Cellular Mass Transit (CMT)

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• Cellular Mass Transit (CMT)
• CMT4Austin.org

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SOLUTION Cellular Mass Transit
Circulator Routes would converge on each Transit
Center
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A Feeder Van in Austin could be like the Airport
Parking Shuttle
Seats 14 Luggage Rack High enough to stand in
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Percentage of Home to Work trips that can be made
by public transit in under 90 minutes
Portland 40 Washington DC 37 Austin 39
From Brookings Institute Missed Opportunity
Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America
http//www.brookings.edu//media/Files/Programs/M
etro/jobs_transit/0512_jobs_transit.pdf
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MANY TO ONE
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ONE NBHD TO MANY
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MANY TO MANY
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Travel To From North Central Austin
Squares are groups that live in NCA and work in
other parts of town. Most workers from NCA go
to jobs in low density zip codes.
Circles are groups that live Outside NCA and
work in NCA Square with rounded corners are
people that live and work in NCA
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To From North Central Austin
Numbers traveling, home to work, both to and from
North Central. This shows why a many-to-many
express network is needed to serve all of the
riders traveling to and from north central.
The zNSA prefix stands for not in the service
area. As the service area is defined now, Capital
metro does not serve Round Rock.
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From North Austin to all corners of the city
Eight express routes connect NCA to all other
transit centers in all other parts of town.
Express routes stop only at transit centers
Express van, or bus, leaves every ten minutes
Most routes bypass the congestion of the city
center
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Rider Group Size by destination for Peak and Off
Peak
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Advantages for your Neighborhood

• Travel anywhere to anywhere
• Travel time cut in half
• Wait time cut to one third
• Routes within half mile of every home
• Transit Center waiting room with AC
• TC next to shopping and Community Center
• Community Center has day care

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Sample trip from Parkfield and Braker to Oltorf
and Alvine Devane
OLD WAY IS SLOW, 124 minutes
CMT FASTER, 73 minutes
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Travel Time Reduced
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OLD WAY IS SLOW

• 124 Minutes
• Lots of Stops
• Four buses, three transfers
• Long waits between buses on 392 and 331
• Worst case transfer gt 30 minutes
• Through Congestion of CBD

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CMT would be FASTER

• 73 Minutes
• Few Stops
• 5 minute transfers
• Avoids Congestion of CBD

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Annual Stats
In millions
CMT
CMT
Conventional low mileage system Conventional low mileage system Conventional low mileage system Conventional low mileage system
MVM AROB MPM
BUS 13 9.2 120
CMT
CMT high mileage system CMT high mileage system CMT high mileage system
MVM AROB MPM
VAN 74 5 370
BUS 6 21.7 130
80 500
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Feeder Route Subsidy per Mile
boardings per mile 2.3
fare per rider 0.50
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Van would have ¼ subsidy per mile on express
routes
average riders on board 7 7
fares per pass-mile 0.12 0.12
   
EXPRESS VAN BUS
MPH 25 25
FARES per HOUR 21.00 21.00
COST PER HOUR 38.55 91.53
SUBSIDY PER HOUR 17.55 70.53
SUBSIDY PER MILE 0.70 2.82

RATIO OF SUBSIDIES 4.0 4.0
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Transit by Van

• Dollar vans of Brooklyn NY operate with no
  subsidy
• Vans provide 45 trips per hour while city bus
  provides only 4
• 800 vans have 100 to 120 thousand boardings per
  day.
• Vans are a big part of public transit in many
  developing countries.

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Transfer from Circulator to Express
Transit Center Floor Plan
Feeder van
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HEB storage sheds at South First and William
Cannon
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TC CC near HEB
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Traveler Response to Transportation System
ChangesChapter 10Bus Routing and Coverage
http//onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt
_95c10.pdf page 10-9
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MONTHLY COSTS OF PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION
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CMT Capital Costs
Cost Cost
Quantity thousand millions Paid for by
Transit Centers 22 times 3,000 equals 66 Cap Metro
Vans 800 times 50 equals 40 Cap Metro
Queue Jumpers 40 times 250 equals 10 Cap Metro
Community Centers 22 times 3,000 equals 66 City of Austin

Total Cost
182
millions
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Routes with Boardings per trip under 14
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Capital Costs Per Rider

• Commuter Rail
• Urban Rail
• Van Pool
• Express Bus
• Feeder Van
• Express Van

• 100,000
• 130,000 to 1,000,000
• 2,500
• 1,250
• 800
• 500

Commuter Rail 100 Million / 1000 riders
100,000 per rider
Urban Rail in 2020 1.7 billion / 1,600
riders gt 1,000,000
Urban Rail in 2030 1.7 billion / 13,000
riders 130,000
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Bang for the Buck
130,000 will buy either

• One new urban train rider
• OR
• 52 new riders using Van Pools
• OR
• 83 new riders using Feeder Vans

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Connections with CMT and UR
Percentage of All Possible Home to Work Trips

• CMT .90 x .90 .81
• 81 for CMT

UR .09 x .20 .018 1.8 , less than 2
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Conclusion CMT will

• Double the number of jobs that can be reached by
  public transit
• Enable riders to accomplish more tasks with one
  trip.
• Enable workers from your neighborhood to get to
  jobs all over Austin.
• Improve public transit without racking up a
  billion debt.

QUESTIONS ?
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