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CHAPTER III STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF MAJOR TRANSIT SYSTEMS The New York State Department of Transportation is groupings. It will also provide an overview of trends in required by Section 18-b of Transportation Law to report “Effectiveness,” “Efficiency” and “Economy” statistical on the efficiency, effectiveness and economy of transit measures comprised of the following ratios: service. This Chapter addresses this requirement by presenting an overview of trends in the performance of C “Effectiveness” is measured by the revenue the State’s transit systems. passenger to revenue vehicle mile ratio; The Chapter is divided into two sections. C “Efficiency” is measured by the operating cost per revenue vehicle mile ratio; • A Statewide overview of the performance of transit systems, grouped by service type and C “Economy” is measured by the operating common market characteristics. revenue to operating cost ratio. • A detailed reporting on the status and Effectiveness, efficiency and economy performance performance of specific transit systems that measure figures in this report include data for all report financial and operating statistics to the sponsored operators that reported 17-a statistics for Department of Transportation under the 2001. Prior to the 2001 edition, tables have included requirements of Section 17-a of State financial and operational data for the largest systems Transportation Law. within the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Commuter District. Thus the more comprehensive five In 2001, the Department of Transportation, Passenger year statistics in this report will not in every case match Transportation Division engaged in an extensive effort to those found in previous Transit Annual Reports. Non- improve the quality, consistency and management of the urbanized and small city systems are not required to data it collects under both the 17a and STOA formula submit 17-a statistics. The SUZAs that are included in payment processes. this analysis are: the Utica Transit Authority (UTA), Greater Glens Falls Transit (GGFT), Broome County This Report presents the operating statistics overview Transit, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT), material on a calendar year basis, consistent with the 17-a and the Chemung County Transit System (CCTS). reporting years of the vast majority of transit systems that are covered in the more detailed section of the report on specific transit systems. The New York State Department of Transportation classifies transit systems as either downstate or upstate. Downstate systems serve the Metropolitan Transportation Commuter District and include: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) - New York City Transit (MTA-NYCT), two MTA commuter rail operations, and local bus systems serving the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Dutchess, Putnam, Orange, and Rockland. Systems serving the remainder of the State comprise the upstate transit system grouping, including the four public transportation authorities, intercity bus operations and systems serving small urbanized areas (SUZAs), non- urbanized area counties, and small cities. The overview section of this chapter will summarize five year ridership and vehicle mile trends by these service III-1 RIDERSHIP TRENDS MTA NYC Transit ridership in 2001 accounted for 83.9 The State Operating Assistance Program (STOA) percent of NYS ridership. In total NYC transit provided statewide ridership reached its highest level -- 2.56 billion service to 2.2 billion passengers, in 2001. MTA NYCT passengers -- since the inception of the STOA program in bus experienced a 5.9% increase in their ridership in 1974. STOA-eligible ridership has risen at an annualized 2001, providing 740 million passenger trips. Ridership rate of 3.48 percent from 1991 to 2001. Downstate on MTA NYCT Subway grew by 1.8 percent despite systems account for 97.4 percent of total statewide service disruptions in some areas due to infrastructure ridership, 89.0 percent of which is attributable to transit damage inflicted by the collapse of the World Trade operations within New York