Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design Hacienda Business Park

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Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design
Hacienda Business Park

• Steve Raney, James Paxson, David Maymudes
• EPA Collaborative Sustainability Network grant
  Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages
• A planning study design details
• Last mile PRT solution interacting with transit
  carpooling
• Suburban job center / edge city
• ? Helpful for other locations applications
• See maps.

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PRT Personal Rapid Transit

• Feeder / Distributor / Circulator
• Similar to a monorail. Video, MS Campus
• High service level, no waiting, faster than a
  car.
• Non-stop, 30 MPH
• Bypasses intermediate stations
• Ride alone or with 1-2 people you choose
• Convenient stops by buildings (not on street)
• Comfortable, quiet, safe, no exhaust
• 24x7
• 6 development efforts underway
• UK, Sweden, Korea, MN, TX, Dubai.

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Comprehensive, Integrated MobilityDoor to Door
Centralized Cars share, rent, ride home
Delivery services, Personal activities, Business
services

• Web/wireless coordination
• Supportive policy context
• Scale!

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Hacienda (HBP) Background

• End of BART
• Beyond East Bay hills edge of Bay Area
• Fastest growing
• Worst commute stats
• 83 SOV
• 11 rideshare
• 1 BART
• 0.7 bus
• 1.7 bike/ped.

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Hacienda Business Park, Pleasanton

• 10 MM s.f. (3BB)
• 19,000 jobs
• Auto-centered
• 3,500 residents
• HBP 2015
• 9,500 residents
• 29,000 jobs
• 1MM s.f. retail
• 185 edge cities.

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Hacienda PRT

• Jobs, retail, housing, parks
• 15 mi one-way track
• 47 stations
• Huge mixed use transit village
• More complicated
• MS campus
• Stanfrd Rsrch Pk.

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Design people map

• Connect the dots
• 1,000 people per PRT station (goal 1,000 trips)
• How do you get this data?
• 615, 700, 772, , 1364, 1400, 1700.

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Design200 meter walk radius
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Design Superblocks, etc

• Ped hostility (visual boredom, fast cars)
• Avoid pedestrian street crossings (Dont have a
  PRT station serve two sides of a street)
• 3 canals. 3 crossings with inexpensive
  prefabricated bridges (avoid a PRT station).

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HBPSingle Family Homes
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Design Superblocks, etc

• Focus?
• Distance to office front door?
• Guideway length?
• Curves / ride quality / speed?

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• 4 Tranport Hubs
• Carsharing
• Bus stops

• SFH crossing
• Inexpensive bridge
• Homeowner concerns.

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3 PRT loops

• Semi-independent for higher capacity

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Horizontal mixed use

• Urban mixed use convenience walk to a quart of
  milk. 4 story apts, retail on first floor.
• HBP (great mix of uses, via auto access)
• IKEA, Best Buy, Pier 1, Barnes and Noble, Bed
  Bath and Beyond, Old Navy, WalMart
• Recreation gyms, spas, creekside hiking/biking
  trails, city parks, and a 20-screen multiplex
  cinema with IMAX
• Variety of shops and restaurants at varying price
  points
• Services daycare, bank, copy-making, financial,
  real-estate, dry cleaners, dentist, doctor,
  optometrist, childrens educational centers,
  middle school, tanning, and nail salons
• Thus, PRTwalk (horizonal movement) to access
  uses.
• HBP will in-fill w/ walkable mixed use over time.

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Ridership Guesstimate

• Pencil out a biz case 57K trips/day (thus 3
  loops)
• 3 PRT trips per day per resident
• 9,500 residents
• 29,000 workers
• 0.5 shopping/recreation, 0.5 commute-related
• residents more trips per person
• Needs research.

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PRT Grocery Shopping?

• Hook N Go

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Flexpooling Workers cooperate to reduce traffic
along specific corridors. HBP workers with long
commutes (and empty seats) spend a few minutes to
pick up workers with shorter commutes.
Village Pkwy Route
Dougherty Rd. Route
San Ramon Road Route
Hacienda PRT System
20 cars per hour Cellular FasTrak/RFID
Taxis/shuttles too Background checks, arrival
verification, reputation ratings Some drivers
leave I680 early to make pickups.
Santa Rita Road Route
Valley Ave. Route
Hopyard Road Route
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Promising Results (85 surveys)

• Remove 5,000 autos, in-fill 50 acres
• Huge transit village ? land value increase
• 1.4 PRT trips/day/worker PRT profitable
• Apply to 6M workers in major emp. centers
• 1.98M cars, 12B VMT, 424M gals, 4MM tons CO2 .

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Political Chances for HBP PRT?
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THE END
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Why is BART ridership low?

• Doesnt match O/D
• Limited parking at many BART stations
• Auto welcoming policy at job site (vs. downtown
  SF 20 per day parking)
• Serpentine BART routes

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Cellular Solutions

• Marauders Map (GPS)
• Transit, rideshare connections
• Like NextBus
• Get home safe (Big Sister is watching).

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Steve Raney Resume

• Cities21 (next generation smart growth) founder
• Palo Alto, CA. Bay Area
• Columbia MBA, RPI Computer Science Masters,
  Berkeley Transportation Planning Masters
• Project Mgr BART Group Rapid Transit Study
• MS Technology Evangelist, Silicon Valley
• GPS / cellular commute trip reduction patents
• 6 Transportation Research Board, 2 TRR papers
• Habitat for Humanity Training Coordinator.