TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Salvador Llamas, General Manager/Chief Executive Officer
SUBJECT: Mission Boulevard Transit Priority Project
BRIEFING ITEM
AGENDA PLANNING REQUEST: ?
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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Consider receiving an evaluation report on the Mission Boulevard Transit Priority Project.
Staff Contact:
Ramakrishna Pochiraju, Executive Director of Planning & Engineering
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STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:
Goal - Convenient and Reliable Service
Initiative - Service Quality
Transit Priority projects enhance the transit rider experience by improving transit travel time and reliability. In addition, transit priority projects reduce transit operating costs.
BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact from receiving report.
BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:
Transit Signal Priority (TSP) is one of the tools in the toolkit for transit priority infrastructure. TSP projects include retiming and adjusting traffic signal timing to give some advantage to buses over private automobiles. Signal delay is a major source of delay for transit operation and improved signal operation can reduce transit travel time and improve on-time performance, as well as reduce costly running time. These time and financial savings can be reinvested into improved route frequency and/or longer layovers for the operators, and result in more predictable travel time for bus riders. TSP upgrades are considered one of the most cost-effective ways by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to improve public transit operations and are used worldwide by transit agencies.
AC Transit's Service Development and Planning staff have delivered several TSP projects providing upgrades to nearly 650 signalized intersections across the AC Transit service area over the last 15 years. The Mission Boulevard TSP project implemented signal coordination and a TSP system at 32 signalized intersections along the Mission Boulevard corridor between the Hayward BART and Union City BART statio...
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