Transcript On-Board Transit Survey - Atlanta Regional Commission

On-Board Transit Survey
Presentation to TCC
Dec. 13, 2002
Heather Alhadeff, AICP
404.463.3275
[email protected]
Purpose
• Conduct survey that is significant for its focus
on regional travel patterns
• Results will be used to update data inputs for
ARC’s regional travel demand model
Background
• MARTA, CCT, Clayton, and Gwinnett County
transit systems were surveyed between 10/13/01
and 12/09/01.
• For a “true” picture of ridership characteristics,
Clayton and Gwinnett were re-surveyed in February
2002
– Allowing them to “mature” over a three to four month
period after service initiation.
Report Includes
• Data collection: origin and destination,
demographics, access and egress modes, and public
transit use.
• Review of Existing Transit Operations.
• A database interface was created between ArcView
and Access to allow the end user to create tables and
maps by selecting specific criteria such as route,
time-of-day, weekday/weekend.
Sampling Methods (buses)
• For efficiency, the sampling methodology is based on
three principles, stratification, variability, and trip
clustering.
• 1st stage: Sample of weekday (and some weekend)
revenue bus trips – roughly an 80%/20% split among
weekday and weekend trips, which matches the actual
service split for MARTA overall.
• 2nd: Survey of passengers boarding the sampled bus
trips.
Survey Questionnaire
Surveys by System
System
Weekday
Weekend
17,643
4,360
22,003
MARTA Rail
6,316
1,154
7,470
CLAYTON
372
67
439
CCT
1,075
141
1,216
GCT
116
0
116
25,522
5,722
31,244
82%
18%
100%
MARTA
Total
Total
• Overall response rate
was 33%
• The response rate by
system was:
– 46% for MARTA Rail
– 29% for MARTA Bus
– 62% for Clayton
– 38% for CCT
Trip Origin
• Region-wide, 48% of trips began at home
– MARTA Rail (53%)
– MARTA bus (44%)
– CCT (53%)
– Gwinnett and Clayton (64%)
• 30% began their sampled trip from work.
Trip Origin (cont’d)
Trip Origin
65%
60%
55%
% of Regional Trip Origins
50%
45%
MARTA Bus
40%
MARTA Rail
35%
CCT
30%
Gwinnett/Clayton
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Work
Home
Shopping
Restaurant
Doctors Grade\High\Vocational College
office\Hospital
school
Social\Church or
Other Personal
Trip Purpose
• Weekday: MARTA one-in five & CCT,
Gwinnett/Clayton one-in-ten passengers made
a discretionary trip.
• Weekend: twenty-five percent more riders use
transit for discretionary (43%) trips
Destinations
Weekday:
– MARTA:
• Work and home share similar percentages (36%)
– Gwinnett/Clayton
• Home (17%) Work (63%)
– CCT
• Home (29%) Work (47%)
Weekend Overall:
– Home 27% (exception CCT 9%)
– Work 26% (exception CCT 40%)
Trip Destinations (cont’d)
100,000
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Doctors Grade\Hi
Shoppin Restaura
office\Ho gh\Vocat
g
nt
spital
ional
Work
Home
MARTA Bus
52,867
57,794
8,489
1,203
5,788
MARTA Rail
CCT
Gwinnett/Clayton
Total
38,617
4,349
222
96,055
32,738
2,703
61
93,296
3,470
309
14
12,282
658
75
3
1,939
1,771
188
7
7,754
College
Social\C
hurch or
Other
5,772
5,184
16,662
2,419
148
7
8,346
4,663
519
9
10,375
14,155
894
29
31,740
All Transit and Auto Trips by Time of Day
16%
14%
12%
10%
Transit Trips
8%
Auto Trips
6%
4%
2%
0%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Transit Trip Duration
30%
26%
25%
20%
20%
16%
15%
11%
7%
10%
5%
1%
3%
1%
4%
7%
3%
1%
Reported Minutes
40
18
1-2
80
12
1-1
91
-12
0
61
-9
0
46
-6
0
31
-4
5
26
-3
0
21
-2
5
16
-2
0
15
11-
610
05
0%
Methods of Transit Access
During the week and weekend ~60% accessed public transit
by walking & 20% transferred from another bus or train. Bus
access is dominated by walk mode.
