1. Moving Together 2018 www.mbtafocus40.com

2. Focus40 Overview
A long-range plan for how the MBTA can meet the needs of the region in 2040:
A 20-year plan as required by MBTA enabling legislation
A roadmap of investments to feed future MBTA Capital Investment Plans
Key Components of Focus40 Plan:
Programs: Highlight potential investments that could enable the MBTA system to best serve the region over the long term
Priority Places: Identify priority areas for new or improved service based on where investments have the greatest likelihood to deliver ridership and other benefits to the region
Focus40 is comprised of programs and places and is designed to fee future capital plans. While it is not financially constrained, it is establishing the framework for feeding investments into to the CIP over the next 20 some years to meet the needs of the region.

3. Focus40 Planning Umbrella
Systemwide Plans
Plan for Accessible Transit Infrastructure
Fleet & Facilities Plan
Focus40
Water Transportation Study
Better Bus Project
MBTA Rail Vision
Mattapan High Speed Line
Green Line Transformation
It is also an umbrella to connect other plans that are going on in the building that are supporting the goals of the strategic plan - it has both informed these plans and have been informed by them. Focus40 will result in additional plan
Modal and Project Plans

4. Focus40 Process

5. Data Collection
Existing and Future Conditions
Trends

6. Outreach
In addition to talking to subject matter experts about our data analysis we also did extensive outreach with both the general public and key municipal, business, and advocacy stakeholders.

7. Goals

8. Future Scenarios
Focus40 uses scenario planning to better understand what the MBTA’s region might be like in 2040.
Instead of planning for one specific future, Focus40 developed four plausible futures for the region.
Focus40 uses scenario planning to help us plan strategically decades out – in the context of lots of uncertainties in the transportation sphere.

9. Next Priorities through 2040
Programs Framework
Focus40 lays out studies, project concepts and specific investments within each program, divided into the following categories:
Category
Description
We’re Doing
Commitments through 2023
Investments already underway or in the five-year Capital Investment Plan.
We’re Planning
Next Priorities through 2040
Important investments that meet the needs of the region in 2040, to be planned and phased over time.
We’re Imagining
Big Ideas
Potentially transformative investment ideas, the feasibility, benefits, and costs of which must be better understood before the MBTA can make a decision about how to move forward with them.
Through data collection and input from internal and external stakeholders we examined a range of potential projects

10. We’re Doing: Commitments through 2023
Program Objective: Achieve a better, faster, lower-emissions service, supported by off-board fare collection and exclusive busways, aligning with where riders live, work, and travel.
We’re Doing: Commitments through 2023
Better Bus Project Phase 1 to revamp routes, frequencies, and stops with implementation planned in 2019
Better Bus Project Phase 2: Network Redesign Process and Initial Implementation
Municipal Collaboration to Improve High Priority Bus Facilities and Stops
Bus Fleet Replacement and Expansion
Zero- Emissions Bus In-Service Testing to inform future fleet procurement
We're Planning: Next Priorities through 2040
Fleet Expansion to Serve Bus and Bus Rapid Transit Network
Better Bus Project Phase 3: Implementation of Network Redesign
Phased Conversion to Zero-Emissions Fleet
New Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors
We're Imagining: Autonomous bus shuttles that can serve new routes and deliver first-mile/last-mile connections for passengers to commuter rail and rapid transit

11. Implementation
Initiation of planning studies and engineering/design work to advance ‘Next Priorities’
Network Redesign
Rail Vision
Silver Line Capacity Study
Maintenance facility planning
Vehicle specification development for Green Line Type 10 vehicles
Blue Line capacity study
Priority Place Action Plans
‘Next Priorities’ to be prioritized in the capital plan
Continuation of municipal partnerships to advance efforts beyond CIP
Annual, pre-Capital Investment Plan (CIP) review to track status, incorporate new information and set upcoming programmatic priorities
Implementation
CIP
Focus40
MBTA Strategic Plan

12. Implementation - Project Prioritization
System Preservation
Mobility
Environment
Safety
Economic Impact
Social Equity
Policy Support
Cost Effectiveness
Focus40 doesn’t prioritize specific projects – many investments in focus40 really aren’t specific projects, but instead a type of investment –
Projects will be developed for each program and scored against these criteria through the cip process.
Inputs

13. Implementation – Tracking Progress
Asset condition
Service reliability
System accessibility
Bus passenger comfort
State of good repair spending
Ridership
2017 Tracker Measures
Tracker currently includes a range of relevant measures to help track progress – additional ones are in the works, and some other efforts collect other data – for the annual cip process, we want to bring these all together at the start of the process to help inform the needs for the coming cycle. It also helps us – along with other tools – gage whether we need to adjust priorities.
Outputs

14. Focus40 Investment Priorities
FY CIP
We’re Committed Projects
Big Ideas Projects
Next Priorities Projects

15. Focus40 Investment Priorities
FY CIP
We’re Committed Projects
Big Ideas Projects
Next Priorities Projects
FY CIP

16. Focus40 Investment Priorities
FY CIP
We’re Committed Projects
Big Ideas Projects
Next Priorities Projects
FY CIP
FY CIP

17. Thank You Check out the draft Plan at: www.mbtafocus40.com
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