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BUS TRANSFORMATION PROJECT White Paper #2: Strategic Considerations October 2018 DRAFT: For discussion purposes 1 1 I• Purpose of White Paper II• Vision & goals for bus as voiced by stakeholders III• Key definitions IV• Strategic considerations Table of V• Deep-dive chapters to support each strategic consideration Contents 1. What is the role of Buses in the region? 2. Level of regional commitment to speeding up Buses? 3. Regional governance / delivery model for bus? 4. What business should Metrobus be in? 5. What services should Metrobus operate? 6. How should Metrobus operate? VI• Appendix: Elasticity of demand for bus 2 DRAFT: For discussion purposes I. Purpose of White Paper 3 DRAFT: For discussion purposes Purpose of White Paper 1. Present a set of strategic 2. Provide supporting analyses 3. Enable the Executive considerations for regional relevant to each consideration Steering Committee (ESC) to bus transformation in a neutral manner set a strategic direction for bus in the region 4 DRAFT: For discussion purposes This paper is a thought piece; it is intended to serve as a starting point for discussion and a means to frame the ensuing debate 1. Present a The strategic considerations in this paper are not an set of strategic exhaustive list of all decisions to be made during this considerations process; they are a set of high-level choices for the Bus Transformation Project to consider at this phase of for regional strategy development bus transformation Decisions on each of these considerations will require trade-offs to be continually assessed throughout this effort 5 DRAFT: For discussion purposes Each strategic consideration in the paper is 2. -
Sponsored by Arlington County
Sponsored by Arlington County Department of Environmental Services Department of Human Services Department of Parks and Recreation A REV 03/16 H 2484 ARLINGTON COUNTY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR OLDER ADULTS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AT-A-GLANCE This brochure gives Arlington residents age 60 and over an overview of the many transportation services available. Each program listed has details outlining eligibility requirements and includes phone numbers and/or a web address for more information and applications. Together these programs provide a wide range of options designed to meet specific needs. Fees are varied based on the individual program. Please note: Some of the transit options listed are for individuals with disabilities, and there is no age requirement to use these services. Please see each program for more information and point of contact. NOTE: TTY stands for Text Telephone. It is a special device that lets people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-impaired use the phone to communicate. A TTY is required at both ends of the conversation in order to communicate. TABLE OF CONTENTS Accessible and Inexpensive Public Transportation Arlington Transit - ART Discount ...............2 Metro Discount & Senior SmarTrip Card .........3 Metro Travel Training ........................4 Assisted Public Transportation for People with Disabilities Metro Access ...............................5 STAR (Specialized Transit for Arlington Residents)..........................6 STAR Assisted Transportation Services ..........8 STAR Temporary -
Public Transportation
TRANSPORTATION NETWORK DIRECTORY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND ADULTS 50+ MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Montgomery County, Maryland (‘the County’) cannot guarantee the relevance, completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of the information provided on the non-County links. The County does not endorse any non-County organizations' products, services, or viewpoints. The County is not responsible for any materials stored on other non-County web sites, nor is it liable for any inaccurate, defamatory, offensive or illegal materials found on other Web sites, and that the risk of injury or damage from viewing, hearing, downloading or storing such materials rests entirely with the user. Alternative formats of this document are available upon request. This is a project of the Montgomery County Commission on People with Disabilities. To submit an update, add or remove a listing, or request an alternative format, please contact: [email protected], 240-777-1246 (V), MD Relay 711. MetroAccess and Abilities-Ride MetroAccess Paratransit – Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) MetroAccess is a shared-ride, door-to-door public transportation service for people who are unable to use fixed-route public transit due to disability. "Shared ride" means that multiple passengers may ride together in the same vehicle. The service provides daily trips throughout the Transit Zone in the Washington Metropolitan region. The Transit Zone consists of the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland, Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church in Northern Virginia. Rides are offered in the same service areas and during the same hours of operation as Metrorail and Metrobus. -
Purple Line Functional Plan? 6 Table 9 Stewart Avenue to CSX/WMATA Right-Of-Way 23