• MARTA rail:
– 31% of weekday & 17% of weekend drove a car and parked
• CCT:
– 23 % of weekday & 10% of weekend began using private transit, such as
taxi or shuttle/vanpool service.
• Gwinnett and Clayton:
– 33% of weekday & 70% of weekend walked
– 42% accessed public transit from a automobile (kiss n’ ride, taxi, etc.)
How did you GET TO where you boarded this
bus or train?
Access Mode
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Walked
Bicycle
Rode with someone
Shuttle\Vanpool
Taxi
Drov e a car and
who parked
MARTA Bus
Transferred from bus
parked
MARTA Rail
CCT
Gwinnett/Clayton
Was dropped off by
Transferred from
someone
MARTA rail
Total
Egress mode
• Region-wide, weekday/end ridership are similar. 63%
walked after the conclusion of their one-way transit trip
• Second most popular method of egress:
– Over 31% of Gwinnett/Clayton transferred to another bus/rail
– “Drive a car” is the second most frequent method of egress for
weekday MARTA rail users (3rd for weekend)
– MARTA bus users- “Transfer to Marta rail” or bus (tied 13%)
– Remaining systems- “Transfer to a bus” CCT (15%), MARTA
rail (14%), and MARTA bus (12%) Gwinnett and Clayton (21%)
Transit Usage
• Passengers who use public transit at least five days/week
– Seven-in-ten (weekday)
– Six-in-ten (weekend)
• Increased bus usage:
– 34% (bus) and 24% (rail) respondents have increased their
transit usage over the previous six months
– One-in-ten Gwinnett/Clayton passengers were already using
public transit before the new systems became operational.
• 81% of Gwinnett and Clayton riders report an increase.
• Only seven percent of all riders report a decrease.
Think of your use of public transit over the past six
months. Which of the following applies to you?
Change in Transit Usage
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
Now using
Now using
Now using
Now using
buses more
rail more
buses less
rail less
MARTA Bus
81,979
41,555
8,855
MARTA Rail
20,240
34,379
5,331
CCT
Gwinnet t / Clayt on
Tot al
Hasn't
Haven't
changed my changed my
bus use
rail use
4,807
35,013
24,618
4,113
2,861
17,287
30,058
1,520
699
279
2,345
990
281
90
13
23
37
15
107,831
77,544
13,680
7,970
54,682
55,681
How many vehicles are in Running Condition
& Available to Your Household?
• Did not have a vehicle:
– All: weekday (42%) & weekend (47%)
– MARTA rail: weekday (25%) & weekend (38%)
– MARTA bus: weekday (52%) & weekend (55%)
– Gwinnett/Clayton: weekday (31%) & weekend (38%)
If bus or rail service was not available, how
would you MAKE THIS TRIP?
• No transit available:
– The majority would either drive weekday (31%) or catch a ride
with someone weekend (30%)
– “Weekday (20%) & 22% of weekend respondents would not
have made the sampled trip if public transit service were not
available.
• Of those who would not make the trip:
– Region-wide, 72% would not take a work or home trip
– Weekday (38%) & Weekend (22%) would not go to work
Alternative Method of Travel by Income
Income
Drive
Walk
Ride w/
Someone
Taxi
Bicycle
Would Not
Go
0-20k
10%
14%
27%
12%
2%
28%
20k-40k
21%
8%
29%
13%
2%
22%
40k-60k
37%
7%
24%
9%
1%
17%
60k-80k
45%
5%
19%
7%
1%
12%
>80k
59%
3%
15%
7%
2%
8%
Alternative Method of Travel by County
W ould
Drive
W ould
W alk
Ride w/
Some one
T axi
W ould
Bicycle not go
All
24%
10%
29%
12%
2%
23%
Che roke e
47%
29%
22%
70%
22%
35%
60%
29%
28%
47%
50%
40%
18%
5%
10%
11%
10%
8%
0%
10%
10%
8%
5%
17%
10%
18%
16%
23%
25%
10%
29%
40%
10%
38%
28%
17%
17%
30%
35%
5%
11%
16%
10%
12%
5%
10%
14%
11%
13%
0%
0%
0%
0%
2%
1%
0%
1%
5%
0%
0%
1%
2%
0%
0%
0%
26%
25%
25%
0%
28%
15%
10%
10%
24%
16%
17%
20%
29%
Clayton
Cobb
Cowe ta
De kalb
Douglas
F aye tte
F orsyth
F ulton
Gwinne tt
H e nry
Paulding
Rockdale
Demographics
• Both weekday and weekend (~70%) respondents are AfricanAmerican. Weekday (19%) and weekend (15%) respondents are
White.
