SFMTA / SJSU Copartnership Kickoff

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SFMTA Municipal Transportation Agency Image: Historic Car number 1 and 162 on Embarcadero

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INTRODUCTIONSSFMTA / SJSU Data Development Copartnership

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HOW THE SFMTA OPERATESSFMTA / SJSU Data Development Copartnership

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY

• San Francisco formed the Municipal Railway in 1912, the first municipally owned transit system in the US.

• The San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic was formed in 1989 from the Bureau of Streets and the Parking Authority

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A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY

• The SFMTA was formed to combine Muni, DPT and the Taxi Commission into one Agency by Prop E in 1999, creating the first intermodal transportation agency un the county

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The SFMTA: the Organization

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The SFMTA Planning Divisions

SFMTA Executive Management

Taxi and Accessible Services

Taxi Commission

Accessible Services

Transit Division

Muni Operations

Service Planning

Special Events

Transit Enforcement

Sustainable Streets Division

Strategic Planning & Policy

Livable Streets

Traffic Routing

Transit &Traffic Engineering

Security & Enforcement

Communications and Outreach

Finance and IT

Capital Planning

Real Estate

Technology and

Performance

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The SFMTA Planning Divisions

SFMTA Executive Management

Taxi and Accessible Services

Taxi Commission

Accessible Services

Transit Division

Muni Operations

Service Planning

Special Events

Transit Enforcement

Sustainable Streets Division

Strategic Planning & Policy

Livable Streets

Traffic Routing

Transit &Traffic Engineering

Security & Enforcement

Communications and Outreach

Finance and IT

Capital Planning

Real Estate

Technology and

Performance

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The SFMTA Planning Divisions

SFMTA Executive Management

Taxi and Accessible Services

Taxi Commission

Accessible Services

Transit Division

Muni Operations

Service Planning

Special Events

Transit Enforcement

Sustainable Streets Division

Strategic Planning & Policy

Livable Streets

Traffic Routing

Transit &Traffic Engineering

Security & Enforcement

Communications and Outreach

Finance and IT

Capital Planning

Real Estate

Technology and

Performance

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The SFMTA Planning Divisions

SFMTA Executive Management

Taxi and Accessible Services

Taxi Commission

Accessible Services

Transit Division

Muni Operations

Service Planning

Special Events

Transit Enforcement

Sustainable Streets Division

Strategic Planning & Policy

Livable Streets

Traffic Routing

Transit &Traffic Engineering

Security & Enforcement

Communications and Outreach

Finance and IT

Capital Planning

Real Estate

Technology and

Performance

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The SFMTA Planning Divisions

SFMTA Executive Management

Taxi and Accessible Services

Taxi Commission

Accessible Services

Transit Division

Muni Operations

Service Planning

Special Events

Transit Enforcement

Sustainable Streets Division

Strategic Planning & Policy

Livable Streets

Traffic Routing

Transit &Traffic Engineering

Security & Enforcement

Communications and Outreach

Finance and IT

Capital Planning

Real Estate

Technology and

Performance

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The SFMTA Planning Divisions

SFMTA Executive Management

Taxi and Accessible Services

Taxi Commission

Accessible Services

Transit Division

Muni Operations

Service Planning

Special Events

Transit Enforcement

Sustainable Streets Division

Strategic Planning & Policy

Livable Streets

Traffic Routing

Transit &Traffic Engineering

Security & Enforcement

Communications and Outreach

Finance and IT

Capital Planning

Real Estate

Technology and

Performance

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DATA SOURCING AND COLLECTION

SFMTA / SJSU Data Development Copartnership

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The SFMTA Uses 2 Kinds of Data Sources

Internally Collected Data

• Including:– Automatic Vehicle Locator

Data– Automated Passenger

Counters– Ridechecks– ATCS Data– Central Control Log– Trapeze Scheduling Data– Faregate Data– Field Observations

Externally Provided Data• Data from the City Family

– Department of Public Works– SFPUC– Rec and Park– SFPD/SFFD

• Data from Other Agencies– MTC/ABAG– CalTrans, CTC, and CPUC– US Census Bureau– USDOT– US Parks Service / GGNRA

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Automated Vehicle Locators (NextBus)

How Does it Work?

• Each vehicle is equipped with a GPS enabled mobile phone

• This box reports the location back to the computer ever 20 to 60 seconds depending on cell coverage

• The location data is used for field operations and to judge on-time performance and provide real-time arrival data

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Automated Passenger Counters

How Does it Work?

• Approx. 1/3 of the Muni rubber tire fleet is equipped with APCs.

• They track Ons, Offs, Dwell time and location based on sensors and onboard GPS.

• Ons/Offs are measured using light beams which cross the door threshold

• Every run is sampled enough times per quarter to develop a ridership report.

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ATCS Data

How does it work?

• The Automated Train Control System (ATCS) registers the location of every train in the system using an onboard antenna which communicates with the system using a wire threaded between the tracks

• The system maintains a record of the speed, location dwell and performance of the trains in the Subway

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Ride Checkers

Who are they?• Muni trains and cable

cars are not equipped with APCs.

• Ridership on these lines must be done by hand by ride checkers.

• They record ons/offs by stop by hand to examine ridership patterns.

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Central Control Log

What is it?• The CC Log holds a

record of every incident that has occurred on Muni which is radioed into Central Control

• This log shows the line, location, time coach number and other particulars of the incident.

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Trapeze Scheduling Data

What is Trapeze?

• Trapeze is a automated scheduling software suite.• Trapeze maintains data on every stop, route pattern

as well as scheduled performance and run cutting• Trapeze data is all geographically based for time,

distance and location

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HOW THE SFMTA USES DATASFMTA / SJSU Data Development Copartnership

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Commonly Performed Analyses

Transit Planning• Travel time analysis and

adjustment• Bunching and gapping

analysis• Ridership analysis• Service hours analysis• Transit vehicle speed

by segment• Compiling the transit

performance scorecard

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Commonly Performed Analyses

Transportation Engineering• Collision data analysis

to identify locations requiring traffic modification

• Examining traffic speed, flow and level of service

• Identifying conflict and choke points in the transportation system

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Commonly Performed Analyses

Bike + Ped Planning

• Route safety analysis• Bike volume analysis by corridor• Bike parking occupancy • Bikeshare turnover and use

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Commonly Performed Analyses

Strategic Planning• Fleet needs projection• Capital funding

projection• Staffing needs analysis

and projection• Service modeling for

future baseline and augmented service situations

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THE SFMTA AND SPATIAL PLANNING

SFMTA / SJSU Data Development Copartnership

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Geospatial Planning at the SFMTA

Transit• Title VI equity Analyses• Ridership Mapping• Transit Stop Walkshed

Mapping• Travel Speed Mapping• Analyzing Corridors

Strategic Planning• Capital Asset

Management and Mapping

• Real Estate Vision and Mapping

• Facilities Planning• Planning for Land Use

Changes

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Geospatial Planning at the SFMTA

Bike + Ped Planning• Topographical mapping

for selecting bike routes

• Bike route mapping• Safe routes to school

mapping

Taxi Planning and Policy• Examining origin-

destination pairs of fares

• Geographic distribution of fare hails

• Examining hot-spot areas of taxi complaints

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Questions & Comments?

Data Development Working Group