Tennessee Transit 2025 October 7 Public Meeting Chattanooga

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Tennessee Transit 2025October 7 Public
MeetingChattanooga
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Tennessee Department of Transportation
Organization
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Office of Public Transportation What We Do

• Transit planning, marketing, and technical
  assistance
• Capital/operatingassistance
• Elderly/disabled programs
• Ridesharing assistance
• Transit system training
• Student internship program
• Park and ride lot development
• Resource coordination

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Tennessee Transit Today

• 23 transit agencies state-wide
• Ridership 29 million in 2001 (up 13.6 since
  1998)
• 45.6 million - capitalimprovements in 2001
• 106.9 million - operating funds in 2001

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State Transit Funding
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Metropolitan/Regional Transit

• Five Systems

RTA
25.8 million trips in 2001
660 Total Vehicles in 2001
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CARTAChattanooga Area Regional Transportation
Authority

• Fixed route service
• 10 routes, 2.9 million trips
• 86 vehicles, fully accessible
• Demand response
• 32,000 trips
• 8 community shuttle routes
• Free UT shuttle
• 18 electric/hybrid buses
• Successful Incline rail Lookout Mountain
• Traffic signal priority system
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

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Urban Transit Systems

• 6 Systems

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Trolley Systems
3 Systems
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Rural Public Transit11 Systems 95 Counties
649 vehicles
1.4 million trips in 2001

• Upper Cumberland HRA
• Southeast TN HRA
• Hamilton County
• East TN HRA
• Hancock County
• First TN HRA

1. Delta HRA
2. Northwest TN HRA
3. Southwest HRA
4. Mid-Cumberland HRA
5. South Central TN DD

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Hamilton CountyRural Transportation System

• County Served Hamilton
• Service Area Population 152,342
• Trips Provided in FY 2001 22,243
• Flex Ride program provides services for some
  underserved parts of county
• Red Bank route won award for improving county
  government services

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Southeast TNHuman Resource Agency

• Counties Served Bledsoe, Bradley,Grundy,
  Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Polk,Rhea and Sequatchie
• Service Area Population 258,361
• Trips Provided in FY 2001 102,391
• Collaborate with Cleveland to startservices from
  new transitcenter facility
• 12 driving simulators to train drivers

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Emerging Transit Markets

• Towns become urban Cleveland, Morristown
  and Murfreesboro
• New transit system City of Franklin in May 2003
  
• Service feasibility studies Murfreesboro and
  Sevierville
• Bus rapid transit study Gatlinburg, Pigeon
  Forge and Sevierville

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Transit System Issues

• Funding
• New technology
• Capital facilities
• Demand for paratransit service rising
  dramatically
• Service development and marketing
• Land use planning and development

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Transit Benefits(From Oak Ridge National
Laboratory)

• Access to employment and medical services
• Positive economic andenvironmental impacts
• Urban transit returns 2.00-2.50 for each 1.00
  invested
• Rural transit has positive cost-benefit ratio

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Transit Vision

• Customer-centeredalternatives toprivate
  automobiles
• TDOT is multimodalmobility manager

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What is the Transit Plan?
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2025 Transit Plan

• Part of TDOTs long-range multimodal plan
• Documents currenttransit services andfuture
  needs, costs,funding, marketing
• Identifies major future projects
• Contains transit agency and public input

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• Transit Plan

• Goals and Objectives
• Initial Findings
• Plan Schedule

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Draft Goals and Objectives

• Triple ridership by 2025
• Improve service quality and safety
• Create transit systems and services that enhance
  quality of life
• Establish stable/reliable funding
• Promote best practices
• Encourage public-private partnerships
• Develop user-friendlymodal connections

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Benefits of GrowingTransit Ridership by 2025

• Quality of Life
• Reduce traffic congestion
• Support livable communities
• Air Quality in Metropolitan Areas
• Social Benefits
• Transportation for older citizens others
• Economic costs of new infrastructure

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Transit Ridership Growth is Achievable!

• Increase service to match growth in population
• Start service in new emerging markets
• Construct New Start transit projects
• Memphis Light Rail
• Nashville Commuter Rail
• Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge / Sevierville BRT

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Transit Ridership Growth
Ridership in 2001 29 Million
Ridership in 2025 90 Million
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Programmatic Improvement Areas

• Vehicle Procurement
• Improve procurement process and reduce costs
• Planning
• TDOT facilitate peer review program among local
  transit agencies

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Programmatic Improvement Areas, cont.

• Safety and Training Oversight
• Enhance training
• Link up with insurers for training and technology
• Marketing
• Clarify roles for all parties (including TDOT)
• Help organize and support transit advocacy

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Programmatic Improvement Areas, cont.

• Technology Transfer
• TDOT overall transit technology program
  management
• Access TN university research centers for help

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Funding Objectives

• Predictable and consistent funding stream
• Adequate and growing
• Allows multi-year commitments to large capital
  projects
• Allows state to plan for or limit exposure for
  state share of high capital cost projects
• Funding alternatives will be developed in TDOT
  Multi-Modal Plan

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Cost of Additional Service
Operating Cost Requirements(millions of year
2000 dollars)
2002 Operating Costs 2010 Operating Costs
Rural Systems 19.2 M 22.4 M
Small Urban Systems 8.6 M 19.2 M
Metropolitan Systems 86.8 M 139.0 M
Total 111.7 M 174.1 M
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Cost of Additional Service
Capital Costs(millions of year 2000 dollars)
2003-2010 Capital Costs 2011-2025 Capital Costs
Rural Projects 43 M 91 M
Urban Projects Excluding New Starts 362 M 485 M
Urban New Start Projects 859 M 1,016 M
Total 1,264 M 1,592 M
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Options for New Local Funding

• Increase gasoline tax
• Increase non-gasoline motor fuel tax (diesel and
  CNG)
• Special sales tax
• Increase vehicle registration fee
• Vehicle excise / personal property tax

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Preparing the Plan

• Steering Committee
• Transit agencies speak out on goals/needs
• Extensive publicoutreach
• Stakeholder groups anduser surveys
• Details on TDOT Web Site
• TDOT.state.tn.us/TNTRANSIT25

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Plan Schedule

• June-October 2003 review, comment, public
  involvement
• Early fall 2003finalize as transit
  resourcedocument for long-range multimodal
  transportation plan

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Transit Plan is One Part of the Long-Range
Multimodal Plan

• Aviation Plan
• Bike/Pedestrian Plan
• Freight Plan
• Highway Plan
• Rail Plan
• Transit Plan
• The long-range multimodal planning process will
  begin this year and take about 18 months.

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Now its your turn . . . How you can help shape
the plan
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