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Regional Transportation Commission
of Southern NevadaPerformance Measurements
Tina QuigleyDeputy General
Manager
What does the RTC do?
Transit Traffic Managemen
tSystems
Roadways
Southern Nevada – An Atypical Region- 1% wow! (the Las Vegas
Strip)
- 90% nothing (desert & mountains)
- 9% suburbia (sprawl)
- 2 million residents- 1 county- 5 cities- 1 public transit operator- No regional land use agency
- 7 million residents- 9 counties- 101 cities- 28 public transit
operators- Multiple regional land
use agencies
Southern Nevada San Francisco Bay Area
A Comparison
Measuring Success
Transit Performance Measurements
On-time performance – 10 minute standard
Passengers per service hourTotal passenger miles
Customer feedback
On-time performance – 5 minute standard
Revenue by routeRevenue per passenger trip
Costs by routeCost per passenger trip
If you look only at the NTD data for our system, the RTC…
• Is the most efficient system in the nation (based on cost per passenger trip - $1.71); New York City’s transit service comes in second
• Moves more people than the city of Portland, Oregon – with half the number of transit vehicles
“We have one of the highest passengers per service hour ratios – over 40!”
“We have one of the greenest fleets in the nation…utilizing CNG, diesel-hybrid electric technology and even recycled vegetable oil!”
“We have the only transit route in the nation (that we’re aware of) that actually generates enough revenue to pay for itself and subsidize additional routes!”
“Our system boasts one of the highest farebox recovery ratios in the nation – it’s over 40 percent!”
“…an adequate transit design must provide superlative service in order to be good enough…”
Transit Route Planning
Summerlin
US 95
Blue Diamond Hwy.
Henderson
North Las Vegas
I-15
Measuring Success - Transit All of these success
statistics are true, but by taking a closer look at our
unique environment tells a more complete story…
…there are two factors that best tell that story –
passengers per service hour and revenue per
passenger.
All of these success statistics are true, but by taking a closer look at our
unique environment tells a more complete story…
Measuring Success - Transit
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23% of the RTC’s ridership-generated revenue comes from the Strip & Downtown Las Vegas
Metropolitan Planning Organization
In its MPO role, the RTC collects, monitors and studies stuff.
Traffic counts
Safety databases
Street digital imagingTransit databases
Air quality standards
Project feasibility
Accessibility
The job of an MPO is often likened to herding cats…
When elephants work together, a lot can be achieved…when they don’t, guess who gets trampled?
Coordination & Cooperation
• Performance-based project selection
• Cooperation on data collection & analysis
• Promotion of multi-modal travel options
That other elephant in the room…
Gaming Corporations!
So instead, we invited them to participate - Stakeholder Advisory Committee…
Gaming
Senio
r cit
izensDevelopers
Chamber of commerceOrganized labor
General
contractors
Small
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Utilities
General public
Tax payer
association
• Tasked with developing a process for prioritizing
• That simplified arithmetic was then applied to a
long list of unfunded transportation needs
• Staff worked with the group to create very simple measuring and math
The results were predictable…
• Projects with transit ranked high
• Un-linked roads ranked low
• The group also recommended some before / after studies
• The best investment were Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects
― Traffic management provides the best return
on investment!
Before / After Studies
Sahara Avenue - Before Boulder Highway - Before
Traffic Management
The RTC serves as the region’s traffic management agency through its FAST division…FAST collects a lot of data with the goal of measuring success.
8-mile section of I-15 has the most
concentrated stretch of FAST technology
This provides FAST with a lot of valuable data that can be used to measure
performance
Impact of the Express Lanes on I-15June 2010 (northbound) July 2010 (northbound)
July 2010 (southbound)June 2010 (southbound)
Average gain of 5 mph
Average gain of 9 mph
By gathering additional data with ITS technology, we can better manage traffic and
improve travel on our freeways…
Questions?