Approved and Adopted September 2010 purple line F u n c t i o n a l P l a n Montgomery County Planning Department The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission P u r p l e L i n e F u n c t i o n a l P l a n I A p p r o v e d a n d A d o p t e d 1 p u r p l e l i n e f u n c t i o n a l p l a n Approved and Adopted a b s t r a c t The Commission is charged with preparing, adopting, and amending or extending The General Plan (On Wedges and Corridors) for the Physical This plan for the Purple Line transit facility through Montgomery County Development of the Maryland-Washington Regional District in Montgomery contains route, mode, and station recommendations. It is a comprehensive and Prince George’s Counties. amendment to the approved and adopted 1990 Georgetown Branch Master Plan Amendment. It also amends The General Plan (On Wedges and The Commission operates in each county through Planning Boards Corridors) for the Physical Development of the Maryland-Washington appointed by the county government. The Boards are responsible for all Regional District in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, as local plans, zoning amendments, subdivision regulations, and amended, the Master Plan of Highways for Montgomery County, the administration of parks. Countywide Bikeways Functional Master Plan, the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Master Plan, the Bethesda Central Business District Sector Plan, the Silver The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission encourages Spring Central Business District and Vicinity Sector Plan, the North and West the involvement and participation of individuals with disabilities, and its Silver Spring Master Plan, the East Silver Spring Master Plan, and the facilities are accessible. -
Statewide Public Transportation and Transportation Demand Management Plan
Statewide Public Transportation and Transportation Demand Management Plan Commonwealth of Virginia January 2014 FINAL THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Chapter 3 Planning Context and InvestmentChapterFrom Considerations 1 Introductionthe Director From the Director egardless of where you live and work underway. The Tide light rail system in Norfolk is now providing access Rin Virginia, the Virginia Department of to major areas such as Norfolk State University, Tidewater Community Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) is College (Norfolk Campus), Harbor Park, City Hall, MacArthur Center, working with federal, state, regional, local and the Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. And, in Northern Virginia, the and private sector partners to bring you Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project is currently underway. When completed, better transportation choices. There are the Dulles project will connect the National Capital Region to Virginia's 54 public transit systems and 55 human largest employment center (Tysons Corner), Virginia's second largest service operators in Virginia that range in employment concentration (Reston-Herndon) and one of the world’s size from two-bus programs in small towns busiest airports (Dulles International Airport). Virginia’s investment in to larger regional systems like Metrorail these major projects is providing tremendous economic, environmental, in Northern Virginia. Some systems are energy and quality of life benefits and is helping to meet the goal of fee-based, while others provide free building a truly multimodal transportation system. access for the elderly and disabled. By advising, supporting, and funding public Other recent successes that support improved public transportation transportation programs statewide, DRPT include DRPT’s collaboration with the Virginia Department of helps provide safe, reliable transportation options for everyone. -
Tysons Corner Express
TYSONS CORNER EXPRESS S From Woodbridge to TART D A WOODBRIDGE WSON BEACH Tysons Corner 1 OCCOQUAN Woodbridge VIS HWY VRE Station A Connecting services: JEFF D Amtrak; Greyhound; VRE GORDON / R (Subject to change without notice) T 2 123 Route 123 / I-95 Exit 160 Commuter Lot I-95 SPRINGFIELD I95/495 CAPITAL BE LTWAY / I -495 BRADDOCK Map not to scale / I-495 Y ARLINGTON BLVD US 50 A W T L LEE HWY US 29 BE L NORTH A T CAPI I66 Bus Stop (Bus also stops at the numbered timepoints) Transfer Center Commuter Lot Point of Interest Tysons Corner Tysons Corner Metro Station Metrorail Station Center OmniRide (Bus Bay D) VRE Train Station Connecting bus services: Fairfax Connector; Metrobus ©2021, Potomac and Rappahannock (Subject to change without notice) Transportation Commission WEST PARK Design by Smartmaps, Inc. TYSONS BLVD 3 RT 123 Booz Allen BAE Hamilton Systems TIONAL GALLERIA A Tysons SOLUTIONSSAIC Galleria INTERN GREENSBORO END Mall ARK Hilton 5 WEST P Freddie SPRING HILL Mac LINCOLN WAY WEST BRANCH TYSONS FREDDIE MAC CIR This OmniRide route is JONES BRANCH JONES BRANCH 4 TYCO funded by the Virginia CORNER Department of Rail and Freddie Gannett Co ARK Mac RUN Public Transportation to (USA Today) P West Park mitigate congestion along Transit Center I-95 and I-495. Connecting services: Shuttle to East Tysons Corner 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Woodbridge VRE Route 123 & Tysons Jones Branch Dr Jones (Trips timed to connect I-95 Metro and Branch with VRE schedule) Commuter Station Lincoln Way before Lot (Bus Bay D) West Park Trip These are approximate drop-o times. -
