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Texas A&M University Aggie Spirit 2010 Doug Williams Interim Director Texas A&M Transportation Services transport.tamu.edu transport.tamu.edu History Bus Operations started Fleet expanded to 59 buses 4 on and 11 offcampus routes 1990 1982 2002 2008 2001 1988 The Department of Parking & Transit Services created 24 buses purchased 25 buses purchased and public timetables published 22 buses purchased transport.tamu.edu 2006 9 buses purchased with assistance from Brazos Transit Today • Fleet of 80 buses and 6 paratransit vans called Aggie Spirit • 9 off-campus routes 7 on-campus routes • Average daily ridership for fall approximately 8,000 on-campus and 14,500 off-campus transport.tamu.edu Today • Approximately 250 student drivers • Approximately 28 full and part time drivers • 8 full time supervisors • Transports approximately 5.6 million passengers per year including faculty, staff, students and visitors transport.tamu.edu transport.tamu.edu transport.tamu.edu Communication • • • • • • RSS feeds @AggieSpiritBus on Twitter transport.tamu.edu m.tamu.edu mobile site Real-time tracking coming soon Interior banners transport.tamu.edu Other Services • Get to the Grid! Sponsor-funded game day shuttles from the mall to Kyle Field • Local charter services • Interior advertising transport.tamu.edu Costs • • • • • • Cost to run a route is approximately $53/hour Cost of each new bus is approximately $315,000 Starting student driver pay is $8/hr Starting budgeted driver is $10.15/hr Approximately 2,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel daily New $2 million hardware/software installation for scheduling, GPS tracking, cameras, automatic passenger counts, etc transport.tamu.edu Funding • Aggie Spirit receives no state funding • Fixed route service is paid for by a student fee – $70/semester – $35/summer session – $7.24 million annually • Local charter service billed to university affiliates at $80/hr transport.tamu.edu Contact Us Doug Williams, Interim Director [email protected] Lana Wolken, Assistant Director for Transit [email protected] Peter Lange, Interim Executive Director [email protected] Presentation available at: http://transport.tamu.edu/presentations transport.tamu.edu