Agenda - 11-01-2022; 5-c - 2022 Orange County Transit Plan Update

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03 44 transit. Hillsborough to Duke Hospital; and from northern Carrboro/Chapel continuing Hill (including the Blue Hill District]to Duke hospitals. INFO pandemic • . EXPRESS For transit trips ending in Orange County, there are opportunities The • pandemic to improve transit competitiveness for trips between southeastern . disrupted public health Durham County, northern Durham, the Brier Creek area, eastern • • , • quality of • . • Cary, and northern Raleigh and ending in the Downtown/UNC BUS STOP • _ County. Transit is area. It is currently possible to travel between these areas using particularly affected because transit, but it requires at least one transfer and routes tend to be operations and ridership are indirect, both of which undermine the competitiveness of transit. predicated on close proximity to many people. Transit Trerii.A • expected . disrupt our daily Two kinds of transit trends (for the period 2012-2018) guided anotherlives for _ to three years. COVID- decisions for the Orange County Transit Plan Update. These economic19's effects on recovery will likely trends, direct (trips, ridership, and revenue) and indirect (gas outlast direct public health impacts. Over the prices, economic factors, competing modes), help transit service horizon of - 2020 Orange • providers focus investments and make decisions to improve Transit Plan Update, the pandernic may impact service. economic growth forecasts; • •-term impactsDIRECT are more uncertain. Total Annual Ridership Chapel Hill Transit and GoTriangle had the most boardings in the Short-termimpacts ' volatile as public region (6.0 and 1.7 million, respectively); Orange County Public health • public transit officials continueto Transit had notably fewer boardings on their fixed-route operations respond • virus-related issues. COVID-19 (17,852). Each provider served a similar number of trips in 2018 as reduced - •' • affected ••' - by they did in 2012. OCPT ridership fluctuated the most among the mandating - -•- - • fare collection three providers over the time period considered (15,000 trips in changes; and generated ••- • . .•- 2012, about 24,000 in 2017, and 18,000 trips in 2018). Sales tax • other local • • sources support - local and regional transit agencies Service Hours are more unpredictable. Service hours represent the total time during which a transit vehicle offers revenue service.Total annual service hours provide _ • _ of developingthe • _ County a general quantification of how much transit service an agency Transit Plan Update attempted to build in the provides and is useful for understanding each agency's role in the flexibility needed • regional transit network. CHT provides around 160,000 service uncertainties including: hours per year - the most of the three Orange County providers. The evolution CHT's local routes are shorter relative to the other providers and • • • • • focused on downtown Chapel Hill and UNC. GoTriangle provided individual ' comfort proximity 143,000 service hours in 2018,up 33%from 2012.Routes primarily othersaffecting people's operate during peak commuting periods with lengthier travel times Changes ' how we workand between regional destinations. OCPT accrues the least service live hours annually of the three providers(approximately 5,500 service Shifts in anticipated • hours annually), owing to a significantly smaller service portfolio. all levels of government Disruptions in the recoveryprocess • - to Productivity new waves of outbreaks. Measures of transit productivity offer a way to compare system performance while accounting for the varying sizes of transit Even with these heightened - - of agencies. Boardings Per Service Hour considers the number maintaining useful transit system is critical to of people using an available transit service. A higher number of the lives of people, boardings per service hours indicates more productive service. long-term success of transit is essential to the Cost Per Rider considers the cost of each boarding relative to the long-term • _ transit service provider's annual operating costs.A lower cost per rider indicates more productive service. Cost per rider is impacted