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1 ublic ransportation ransit ervices in the adison Area etro Fixed-Route ervice etro ransit etro), which is owned by the adison, is the area s major transit operator. etro operates within the oversight of the ayor, Common Council, and the City s ransit & arking Commission. etro contracts with local units of government, UW-adison, adison Area echnical College, and the adison etropolitan chool District to provide service. etro operates a timed transfer system utilizing core, commuter, peripheral, connecting, and circulator routes. In addition to the four major transfer points east, west, north, and south) and the Capitol quare, a fifth minor transfer point was opened in 2007 in iddleton. etro s fixed route service consists of 57 mainline and 4 UW campus routes. Of the mainline routes, 17 operate throughout each day, 9 operate weekday only, 19 peakperiod only, 6 mid-day weekday only, and 6 weekend only. here are 2 UW campus circulators and 2 late evening campus routes. In addition, etro operates many school-oriented routes within adison etropolitan chool District boundaries, designed primarily to transport students in grades 6- who do not have access to regular fixed-routes and also to reduce overcrowding on mainline routes during peak commute times. etro has a total of 168 buses running at the system s maximum peak weekday service periods. he service span for the mainline routes is generally from 6:00 am to :00 am on weekdays and 6:30 am to 11:00 pm on weekends with some trips beginning and 37 ending outside of those times. etro operates most routes as local service with frequent stop spacing. However, etro does provide some limited stop bus service. Routes, 25, 29, 44, 48, 52, 56, 57, 59, 74, and 78 skip stops that are served by overlapping routes. All are peak-period commuter routes except Routes and 52 all day), Route 59 weekends), and Route 78 aturday only). For the most part, limited stop service outside peak periods is provided in order to complete a route within a 30- or 60-minute cycle time or because the service is funded exclusively by cities other than adison. In addition, several routes operate on roadways without bus stops, in some cases to provide faster service. Route 55 was added in 2005, providing direct commuter service from the West ransfer oint to Verona and the Epic campus via UH Verona Road). Routes 11,, and 16 operate on onona Drive and Broadway without stops. Routes,, 55, and 59 operate on the Beltline Highway, and Route 17 operates on H 30. Routes 1,,, 15, 56, 57, 70, 71, 72, and 74 operate on Campus Drive without stops, bypassing Old University Avenue. Route 25 uses Highway in northeast adison as East Washington Avenue transitions from an urban arterial to a limited access expressway. etro has an average weekday regular fixedroute ridership of 38,000 to 40,000 with 2035 Regional ransportation lan Update arch 20

2 school in session. he UW-adison campus and supplemental school service boost the average weekday total for the system to 53,000 to 55,000. he average weekday ridership during the summer is 28,000 to 29,000. According to the 2008 etro onboard survey, over % of weekday transit trips were for work, school -), or college universitytech purposes. he trip purpose distribution is more even for weekend trips with 40% for work or school, 22% shopping, and 38% other purposes. Figure shows the distribution of trip purposes for etro mainline weekday passengers. Figure onona ransit ervice he onona contracts with a private provider to operate one fixed-route transit route, called the onona Express, providing four trips to the downtown adisonuw campus area during each weekday peak period. he city also contracts for a service called onona Lift. It is a scheduled service operating a similar route during mid-day weekdays only with demand-response capabilities for qualified riders. ome trips go to downtown adison and others circulate within the onona. he 2010 ridership for both services was 21,200. rip urpose Weekday rip urpose Distribution of etro ainline assengers edicaldental 2% FitnessRecreation 1% hoppingrestaurant WorkWork Related 4% Other ersonal Business, ocial, Etc.) 2% chool -) CollegeUniversityech 6% 32% CollegeUniversityech chool -) 32% 6% WorkWork Related 53% Other ersonal Business, ocial, Etc.) 2% hoppingrestaurant 4% FitnessRecreation 1% edicaldental 2% 53% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% ource: 2008 etro On-Board urvey etro aratransit ervice etro provides demand responsive paratransit service within ¾ mile of fixed route service excluding peak-only commuter routes) for persons who are unable to use etro s regular fixed-route service. he service is available during the same time span as the fixed route service in the vicinity. Riders must be certified as eligible to receive the service in accordance with ADA guidelines. ome individuals are only qualified during certain events such as wintery weather. rips must be scheduled at least one day in advance and, unlike fixedroute service, riders are charged a higher fare during peak periods Regional ransportation lan Update arch 20