Exploring Mobile Ticketing in Public Transport an Analysis of Enablers for Successful Adoption in the Netherlands
Exploring Mobile Ticketing in Public Transport An analysis of enablers for successful adoption in The Netherlands April 2017 Expertise Centre for E-ticketing in Public Transport S.K. Cheng Faculty of Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Exploring Mobile Ticketing in Public Transport An analysis of enablers for successful adoption in The Netherlands Analysis report April 2017 Delft University of Technology This report is part of the Expertise Centre for E-ticketing in Public Transport (X-CEPT). March 2017 (version 1.0) Author S.K. Cheng Project coordination Dr.ir. J.I. van Kuijk [email protected] Project execution S.K. Cheng Academic supervisors Dr.ir. G.J. Pasman Dr.ir. J.I. van Kuijk Translink supervisor M. Yntema Project partners GVB I. Keur NS P. Witmer RET J.P. Duurland List of definitions App. An abbreviation for application: a computer program or piece of software designed for a particular purpose that you can download onto a mobile phone or other mobile devices. Fare media. The collection of objects that travellers carry to show that a fare or admission fee has been paid. Paper tickets and the OV-chipkaart are fare media for example. Interaction. Bi-directional information exchange between users and equipment (ISO, 2013). User input and machine response together form an interaction. Journey & Trip. A journey refers to travelling from A to B, while a trip refers to a segment of the journey. A journey can consist of multiple trips. For example, when going from train station Delft to Beurs metro station in Rotterdam, the journey is from Delft to Beurs. -
Reduced Cost Metro Transportation for People with Disabilities
REDUCED COST AND FREE METRO TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Individual Day Supports are tailored services and supports that are provided to a person or a small group of no more than two (2) people, in the community. This service lends very well to the use of public transportation and associated travel training, allowing for active learning while exploring the community and its resources. While the set rate includes funding for transportation, it is important to be resourceful when possible, using available discount programs to make your funds go further. METRO TRANSIT ACCESSIBILITY CENTER The Metro Transit Accessibility Center (202)962-2700 located at Metro headquarters, 600 Fifth Street NW, Washington, DC 20001, offers the following services to people with disabilities: Information and application materials for the Reduced Fare (half fare) program for Metrobus and Metrorail Information and application materials for the MetroAccess paratransit service Consultations and functional assessments to determine eligibility for MetroAccess paratransit service Replacement ID cards for MetroAccess customers Support (by phone) for resetting your MetroAccess EZ-Pay or InstantAccess password The Transit Accessibility Center office hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, with the exception of Tuesdays with hours from 8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. REDUCED FAIR PROGRAM Metro offers reduced fare for people with disabilities who require accessibility features to use public transportation and who have a valid Metro Disability ID. The Metro Disability ID card offers a discount of half the peak fare on Metrorail, and a reduced fare of for 90¢ cash, or 80¢ paying with a SmarTrip® card on regular Metrobus routes, and a discounted fare on other participating bus service providers. -
The Smart City Observer
Equity Research Global Industrial Infrastructure May 23, 2019 Industry Report Louie DiPalma, CFA +1 312 364 5437 [email protected] The Smart City Observer Please refer to important disclosures on pages 13 and 14. Analyst certification is on page 13. William Blair or an affiliate does and seeks to do business with companies covered in its research reports. As a result, investors should be aware that the firm may have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of this report. This report is not intended to provide personal investment advice. The opinions and recommendations here- in do not take into account individual client circumstances, objectives, or needs and are not intended as recommen- dations of particular securities, financial instruments, or strategies to particular clients. The recipient of this report must make its own independent decisions regarding any securities or financial instruments mentioned herein. William Blair Overview “Smart city” technology innovations and regulatory developments are occurring at a rapid pace. In The Smart City Observer, we observe how cities are using sensors to observe (monitor) and automate processes across transportation, security, and payments. We analyze leading smart city technologies related to our coverage of AeroVironment, Cubic, FLIR, and Verra Mobility that in- clude connected car, public transit payments, vehicle payments that use surveillance technologies (for deliveries and safety), facial recognition surveillance, and urban surveillance (safe city). The key(tolling/red-light themes that we cameras/speed highlight are ascameras), follows. congestion and traffic management, drones/robotics • Recent M&A activity in surveillance, transportation tech, and payments has been robust, with vendors positioning themselves to take advantage of a surge in urban RFPs and innovation. -
