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The purpose of this study was to identify route design changes for MTA New York City Transit’s Staten Island-to-Manhattan express bus service to improve travel speeds and reliability while better meeting existing travel demands. To inform these changes, an understanding of existing express bus operations and ridership was developed by analyzing Automated Vehicle Location and Automated Fare Collection data. Additionally, public outreach was conducted through community workshops and surveys on buses and at bus stops. The result of the study was a recommended network redesign driven by four major concepts: a simplified network with higher frequency service on fewer routes, splitting service so that routes travel to either Downtown or Midtown Manhattan but not both in the same trip, greater spacing between bus stops, and more direct routes that minimize travel time on local streets. The new network design was estimated to reduce the average end-to-end route running time by 20 minutes while still serving more than 99% of existing riders.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP050 Standing Committee on Bus Transit Systems. Alternate title: Reimagining a Commuter Bus Network: A Case Study of Express Bus Service from Staten Island to Manhattan in New York City

18-00430

English

13p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Automatic fare collection; Automatic vehicle location; Bus routes; Case studies; Commuter service; Data analysis; Express buses; Networks; On time performance; Travel time

Metropolitan Transit Authority (New York)

Manhattan (New York, New York); New York (New York); Staten Island (New York, New York)

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-00430

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:07AM