Tennessee Transit 2025 September 25 Public Meeting Memphis

1. Tennessee Transit 2025September 25 Public MeetingMemphis

2. Tennessee Department of Transportation Organization

3. Office of Public Transportation What We Do • Transit planning, marketing, and technical assistance • Capital/operatingassistance • Elderly/disabled programs • Ridesharing assistance • Transit system training • Student internship program • Park and ride lot development • Resource coordination

4. Tennessee Transit Today • 23 transit agencies state-wide • Ridership 29 million in 2001 (up 13.6% since 1998) • $45.6 million - capitalimprovements in 2001 • $106.9 million - operating funds in 2001

5. In Millions of $$ 2000 2001 2002 2003 State Transit Funding

6. Metropolitan/Regional Transit RTA Five Systems 25.8 million trips in 2001 660 Total Vehicles in 2001

7. MATAMemphis Area Transit Authority • Fixed route service • 69 routes, 12.8 million trips • 255 vehicles • Largest system in state • Express buses – 5 routes • Trolley routes – 2 routes • Demand response – 211,004 trips • 48 lift-equipped vehicles • Projects: • Replace 31 vehicles - $6.7 million • Light rail planning and system development

8. 89 Total Vehicles 1.2 million trips in 2001 Urban Transit Systems 6 Systems

9. 44 Total Vehicles 1.4 million trips in 2001 Trolley Systems 3 Systems

10. Rural Public Transit11 Systems – 95 Counties 649 vehicles • Delta HRA • Northwest TN HRA • Southwest HRA • Mid-Cumberland HRA • South Central TN DD 1.4 million trips in 2001 • Upper Cumberland HRA • Southeast TN HRA • Hamilton County • East TN HRA • Hancock County • First TN HRA

11. Delta HumanResource Agency • Counties Served: Fayette, Tipton, Lauderdale, andnon-urbanized areas of Shelby • Service Area Population: 107,178 • Trips Provided in FY 2001: 36,733 • Connects with MATA for Job Access

12. Emerging Transit Markets • Towns become urban – Cleveland, Morristown and Murfreesboro • Service feasibility studies – Murfreesboro and Sevierville • Bus rapid transit study – Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville

13. Transit System Issues • Funding • New technology • Capital facilities • Demand for paratransit service rising dramatically • Service development and marketing • Land use planning and development

14. Transit Benefits(From Oak Ridge National Laboratory) • Access to employment and medical services • Positive economic andenvironmental impacts • Urban transit returns $2.00-2.50 for each $1.00 invested • Rural transit has positive cost-benefit ratio

15. Transit Vision • Customer-centeredalternatives toprivate automobiles • TDOT is multimodal“mobility manager”

16. What is the Transit Plan?

17. 2025 Transit Plan • Part of TDOT’s long-range multimodal plan • Documents currenttransit services andfuture needs, costs,funding, marketing • Identifies major future projects • Contains transit agency and public input

18. Transit Plan • Goals and Objectives • Initial Findings • Plan Schedule

19. Draft Goals and Objectives • Triple ridership by 2025 • Improve service quality and safety • Create transit systems and services that enhance quality of life • Establish stable/reliable funding • Promote best practices • Encourage public-private partnerships • Develop user-friendlymodal connections

20. Benefits of GrowingTransit Ridership by 2025 • Quality of Life • Reduce traffic congestion • Support livable communities • Air Quality in Metropolitan Areas • Social Benefits • Transportation for older citizens & others • Economic costs of new infrastructure

21. Transit Ridership Growth is Achievable! • Increase service to match growth in population • Start service in new emerging markets • Construct “New Start” transit projects: • Memphis Light Rail • Nashville Commuter Rail • Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge / Sevierville BRT

22. Programmatic Improvement Areas • Vehicle Procurement • Improve procurement process and reduce costs • Planning • TDOT facilitate peer review program among local transit agencies

23. Programmatic Improvement Areas, cont. • Safety and Training Oversight • Enhance training • Link up with insurers for training and technology • Marketing • Clarify roles for all parties (including TDOT) • Help organize and support transit advocacy

24. Programmatic Improvement Areas, cont. • Technology Transfer • TDOT overall transit technology program management • Access TN university research centers for help

25. Cost of Additional Service Operating Cost Requirements(millions of year 2000 dollars)

26. Cost of Additional Service Capital Costs(millions of year 2000 dollars)

27. Funding Objectives • Predictable and consistent funding stream • Adequate and growing • Allows multi-year commitments to large capital projects • Allows state to plan for — or limit exposure for state share of — high capital cost projects • Funding alternatives will be developed in TDOT Multi-Modal Plan

28. Options for New Local Funding • Increase gasoline tax • Increase non-gasoline motor fuel tax (diesel and CNG) • Special sales tax • Increase vehicle registration fee • Vehicle excise / personal property tax

29. Preparing the Plan • Steering Committee • Transit agencies speak out on goals/needs • Extensive publicoutreach • Stakeholder groups anduser surveys • Details on TDOT Web Site TDOT.state.tn.us/TNTRANSIT25

30. Plan Schedule • June-October 2003: review, comment, public involvement • Early fall 2003:finalize as transit resourcedocument for long-range multimodal transportation plan

31. Transit Plan is One Part of the Long-Range Multimodal Plan • Aviation Plan • Bike/Pedestrian Plan • Freight Plan • Highway Plan • Rail Plan • Transit Plan The long-range multimodal planning process will begin this year and take about 18 months.

32. Now it’s your turn . . . How you can help shape the plan