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Service Trends
New York City Transit | MTA Bus Company
Strategies
Next Steps
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Bus Ridership Long Term Trends
Annual NYC Transit Bus Ridership
Millions
1,200
1,000
1969-1984 Steep Decline: 2008-2011
-43.8% Steep
Decline: -9.4%
800
2002-2008
600 Stable: 2011-2016
Stabilization and
Slow Decline
1984-1996 Slow Decline: -4.5%
400 1996-2002
-15.1% Rapid
Increase:
+57%
200
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Bus Ridership
% Change
Change in Annual Bus Ridership by Borough
+12%
10%
1.1
Subway
Queens
723,000 (+2%)
0%
1
Staten Island 128,000 (0%)
Brooklyn
-10%
0.9
-20%
0.8
411,000 (-27%)
0.7
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
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Modal Shifts and Competition
Shift to Subway
2007 to 2016 ridership change:
-29% high overlap routes
-18% medium overlap routes
-2% low overlap routes
Demographic Shifts
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Bus Speeds
Slower Bus Speeds
Average bus speeds dropped
in all five boroughs from 2014
to 2016
For individual routes, declines
can be more pronounced
Slower bus speeds decrease
performance, worsen
reliability, and cost resources
SBS Routes:
13 SBS routes and 6 more planned LGA
over the next 2 years
16% of local bus ridership is on SBS
SBS Features:
Bus Lanes
Reduced Stop Spacing
All-Door Boarding
Transit Signal Priority
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Strategies Bus Lanes
118 miles of bus lanes
62 miles used by SBS
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Strategies Effectiveness of Bus Lanes
Case Study of AM Peak Only Lanes
5 to standing/ 7 standing/parking
4 parking at 10AM 6 at 10AM with little
5 effect
3 4
2 3
2
1 1
0 0
7:00-8:00 8:00-9:00 9:00-10:00 10:00-11:00 7:00-8:00 8:00-9:00 9:00-10:00 10:00-11:00
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Strategies Transit Signal Priority
Bus updates NYCDOT with real time GPS NYCDOT communicates with traffic lights
based location as soon as bus enters check- at TSP intersections to affect delayed
in zone near an intersection green or shortened red
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Strategies All Door Boarding
Implement All Door Boarding where appropriate
SBS fare strategy has reduced dwell time
Customers pay off board and use all doors
Requires fare enforcement teams, cost - $700k/route
MTA is committed to maintain and expand the SBS program
NFPS with contactless cards faster than MetroCard dipping
Estimated all-door boarding trip time savings:
Two minutes or more on 18 routes
90 seconds to two minutes on an additional 27 routes
Less than 90 seconds on remaining 275 routes
Need more study of:
Technology compatibility with open payment systems
Cost-benefit analysis for routes with few customers per stop
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Next Steps
Continue to implement SBS routes on high volume corridors
Apply SBS features to the local bus network, where appropriate
Redesign and add more bus lanes similar to the SBS model, and make
more effective through better enforcement
Expand use of transit signal priority
Improve bus stop spacing
Off-board fare collection / all-door boarding where appropriate
Work with NYCDOT and other NYC agencies on priority slow corridors
Right-size the bus network
Restructure routes, particularly in congested areas
Re-evaluate service in areas where ridership has declined
Shift resources per guidelines to support growing routes and new
markets
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