City. Upstate systems serve Center buildings on September 11th and the subsequent 2.6 percent of New York State’s (NYS) transit riders. loss of jobs located in New York City. Figure III-1 shows downstate ridership increasing by 2.9 MTA Commuter Rail services ridership was virtually percent from 2000 to 2001. The largest increase occurred unchanged from the 2000 level, with an increase of just on the NYC Transit bus systems where 41 million more under 1 percent. Over 138 million revenue passengers trips were made in 2001 than in 2000. Figure III-1 Downstate Revenue Passengers NEW YORK STATE CY CY CY CY %Change % Change % Change SYSTEMS 1991 1997 2000 2001 91 to 01 97 to 01 00 to 01 NYCT: Subway 1,000,582,752 1,135,892,614 1,385,191,735 1,410,293,368 40.9% 24.2% 1.8% Bus 455,566,153 540,912,155 698,898,862 739,997,360 62.4% 36.8% 5.9% Paratransit N/A 735,083 1,696,269 2,017,217 N/A 174.4% 18.9% NYCT Subtotal: 1,456,148,905 1,677,539,852 2,085,786,866 2,152,307,945 47.8% 28.3% 3.2% Commuter Rail: LIRR 73,314,178 78,642,913 85,339,521 85,526,669 16.7% 8.8% 0.2% MNCR (A) 40,344,350 46,377,741 51,439,153 52,499,109 30.1% 13.2% 2.1% Commuter Rail Subtotal: 113,658,528 125,020,654 136,778,674 138,025,778 21.4% 10.4% 0.9% MTA Total: 1,569,807,433 1,802,560,506 2,222,565,540 2,290,333,723 45.9% 27.1% 3.0% Other New York City: Staten Island Ferry 19,640,658 17,730,859 18,501,051 18,174,833 -7.5% 2.5% -1.8% NYC Private Bus 82,341,085 86,468,290 110,606,797 112,668,479 36.8% 30.3% 1.9% Other NYC Total: 101,981,743 104,199,149 129,107,848 130,843,312 28.3% 25.6% 1.3% Suburban Bus Systems: Westchester Co. 28,570,565 29,688,391 29,719,945 29,655,281 3.8% -0.1% -0.2% Nassau Co. 26,366,156 26,662,693 30,056,678 30,919,077 17.3% 16.0% 2.9% Suffolk Co. 4,069,062 4,858,621 4,801,987 5,002,731 22.9% 3.0% 4.2% Rockland Co. 4,031,274 4,098,465 4,653,628 4,689,419 16.3% 14.4% 0.8% Other Formula Bus (B) 2,522,777 2,693,429 2,749,611 2,800,355 11.0% 30.3% 1.9% Downstate Suburban Bus: 65,559,834 68,001,599 71,981,849 73,066,863 11.5% 7.4% 1.5% Intercity Bus Companies 1,336,756 1,713,365 1,863,773 1,807,637 35.2% 5.5% -3.0% Trans-Hudson Service (C) 151,831 231,137 237,238 253,356 66.9% 9.6% 6.8% Downstate Total: 1,738,837,597 1,976,705,756 2,425,756,248 2,496,304,891 43.6% 26.3% 2.9% A) Includes only revenue passengers with origins and destinations in New York State. B) Other Formula Bus Systems: Dutchess Co., Orange Co., Putnam Co., City of Long Beach, City of Glen Cove and City of Poughkeepsie. C) Tappan Zee Bridge Bus Service provided under contract to Rockland County. III-2 Figure III-2 Upstate Revenue Passengers NEW YORK STATE CY CY CY CY %Change % Change % Change SYSTEM 1991 1997 2000 2001 91 to 01 97 to 01 00 to 01 Upstate Authorities: NFTA 30,621,176 22,915,958 23,268,469 22,373,173 -26.9% -2.4% -3.8% R-GRTA 15,127,894 13,352,766 13,571,646 14,178,802 -6.3% 6.2% 4.5% CNYRTA 11,702,786 9,370,760 8,607,900 9,402,116 -19.7% 0.3% 9.2% CDTA 10,946,805 9,694,406 9,601,497 10,587,027 -3.3% 9.2% 10.3% Upstate Authority Total: 68,398,66 55,333,890 55,049,512 56,541,118 -17.3% 2.2% 2.7% Small Urbanized Area (SUZA): Broome County Transit 2,624,112 3,033,774 2,742,840 2,665,832 1.6% -12.1% -2.8% Utica-Rome Urbanized Area Utica Transit Authority N/A 1,990,662 1,231,368 1,129,227 N/A -43.3% -8.3% City of Rome, VIP 362,751 243,246 243,162 247,163 -31.9% 1.6% 1.6% Chemung County Transit (A) 1,104,826 870,579 752,059 739,481 -33.1% -15.1% -1.7% Tompkins/Ithaca Urbanized Tompkins County (B) 1,188,420 1,479,451 2,609,403 2,692,451 33.2% 14.6% 3.2% City of Ithaca (C) 832,946 869,122 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Greater Glens Falls Transit 242,681 284,901 319,690 316,448 30.4% 11.1% -1.0% 1) SUZA Total 6,355,736 8,771,735 7,898,522 7,790,602 22.6% -11.2% -1.4% 2) Small City and County 6,163,196 3,178,582 3,271,548 3,484,861 -43.5% 9.6% 6.5% City/County Systems (1+2) 12,518,932 11,950,317 11,170,070 11,275,463 -9.9% -5.6% 0.9% Intercity Bus Companies (D) (E) 922,036 1,018,507 127,105 121,887 -86.8% -88.0% -4.1% Upstate Total: 81,839,629 68,302,714 66,346,687 67,938,468 -17.0% -0.5% 2.4% A) Includes services provided by the operator in Tioga, Schuyler and Chemung Counties.