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Sustainable Urbanism Summit – CNU New England, April 3, 2009
Jason Schrieber, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting 1
Transit!
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What is at Stake?
Thanks to Projjal Dutta, NYMTA
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Transportation50%
Residential11%
Oil Refining6% Electricity
)local( Generation7%
Industrial/Commercial
26%
Source: BAAQMD
Transportation is 40-50% of our CO2 Problem
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Which travel choices are “Green?”
Thanks to Projjal Dutta, NYMTA
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What we already know…
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Transit Planning 101 (in under 18 minutes)
Travel time
Cost
Reliability
Dignity
What influences your decision?
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Successful transit operation must offer its passengers dignity
Making transit work
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Most Transit in New England
Spreads investment out, serving all areas equally
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Coverage vs. Productivity
Low Ridership- but really important for the people
who use it
“Mobility for people who need it!”
“Get cars off the road!”
High Ridership- but no service in many places
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Politics-Based Transit
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Rule 1: Transit Follows Density
•As density increases, so does potential market
•Density allows for increases in frequency
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Rule 2: Ridership Follows Frequency
•Frequencies every 12 minutes or better start to attract “choice riders”
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Rule 3: Ridership Follows Travel Time
•If it’s faster to take the bus or train, people will use it in droves
•True for buses as well as rail
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Moral
If we want sustainable communities, we must invest in fast, efficient transit. This is geometry, not ideology.
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Street Capacity and Geometry
Cars on a street
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Street Capacity and Geometry
People in Cars
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Street Capacity and Geometry
People on a bus
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Accommodating growth with transit
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Auto Regularbus
Semi-rapid bus
Light rail
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Accommodating growth with transit
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Six lanes for alltraffic
Four lanes plussemi-rapid bus
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Time for Pretty Pictures of Trains
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Now the Streetcars
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Tallaght, Germany
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Lyon, France
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Strasbourg, France
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Ah, the “Affordable” BRT
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Istanbul, Turkey
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One important consideration:
$
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3 Points:
•Keep it simple
•Make it legible
•Stop focusing on park & ride
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Quito, Ecuador
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L.A.’s Rapid Bus
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Dignity
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Coverage vs. Productivity
Low Ridership- but really important for the people
who use it
“Mobility for people who need it!”
“Get cars off the road!”
High Ridership- but no service in many places
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2. Legibility (What good is a stop without info?)
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Info
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Nothing fancy
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•Transit oriented development (TOD)
3. Stop thinking park & ride
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Stop thinking park & ride
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Ridership trends “Before” TOD and parking management
Ridership trends “After” TOD and parking management
Stop thinking park & ride
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Reinventing Transit
•Is transit system expansion the answer?
•FTA thinks so. They fund projected NEW riders… not making it better for existing riders
•Why must transit agencies compete against each other for a shrinking pie? Do DOTs compete for road money?
•Why shouldn’t transit compete against highway projects for solving air quality, mobility and CO2 problems?
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Deg
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Source: GISS
Global Average Temperature at Earth's Surface (Land-Ocean Index), 1880-2003
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