1. Intercity Bus Study 5311/Update
Dr. Thomas Pogue
Associate Director
Center for Business and Policy Research
University of the Pacific
CalACT 2017 Fall Conference, November 3, 2017

2. California Statewide Rural Intercity Bus Study (CIBS) 2017 Update
Background Contextual Analysis
October 2016 – March 2017
Needs Assessment
April – July 2017
Stakeholder and public outreach
August – November 2017
Planning Integration & Action Plan
April – December 2017
Updated Statewide CIBS
January 2017 – March 2018

4. Stakeholder and public outreach
Steering Committee
MPO/RTPA Survey
Transit Agency Survey
Follow-up discussions on surveys
Structured interviews validating Needs Report
Outreach Workshops

5. What matters? Priorities in intercity bus service?
Capital
Operating
Planning/Marketing
Coordination
Intermodalism and essential transportation services
Strategic corridors and/or unmet needs

6. Initial findings
Should inter-city transit funding focus on developing and sustaining movement along the interregional corridors identified in the 2015 ITSP?

7. Initial findings
If the 2015 ITSP Corridors are targeted should certain other interregional needs, be given interregional funding resources even if they are not part of an ITSP Corridor?? – but its complicated

8. Initial findings Rank of Intercity Bus Goals (4= Most Important):
Providing a seamless inter-regional service 3.3
Enhancing and expanding regional bus service 3.0
Inter-agency coordination
Marketing and informational network development 1.3

9. Initial findings Importance of these objectives? (5=Most Important):
Ensuring intercity bus service connects to key primary destinations (i.e. medical facilities, educational institutions, etc.)
Ensuring intercity stations/terminals are part of or connect to larger regional/national systems of intercity travel
Ensuring intercity bus service connects to other modes of transportation 4.1
Ensuring intercity stations/terminals are a primary destination 3.8
Ensuring coordination, ridership, mobility, quality and efficiency of service are enhanced through informational outreach and marketing

10. Initial findings
Importance of 5311(f) eligibility? (5=Most Important):
Operating Assistance
Vehicle (Bus) Purchase
Intercity Bus Transit Infrastructure
Bus Related Equipment
Planning and Marketing Studies

11. Initial findings Importance of 5311(f) objectives? (5=Most Important):
Supporting services to meet the intercity travel needs of residents in non-urbanized areas
Supporting connection between non-urbanized areas and the larger regional/national system of intercity bus service
Supporting the intercity bus network's growth to address service gaps 4.56
Supporting the intercity bus network's infrastructure through capital investment in facilities
Supporting the intercity bus network's infrastructure through planning and marketing assistance

12. Initial findings Support or oppose the following (5=Highest Support):
Allow 5311(f) funding to favor intercity bus routes that are part of the corridors identified in the ITSP, but also allocate a fixed share or value of funding to intercity bus routes in rural areas outside of those corridors
Prioritizing 5311(f) funding to intercity bus services based on measures related to the program's objectives, such as inter-modal connectivity, resident needs, and key locations served by the intercity service
Allow 5311(f) funding to prioritize existing intercity bus services, but also allocate a fixed share or value of funding to expanding or developing new intercity bus services 3.1
Focus 5311(f) funding on intercity bus services that are part of the corridors identified in the ITSP - whether they are existing, expanding or new - before any funding goes to intercity bus services in other areas
Making 5311(f) funding available only to existing intercity bus services, with only funds left over afterwards being available to expand or develop new intercity bus services 3.0

13. Initial findings Provider type emphasis? (5=Greatest Emphasis):
Public transit providers 4.3
Public-private partnerships 3.7
Private transit providers 3.4

14. Thank You!