Product No.: TM09010
Date Published: 04/2009
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Service reliability for seven SEPTA bus routes operating along the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) has deteriorated in line with rising traffic levels and congestion on the highway. On-time performance for the routes is well below SEPTA's service standard, affecting as many as 6,700 weekday bus passengers in each direction. Opportunity to improve service reliability and customer travel times in the I-76 corridor has been recognized by SEPTA via the anticipated delivery of 120 new regional rail cars. To that end, DVRPC and SEPTA staff jointly conducted a transportation planning exercise to estimate utilization, supporting facility and vehicle needs, and costs (or savings) associated with reconfiguring the seven expressway bus routes into a feeder bus network serving six rail stations in the corridor. The work was iterative, and substantial analyses were prepared and reported, including:- Preliminary estimates of potential bus-rail transferring passengers
- A reconfigured feeder bus network to replace the expressway routes
- Refined transferring passenger estimates based on the reconfigured feeder bus route network
- Assessments of station platforms to accommodate additional transferring passengers as a consequence of feeder bus operations
- Estimated peak vehicle needs (bus and rail) at 80%, 100%, and 110% passenger thresholds
- Recommended improvements for access, circulation and storage of the feeder buses, and platforms to accommodate additional transferring passengers at the rail stations
- Estimated construction costs of the physical improvements at the station facilities, and operating costs and/or savings for the feeder bus and rail services supporting the plan
Geographic Area Covered: the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) Corridor from Center City Philadelphia to points west in the corridor, involving portions of Montgomery and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania
Key Words: express bus routes, feeder bus routes, rail stations, intermodal connections, station improvements, operating costs, capital costs, bus priority treatments
Staff Contact(s)
- Amy D Bernknopf (abernknopf@dvrpc.org)
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