TPB Board Working Session

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TPB Board Working Session

• Regional Transit System Characteristics
  FrameworkAugust 30, 2007

The TPB will develop a regional transit plan
including a comprehensive financial plan
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Todays Goals

• Review project process and status
• Review agree on regional transit corridors
• Present framework system
• Discuss framework in breakout groups
• Recap next steps for September board retreat

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TPB Value

• Unique focus
• Unique forum
• Unconstrained vision
• Consensus driven
• Leverages past investments

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TPB Work Plan and Timeline
Project Process
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Where Weve Been
Project Process
Review of Previous Regional Studies MARTA System
Plan RTIA RTAP RDP Envision6 Mobility 2030
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Regional Transit System Recommendation
TPB Project Assessment 63 transit
projects Ridership Land use/density Congestion
mitigation Cost cost-benefit
Regional Coordination TPB staff collaboration
(TPB, ARC, MARTA, GRTA GDOT) Technical
Committee input Counties, Operators, and
Stakeholders
Stakeholder Interviews 18 interviews conducted -
Regional system - All areas need transit -
Transit appropriate for area
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The Framework SystemA Major Milestone

• Confirms regional corridors
• Identifies service level intensity
• Identifies system connections
• Becomes the foundation for
• Regional Transit System Plan

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How We Identified Corridors
Transit Corridors

• Bottom-up What past studies project
  assessments show
• What the Technical Committee said
• Top-down What trip pattern data show

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Previous System PlanningMARTA, 1966
Transit Corridors
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Previous System PlanningARC, 1989
Transit Corridors
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Previous System PlanningGDOT, 1995
Transit Corridors
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Previous System Planning GRTA, 2002
Transit Corridors
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Previous System Planning ARC, 2004
Transit Corridors
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Previous System Planning MARTA, 2007
Transit Corridors
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Previous System PlanningARC, Ongoing
Transit Corridors
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TPBs Project Assessments
Transit Corridors

• Projects evaluated 63
• Address radial travel demand 37
• Address cross regional travel demand 11
• Address central core travel demand 15

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How Assessments Were Used
Transit Corridors

• Confirmed primary regional transit corridors
• Assessment allowed identification of
• 2030 trip estimates
• Core group of projects as basis of the framework
  system
• Framework system for developing regional system
  scenarios

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Initial System Scenarios
Transit Corridors

• Three potential, independent system scenarios
  developed for regional corridors using
• System characteristics
• Core framework
• Scenario themes
• Activity center connectivity
• Cost effectiveness customer service
• System integration

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Technical Committee Input
Transit Corridors

• Agreement on
• Corridor system characteristics
• Corridors and major travel sheds
• Needs-based analysis
• Focus on framework system,
• then modes and projects

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Regional Transit Corridors
Framework System

• Studies projects show
• Shift from radial to modified hub and spoke
• Radial focus on the central core
• Increasing cross-regional corridor service needs

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2030 Regional Travel Demand
Framework System

• Travel demand
• Varies by corridor
• Varies within corridors
• Demand signals appropriate service levels for
  corridors

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2030 Regional Transit Service Needs
Framework System

• Regional transit services should reflect
  intensity of demand
• Seamless Regional System requires support
• Local bus paratransit services
• Support facilities services
• Activity center circulator
• Network of express and regional bus service

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Framework System
Framework System

• Confirms regional corridors
• Identifies service level intensity
• Identifies system connections
• Becomes the foundation for Regional Transit
  System Plan

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Transit Service Levels Implications for
Transit Modes
Framework System
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Moving ForwardFrom Framework to Regional Plan
Framework System
System Characteristics Activity Center
focus Regional mobility congestion
mitigation Cost effective cost-benefit
requirements Customer focus Land use synergy
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Regional Transit System Recommendation
Framework System Initial scenarios Major
corridors needs Critical regional links
System Concepts Refined scenarios Funding
Governance Public engagement
Board Priorities August work session September
retreat
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Recap
Framework System

• Confirms regional corridors
• Identifies service level intensity
• Identifies system connections
• Becomes the foundation for Regional Transit
  System Plan

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Questions?
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Breakout Groups

• Join your group
• Appoint group scribe
• Discuss prepared questions
• Report back group responses

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Ground Rules

• Keep on topic on time.
• Respect this as Board work session.
• Present new ideas concisely.
• Allow others to speak.
• Speak one-at-a-time.
• Speak for yourself.
• Take the big-picture, regional view.
• Phrase things in the positive.
• Seek consensus.
• Invest in the process.

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The Questions

• Do the transit corridors seem right?
• Do the levels of 2030 travel demand and transit
  service seem right?
• Which system characteristics are most important
  to you for a regional transit system?
• What more do you need to know before your
  September 27th retreat?
• What can we do to improve this process going
  forward?

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Group Reports

• Answers to the questions
• Big points of discussion

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Next Steps

• Refine Framework System
• TPB Board member reaction and input
• Framework System implications for
• Funding
• Governance
• Public review and refinement
• Project definition
• Retreat discussion