to improve the speed of express buses.

What are your thoughts about these proposed recommendations?

Let us know your thoughts!

Submit a comment card to the YoloGO team today

Review the full draft Comprehensive Operations Analysis Report onlineVisit www.yolobusgo.com to download the report as a PDF.

We encourage you to submit your feedback by March 25You can email any additional comments you have to yolobusgo@yctd.org