City of Cedar Hill City Center Transit-Oriented Development Plan Task 4: Circulator Plan Technical Memorandum July 2014 Prepared by: Task 4 City Center Circulator Plan Outline 1.0 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Circulator Context................................................................................................................................................... 1 2.0 Service Analysis .................................................................................................................. 2 2.1 Circulator Alignments ............................................................................................................................................. 2 2.2 Operational Analysis Assumptions & Service Structure .................................................................................. 6 2.2.1 Travel Time Estimates ..................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2.2 Operating Plan ............................................................................................................................................ 11 3.0 Circulator Mode Evaluation ............................................................................................... 19 3.1 Vehicle Options .................................................................................................................................................... 20 3.2 Project Goals ........................................................................................................................................................ 21 3.3 Proposed Screening Criteria and Evaluation ................................................................................................. 21 4.0 Circulator Cost Estimates ................................................................................................... 26 4.1 Operating & Maintenance (O&M) Cost Estimates ........................................................................................ 26 4.2 Capital Costs ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 4.2.1 Rubber-tire trolley capital costs ............................................................................................................... 29 4.2.2 Modern or Replica Streetcar capital costs ............................................................................................. 31 5.0 Service Delivery Options ................................................................................................... 37 6.0 Identification of Funding Sources and Opportunities ........................................................ 40 6.1 Federal Funding Sources .................................................................................................................................... 40 6.2 Regional, Local, & Private Funding Sources ................................................................................................... 44 7.0 Next Steps ......................................................................................................................... 50 Appendix ................................................................................................................................. 52 Connetics Transportation Group i July 2014 Task 4 City Center Circulator Plan List of Figures and Tables Figure 1: Phase 1 circulator alignment ........................................................................................................................... 3 Figure 2: Phase 2 circulator alignments ......................................................................................................................... 4 Figure 3: Phase 1 & 2 circulators and 5-minute walk boundary .............................................................................. 5 Figure 4: Phase 1 circulator and intersection control ................................................................................................... 9 Figure 5: Phase 2 circulator and intersection control ................................................................................................ 10 Figure 6: A 60-foot bus in Ft. Worth. .......................................................................................................................... 19 Figure 7: An historic streetcar in San Francisco. ........................................................................................................ 19 Figure 8: An electrically-powered replica streetcar in San Francisco. ................................................................. 20 Figure 9: A rubber tire trolley in Ft. Worth. ............................................................................................................... 20 Figure 10: A battery-powered replica streetcar in Southern California. ............................................................ 20 Figure 11: One of Portland's modern streetcars. ...................................................................................................... 21 Figure 12: Rubber-tire trolley, replica streetcar, and modern streetcar. ............................................................ 25 Figure 13: 2010 Urbanized Areas in Dallas County ............................................................................................... 42 Figure 14: 2010 DFW Urbanized Areas: Southwest Dallas County ..................................................................... 43 List of Tables Table 1: Signalized delay assumptions ......................................................................................................................... 7 Table 2: Stations/stops and assumed ridership sizing by phase .............................................................................. 8 Table 3: Run time results summary ............................................................................................................................... 11 Table 4: Phase 1 spans of service by day of week ................................................................................................. 12 Table 5: Phase 1 average weekday service statistics ............................................................................................. 14 Table 6: Phase 1 average Saturday service statistics ............................................................................................. 14 Table 7: Phase 1 average Sunday service statistics ................................................................................................ 15 Table 8: Phase 2 average weekday service statistics ............................................................................................. 16 Table 9: Phase 2 average Saturday service statistics ............................................................................................. 17 Table 10: Phase 2 average Sunday service statistics .............................................................................................. 18 Table 11: User-related, land use & development, design-related, and operations-related criteria ............ 23 Table 12: Vehicle recommendations ............................................................................................................................ 25 Table 13: Comparative peer agency data for streetcar service .......................................................................... 27 Table 14: Comparative peer agency data for bus service.................................................................................... 27 Table 15: Phase 1 annualized statistics and estimated annual costs .................................................................... 28 Table 16: Phase 2 annualized statistics and estimated annual costs .................................................................... 28 Table 17: Vehicle types and costs for rubber-tire trolleys (2012 $) ................................................................... 29 Table 18: Assumed unit costs for rubber-tire trolley ................................................................................................ 30 Table 19: Rubber-tire trolley Phase 1 and Phase 2 capital costs ......................................................................... 31 Table 20: Streetcar vehicle types and costs (2012 $) ............................................................................................ 32 Table 21: Summary of modern streetcar general peer capital cost ranges ....................................................... 33 Table 22: Assumed capital costs for streetcars ......................................................................................................... 33 Table 23: Replica streetcar Phase 1 and Phase 2 capital costs ............................................................................ 35 Table 24: Modern streetcar Phase 1 and Phase 2 capital costs ........................................................................... 36 Table 25: Local public transportation funding framework ..................................................................................... 46 Connetics Transportation Group ii July 2014 Task 4 City Center Circulator Plan Connetics Transportation Group iii July 2014 Task 4 City Center Circulator Plan 1.0 Introduction The City of Cedar Hill, Texas, is located in southwestern Dallas