April 10Th, 2019
Commission on People with Disabilities April 10th, 2019 Welcome and Approval of March 2019 Meeting Summary Minutes: Seth Morgan, Chair, convened the meeting. A motion was made to approve the March 2019 Meeting Summary Minutes. The motion was seconded. A vote was taken, and the March 2019 Meeting Summary Minutes were unanimously approved as written. Approved minutes are available online at www.montgomerycountymd.gov/cpwd. Purple Line Silver Spring Transit Center Transit Plans and Coordiation – Mike Madden, Purple Line Deputy Project Director, Maryland Transit Administration, and Carla Julian, Senior Manager Public Affairs / Community Outreach, Purple Line Transit Construction Website: https://www.purplelinemd.com/en/ PowerPoint: https://montgomerycountymd.gov/HHS-Program/Resources/Files/A&D%20Docs/ CPWD/MCCPWDApril2019Final.pdf Mike Madden, Purple Line Deputy Project Director, Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), gave an overview of the Purple Line project. The Purple Line project is a new 16-mile east-west light rail line that operates mostly on the surface with 21 stations and connects New Carrollton in Prince George’s County and Bethesda in Montgomery County. It also provides a direct connection to four Washington Metrorail lines, three MARC commuter rail lines, Amtrak Northeast Corridor and regional and local bus services. Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) owns the Purple Line. MTA has contracted with a large consortium of contractors and engineers under the umbrella of Purple Line Transit Partners who are completing the design of the project and are building the project today. When the Purple Line opens, Purple Line Transit Operators will take over for a 30-year term. The project is scheduled to open by the end of 2022. -
Heterogeneity in Demand and Oprimal Price Conditioning for Local Rail Transportation
Heterogeneity in Demand and Oprimal Price Conditioning for Local Rail Transportation Evgeniy M. Ozhegov∗ National Research University Higher School of Economics. Research Group for Applied Markets and Enterprises Studies. Research fellow [email protected] Alina Ozhegova National Research University Higher School of Economics. Research Group for Applied Markets and Enterprises Studies. Junior research fellow [email protected] May 31, 2019 Abstract This paper describes the results of research project on optimal pricing for LLC "Perm Local Rail Company". In this study we propose a regression tree based approach for estimation of demand function for local rail tickets considering high degree of demand heterogeneity by various trip directions and the goals of travel. Employing detailed data on ticket sales for 5 years we estimate the parameters of demand function and reveal the significant variation in price elasticity of demand. While in average the demand is elastic by price, near a quarter of trips is characterized by weakly elastic demand. Lower elasticity of demand is correlated with lower degree of competition with other transport and inflexible frequency of travel. I. Introduction Local rail transportation in Russia is an important part of public transport system, as it is often the only way for people to move between locations. At the same time, due to the large length of the arXiv:1905.12859v1 [econ.EM] 30 May 2019 tracks and the distance between large settlements, regional passenger companies cannot cover the costs of operating local rail transport by the revenue from ticket sales. For instance, the revenue of LLC Perm Local Rail Company (PPK) in 2017 amounted to 596 million rubles (near 1 mln. -
Government and Citizen Advisory Groups
Disability & Aging Services Directory for Transportation Update, May 2019 Page 1 of 7 LWVFA TRANSPORTATION POSITION UPDATE, May 2019 DISABILITY and AGING SERVICES DIRECTORY The LWVFA supports accessible, safe, reliable and coordinated transportation services for people with physical and developmental disabilities. Current information about government funded disability transportation services and programs should be provided to the public. Government agencies should partner with disability advocates, community service groups, and private sector transportation companies to identify needs and to expand and improve options for personal mobility and independence. Programs, services should be integrated and public information should be available throughout the National Capital Region. Definition of Disability: To be protected by the ADA, one must have a disability or have a relationship or association with an individual with a disability. An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment. The ADA does not specifically name all of the impairments that are covered. Government and Citizen Advisory Groups Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Transportation Planning Board (TPB) The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the region, and plays an important role as the regional forum for transportation planning. The TPB prepares plans and programs that the federal government must approve in order for federal- aid transportation funds to flow to the Washington region.