PUBLIC TRANSPORT

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Heather WebsterExecutive Director

Public Transport Division

Moving People – Hearts & Minds

The car is doomed, scientist warnsClay Lucas

CAR travel should be cut by 80%, road construction halted and public transport boosted if Australia is to meet carbon emission targets, energy experts have warned.

Travel times getting longerLauren Novak

PEAK hour could blow out over the next decade if nothing is done to stop the build-tip of traffic congestion on Adelaide roads.

Lack of Parking Puts Train Users on RoadLinton Besser

More than 40% of motorists who otherwise drive all the way to work would rather park at a station and commute.

Is The Car Doomed?

• 220,000 journeys each weekday

• 65 million journeys a year

• $ 270 million per year to operate

• $ 70 million per year in fare revenue

• $ 3 subsidy for each journey on average

Adelaide Metro

Infrastructure

810 – Buses

94 – Rail Cars

15 – Trams

Vehicles

Service Contractors Objectives

Maintain a viable business and earn reasonable profit

Shared and Segregated

• 120 km of Train Line

• 12.5 km Tram Line

• 12 km of O-Bahn Track

• 1440 km of Bus Routes

Track - Infrastructure

Ticketing

• 1,800 Validating machines

• 650 Outlets selling Metrotickets

• GPS monitoring of services

• $70 million ticket revenue (2006 - 07 financial year)

Revenue Infrastructure

• Diesel - 21 million litres per annum

• CNG – 297,874 GJ’s per annum

• Bio Diesel (B5 moving to B10) -

1.5 million litres per annum

Fuel Infrastructure

Capital value - $1.5 billion

Dedicated Public Transport Infrastructure

How to get people from cars to public transport?

Comfortable, Fast, Safe, Reliable, Well Priced

Frequent Services

Over 45% of adults have difficulty understanding timetables

Increasing Public Transport Use

Who benefits from the use of public transport

The individual

The environment

Other road users

The city

Strategies Driving Patronage Growth

Bus Network: 80% of tripsTrain and Tram: 20% of trips

Adelaide Milestones1. O-Bahn

2. CTC

3. Marketing

4.Trams

Results of Contracting

$193 million

$ 52 million

14% more service15% more patronage

In first 10 years:

Cost savings

Extra Revenue

Plus

• 5,993 stops with Information

• 33 Smart Stops – showing real time information

• 37 fully illuminated Interchange display units

• Website - 17 million hits

Information Infrastructure

• 5,600 Nomad onBoard subscribers

• 187,000 sms and e mail messages sent per annum

• 400 Info outlets distributing 4.3 million timetables per annum

• 800,000 visitors to the Adelaide Metro InfoCentre per annum

• 540,000 calls to the Adelaide Metro InfoLine per annum

Information Infrastructure

Strategies for Growth – Short to Medium Term

Increases to:Bus PriorityFrequencyCapacity

Park'n'RideRail track quality

New ticketing system

Strategies for Longer Term Growth

•Extend bus routes

•Extend train and tram lines

•Electrify and standardise train lines

Support for Public Transport

Strategic Plan Target(10% weekday car kms – currently 7%)Increasing patronageClimate ChangeCongestion and costsPublic opinion

Main factor that would encourage greater use of public transport

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Other

Improved facilities at stops and stations

Cleaner buses

More security on board

More security at stops/stations

Faster services

Improved reliability

More evening/w eekend services

Low er fares

More frequent services

% of all public transport usersSource: Customer Satisfaction survey of Adelaide metropolitan public transport, Synnovate, November 2006

Motivations To Change Travel Behaviour

1. Frequency

2. Low fares

3. Weekend Services

4. Reliability

5. Faster

Potential Users

70% travel in the peakLatent demand:

Between 30% and 50%

A clean, uncluttered modern city has attractive public transport for easy travel

The Competitive Challenge

Bus – the Quick Fix

Short lead time

Incremental

Reach and Accessibility

Flexible

Cheaper

Choose the mode to fit the task not bend the task to fit the mode

Metro

Standard Rail

LRT

Tram

Bus

Busway

Which mode fits your task?

Change is unavoidable but outcomes can be chosen

Changes to Fuel Price, Energy Source, Vehicle Type, Travel Habits

Will change the dynamics of a city

Summary

It depends on

• City Design

• Fuel Prices to accelerate change

• Acknowledgement of the broader benefits

Good public transport is essential for a civilised city