3 un rairie and toughton hared-ride axi ervice he Cities of un rairie and toughton contract with private providers for shared ride taxi service that is available to the general public. he service is a form of door-to-door, demand-responsive transit whereby passengers with different origins andor destinations may be transported simultaneously. he un rairie also provides one fixed-route, the un rairie to adison huttle ervice. he route makes three round trips on weekdays between a few locations in un rairie and East owne all, where riders can transfer to adison etro service. In 2010, the un rairie service provided 81,000 passenger trips and the toughton provided 37,0 trips. Other ransit and rivate axi ervices ortage ransit operates a commuter shuttle service with one weekday trip between downtown ortage and etro s North ransfer oint where riders can transfer to etro service. he YW ransit rogram provides employment related transportation to lowincome persons for trips not served by etro ransit such as night shifts and safe nighttime rides for potential victims of sexual assault. Community assistance day-time rides are also provided to persons with no viable options due to poverty, disability, or language barriers. Five private taxicab operators Badger Cab, Green Cab, adison axi, Union Cab, Van Go axi) provide individually arranged transportation services for the general public throughout the metro area. wo of the operators Badger, Green) provide sharedride service, while the others are metered cab operations. hey operate without public funding and the fares reflect this. pecialized ransportation ervices he Adult Community ervices Division of the Dane County Department of Human ervices DCH) administers several accessible group ride and demand-responsive services for the elderly and persons with physical or developmental disabilities in the metro area and countywide. DCH contracts with private providers for these services. he services are generally provided as a supplement to etro services for persons residing or traveling outside etro s service area, and they transport people to necessary support and medical services, jobs, and training. Using volunteer drivers in private vehicles, the Retired enior Volunteer Driver Escort rogram RV) provides individual, and in a few cases, small group rides for the elderly when other options are not available. ost trips are for medical purposes. Dane County and etro ransit provide funding assistance for the RV service. he UW Hospital and AC provide shuttle service between facilities and campuses. he adison, Dane County, and various non-profit organizations provide other program-specific transportation services mostly targeted at low-income persons Regional ransportation lan Update arch 20

4 ystem Characteristics able adison etro Fixed-Route ransit ystem Annual ervice Levels and Ridership: Year ransit ervice Area opulation 237, , , , , ,984 ransit ervice Levels Revenue Vehicle Hours Operated 364, , , , , ,768 Revenue Vehicle iles Operated 4,675,350 4,703,1 4,717,5 4,707,7 4,709,101 4,810,956 Number of Vehucles in aximum ervice ransit Ridership and ervice Utilization otal assengers 11,475,597,034,468,672,334 13,433,221 13,588,426 13,623,461 assengers per Capita assengers per assengers per Revenue Vehicle Hour assengers per Revenue Vehicle ile ource: etro FA National ransit Database ND) Reports and adison Area B etro Fixed-Route ervice, Ridership, and erformance rends ransit patronage on etro s fixed-route system continued its upward trend from 2005 to he increase in ridership was achieved despite only a modest increase in service levels during this period following reductions between 1999 and Ridership increased 19% from 11,476,000 trips to 13,623,000, while service hours increased 5% from 364,500 to 381,800. As a result, passengers per revenue vehicle hour increased from 31.5 to he 2010 ridership total was the highest since the 1979 energy crisis and was the second highest total on record. Figure 15 shows ridership and service hours from 19 to 2005, while Figure 15 etro Fixed-Route Ridership and ervice Hours otal assengers millions) otal assengers Revenue ervice Hours ource: etro FA National ransit Database ND) Reports and adison Area B Regional ransportation lan Update arch 20