• Gender is split almost 50/50 (slightly more males on weekend).
• Age 25-39 was the most frequent response.
• Weekend respondents are slightly younger than weekday
respondents with 31% weekend and 26% weekday
respondents between the ages of 16 and 24.
• Nearly one-in-three weekday and weekend passengers have
at least three other persons in their household.
Income
• Weekend & weekday over 55% have an annual
household income of less than $30,000.
• Weekday (20%) weekend (15%) have an income
of $60,000 or more.
• More affluent passengers use the MARTA rail
and Gwinnett/Clayton systems.
Household Size and Income
•Household Size
•
•Household Income
•
•Total
•
•1•
•Low•
•($0 to $29,999)
•
•Mid•
•($30,000 to $59,999)
•
•High
••-Mid•
•
•($60,•000 to $99,999)
•
•High
•
•($100,000 or more)
•
•2•
•3•
•4+•
•13,140
•
•18,058
•
•13,350
•
•19,395
•
•63,943
•
•62%•
•56%•
•53%•
•55%•
•56%•
•6,723
•
•8,959•
•6,055
•
•9,701
•
•31,438
•
•32%•
•28%•
•24%•
•28%•
•28%•
•1,238
•
•3,827•
•3,515
•
•3,858
•
•12,438
•
60%
•6%•
•12%•
•14%•
•11%•
•11%•
40%
Household Size by Income
100%
•49•
•1,447•
•2,302
•
•2,171
•
•5,969
•
80%
56%
25%
12%
20%
6%
0%
•0%•
•4%•
•9%•
•6%•
•5%•
•21,150
•
•32,291
•
•25,222
•
•35,125
•
•113,788
•
•100%•
•100%
•
•100%
•
•100%
•
•100%•
•Total
•
Low
Mid
High-Mid
High
Trip Chain by Income
Less Than $20,000 $20,000-$40,000
1
2
3
4
5
Observations
$40,000-$60,000
$60,000-$80,000
Greater Than
$80,000
Walk-Bus-Walk Walk-Bus-Walk Walk-Bus-Walk Walk-Bus-Walk SOV-Rail-Walk
(1615)
(1270)
(435)
(161)
(169)
Rail-Bus-Walk Rail-Bus-Walk Rail-Bus-Walk SOV-Rail-Walk Walk-Bus-Walk
(644)
(611)
(187)
(85)
(124)
Walk-Bus-Rail Walk-Bus-Rail Walk-Bus-Rail Rail-Bus-Walk Walk-Rail-Walk
(594)
(489)
(183)
(84)
(77)
Walk-Bus-Bus Walk-Bus-Bus Walk-Bus-Bus Walk-Bus-Rail Rail-Bus-Walk
(483)
(359)
(118)
(61)
(70)
Bus-Bus-Walk Bus-Bus-Walk SOV-Rail-Walk Walk-Bus-Bus SOV-Bus-Walk
(360)
(288)
(98)
(51)
(65)
5629
4688
1801
867
1062
Payment Method
• 50% used a pass to pay for their trip.
• Weekday: (31%) respondents used a Monthly TransCard,
28% used Weekly TransCard.
• A higher percentage of weekend respondents used a
Weekly TransCard (31%) than a Monthly TransCard (23%).
Conclusions
• During the week, public transit in the Atlanta region is mainly
used for non-discretionary trips.
• 42% of all weekday respondents (52% of MARTA bus) do
not have a vehicle
• During the week and weekend, nearly 60% access public
transit by walking.
• More than 70% weekday passengers use public transit for
their trip at least five days per week (mainly for work
purposes).
Incentive Winners
• Grand Prize (One Year of Monthly Passes -$630 Value)
– George Williams of College Park
• Second Prize (6 Months of Monthly Passes -$315 Value)
– Earnest Coer of Atlanta
• Third Prize (1 Monthly Pass to 5 Winners -52.50 Value)
– Jenea Welch of Atlanta
– Julian Brown of Atlanta
– Yvonne Riggins of Tucker
– Remaining Winners Did Not Want to Be Announced
Thanks For Your Time!
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