5 able provides service level and ridership statistics for the fixed-route system. ervice frequencies on etro s system are highest through a shared central University AvenueJohnson treet transit corridor between the UW-adison campus and adison s Central Business District, the 100 to 300 blocks of tate treet, and the Capitol quare. ervice levels are also high in the East Isthmus arterials, University Avenue west of the campus, and in the N. ark treet corridor during peak periods. he high level of service in the central adison area is provided by many overlapping peak-only routes with 15- to 30-minute headways that complement the all-day core routes with 30-minute headways. Overall service frequencies of 15 minutes or better throughout the midday are provided to some markets with overlapping local routes as well as some midday-only routes with 30- to 60-minute headways. hese markets include heboygan Avenue, Old University Avenue, Jenifer treet, the Johnson and Gorham treets couplet, as well as the West and East ransfer oints. he campus shuttle routes 80 and 85 also provide a high level of weekday service on the UW-adison campus. ervice frequencies in adison s peripheral neighborhoods are generally 30 to 60 minutes during weekdays with hourly service predominant during evenings and weekends. Figures 16 and 17 show average weekday peak period and midday headways on the fixed-route system. While etro has been able to implement modest increases in the number of service hours, etro s service area has remained largely unchanged. etro s weekday fixedroute service area is 63.5 square miles during the weekday peak period, not counting the lakes. he onona transit service covers another 1.6 square miles not served by etro. Approximately 86% of the adison s 2010 population was served by 41 a etro route. Around 72% of iddleton s population and 53% of Fitchburg s population was served. Higher density fringe areas that currently lack fixed-route transit service include the far outhwest side south of cee Road, High oint Road and idtown Road, Old auk Road west of leasant View Road, the Verona, the precher neighborhood east of I-, igglekow Road and arsh Road on the outheast side, and the village of cfarland. art of the Fish Hatchery Road corridor in Fitchburg lacks all day service. un rairie, toughton, and Waunakee are among the outer area communities without any commuter service. Figure shows the weekday peak and offpeak service areas. he etro fixed-route transit system serves work and school-related trips to the downtown adisonuw-adison campus area very well with these trips accounting for the majority of the system s weekday ridership. Combining etro s good service area coverage throughout the Cities of adison and iddleton and the Fish Hatchery Road corridor in Fitchburg with the long hours of service, the etro system can provide a viable transportation alternative for many trips within these communities. However, it is still challenging to effectively serve the newly developing employment and activity centers of the region, particularly those located beyond the Interstate and the Beltline. any of these areas are not well designed for efficient transit service and have abundant free auto parking, making transit a less attractive travel alternative. Vehicle Fleet aintenance and afety In 2010 etro had an active fixed-route fleet of 204 buses, with 168 buses required to provide weekday peak period service during the school year. his leaves etro with a spare ratio of %, slightly less than the minimum industry standard of 20%. he average age of the fleet was 6.8 years Regional ransportation lan Update arch 20

6 2035 Regional ransportation lan Update Figure 16 Cross lains iddleton aple Bluff Lake endota 42 C J Lake Wingra adison adison Lake onona onona 30 horewood Hills BW Verona N Lake Waubesa ud Lake Fitchburg V 69 N D G cfarland B B arch ransit ervice Average eak Headways NAE: pldms < 15 inutes 60 inutes 15 inutes > 60 inutes 30 inutes Limited ervice ransfer oint Incorporated Area 2010) FILE: C:\Arcaprj\rans\D2009\ransit_Headway_eak.mxd Lake egonsa repared by staff to the: iles RINED: 22010

7 2035 Regional ransportation lan Update Figure 17 Cross lains iddleton aple Bluff Lake endota 43 C J Lake Wingra adison adison Lake onona onona 30 horewood Hills BW Verona N Lake Waubesa ud Lake Fitchburg V 69 N D G cfarland B B arch ransit ervice Average idday Headways NAE: pldms < 15 inutes 60 inutes 15 inutes > 60 inutes 30 inutes Limited ervice ransfer oint Incorporated Area 2010) FILE: C:\Arcaprj\rans\D2009\ransit_Headway_idday.mxd Lake egonsa repared by staff to the: iles RINED: 22010

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9 iles of service between unplanned maintenance calls for buses on the road is another measure of the condition and maintenance of the bus fleet. As shown in able 19, etro ransit had 837 unplanned road calls in 2010, a slight increase compared to 2009, but 230 less than in he average number of miles between unplanned road calls was 6,749 in 2010 compared to 5,082 in In 2003 the average age of the fleet was 7.3 years. Of the 204 buses, 19 are hybrid buses, including put into service in he functional life span of a transit coach is considered to be years or 500,000 miles on the original engine. etro does not have any buses with average mileage on them over 500,000 miles. he oldest buses are used for supplemental school service. All buses are ADA accessible and all buses used for regular non-school) service are lowfloor. able 20 provides data on etro ransit bus crashes and crash rates from 2005 to he rate of etro ransit bus crashes per 100,000 miles was 2.92 in 2010, a slight decrease from 2009 and much lower than the rates in he number of passenger accidents has increased in recent years with 1,233 in Beginning in 2008 etro began categorizing vehicle accidents as chargeable, non-chargeable, and preventable. Of the 165 accidents in 2010 a total of 98 59%) were non-chargeable, 57 35%) were chargeable, and 10 6%) were considered preventable. able 19 Fleetaintenance adison etro Fixed-Route ransit ystem: erformance Indicator Year otal ransit Vehicle iles 5,422,795 5,428,2 5,400,684 5,415,228 5,471,7 5,648,866 Unplanned Road Calls 1,067 1, , iles of ervice per Unplanned Road Call 5,082 4,531 5,832 5,309 6,664 6,749 ource: etro ransit able 20 ransit-related Crashes and Crash Rate etro Fixed Route ransit ystem: 2005 to 2010 erformance easure Year ransit Vehicle Crashes ransit assenger Incidents otal ransit Vehicle iles 5,422,795 5,428,2 5,400,684 5,415,228 5,471,7 5,648,866 Vehicle Accidents per 100,000 iles assenger Accidents per 100,000 iles ource: etro ransit Regional ransportation lan Update arch 20

10 etro ervice Operating Costs and Revenues etro s fixed-route system cost per revenue service hour increased from $81.33 to $95.25 or an average annual increase of 3.2% from 2005 to he cost per fixed-route passenger was $2.97 in 2010, while the average revenue per passenger was $0.79, a 23% increase from In addition to fares, etro relies on federal, state, and local funding to cover the costs of operating the transit system. he percentage of the fixed-route system costs covered by passenger fares increased from 22.3% in 2005 to 26.6% in 2010 as a result of recent fare increases and more passengers per revenue hour. assenger revenue covered 22.4% of all system costs including paratransit) in Between 2005 and 2010, the state s share of etro s operating expenses fell from 37% to 30% while the federal share increased from % to 27%. he share paid for by local taxes and fares remained about the same. Figure 19 shows the 2010 percentage distribution of operating revenue for the etro transit system as a whole, while able 21 shows operating costs, revenues, and deficits for the fixed-route system from he Wisconsin biennial state budget reduced transit operating assistance for adison etro through the tate Revenue 2010 etro Revenue Federal assenger 27% $11,686,006 Local $13,4,691 tate $17,505,072 Federal $15,460,523 tate Expenses 30% Capital $8,715,556 Oper $47,4,4 Figure 19 ource: etro FA National ransit Database ND) Reports assenger and isc. Revenue 20% Local 23% ystem Characteristics able 21 adison etro Fixed-Route ransit ystem Revenue ervice tatistics: Year ervice Expenses and Revenue Operating Expenses 1 otal Expenses $32,974,246 $35,3,898 $36,199,459 $,237,204 $40,547,797 $40,434,049 Cost per otal Vehicle Hour $81.33 $86.80 $88.84 $96.32 $98.00 $95.25 Cost per otal Vehicle ile $6.20 $6.53 $6.76 $7.30 $7.47 $7.26 Cost per assenger $2.87 $2.92 $2.86 $2.92 $2.98 $2.97 assenger Revenue 2 $7,348,403 $7,9,169 $8,721,876 $9,083,4 $9,992,237 $10,737,634 Revenue per assenger $0.64 $0.66 $0.69 $0.68 $0.74 $0.79 ercent of Expenses Recovered hrough assenger assenger Revenue 22.3% 22.5% 24.1% 23.2% 24.6% 26.6% Operating Deficit otal Deficit $25,625,843 $27,231,729 $27,477,583 $30,153,753 $30,555,560 $29,696,415 Deficit per assenger $2.23 $2.26 $2.17 $2.24 $2.25 $2. 1 Excludes interest and depreciation. 2 Excludes miscellaneous operating revenue e.g., advertising). ource: etro FA National ransit Database ND) Reports and adison Area B Regional ransportation lan Update arch 20