Week 7 - Public Transport

Question 1

What is Public Transport?

Answer 1

Any form of public transit that

• Carries shared passengers
• Charges set fares
• Runs fixed routes, and
• Is available to the public

i.e. buses, subways, ferries, and trains.

Question 2

What does Public Transport not include?

Answer 2

• School, charter, pr inter-city buses

- Taxis, carpools, ride-shares

Question 3

Why Public Transportation?

Answer 3

• reduced vehicle emissions
• less overall resource use
• mobility for seniors and others
• increased safety for road users
• better use of existing road space

Question 4

What form of transit are common in Metro Vancouver?

Answer 4

• Bus
• Seabus
• Trolleys
• Skytrain
• West Coast Express
• Handi-dart
• BC Ferries
• B-Line express bus (~ Bus Rapid Transit)

Question 5

Details of Coast Mountain Bus Company:

Answer 5

Standard 40-foot (13m) city bus and 30 seats (70 max).

Question 6

Details of B-Line service, articulated:

Answer 6

Articulated 60-foot long (18m) coty bus and 48 seats (120 max)

Question 7

Details of Seabus:

Answer 7

Passenger only ferry service between downtown and North Vancouver.

Question 8

Details of West Coast Express:

Answer 8

Mon-Fri commuter heavy rail service operating during peak hours.

Mission City Station to Waterfront Station

Question 9

Details of Translink:

Answer 9

Metro Vancouver’s transportation authority responsible for:

• largest service area in Canada
• Second largest electoral trolley fleet in Canada
• Over 1,700 buses
• 286 Skytrain cars (incl. Canada Line)
• Longest, fully automated, driverless, rapid-transit system in the world (Skytrain)

Question 10

What are the transit systems & types?

Answer 10

• Bus, trolleybus
• airline
• train
  
  • commuter, inter-city, regional (West Coast Express)
  • LRT: street cars, trams, ALRT (SkyTrain)
  • Heavy Rapid Transit (HRT): Metro, Subway, Underground
• Ferries (Seabus, Bus Ferries)
• Aerial Tramways, cable cars
• Paratransit

Question 11

Stats for Transit in Canada:

Answer 11

• Canadian Transit Assoc.
• 2 billion transit passengers/year
• 1.2 billion kilometres
• 53,000 transit employees
• Over 15,500 buses
• 600 LRT cars
• 1600 HRT
• 840 commuter rail vehicles

Question 12

What are the five essentials of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)?

Answer 12

1) Dedicated r.o.w
2) Location within r.o.w. to reduce roadway conflicts
3) Intersection treatments to favour buses
4) Off-board fare collection
5) Platform level boarding

Question 13

What does paratransit mean?

Answer 13

1. Public or group transportation.

2. Special transport services for people w/ disabilities.

Question 14

What are the two types of Transit Networks?

Answer 14

1. Trunk w/ feeders

2. Trunk w/ branches (requires more feeders)

Question 15

Station design considers what?

Answer 15

• Riders
• Operators
• Vehicles
• Neighbours

Question 16

Transit Operations:

Answer 16

1. Mixed Traffic - Conventional bus
2. Reserved Lane - Conventional bus, express bus, B-line service
3. Separate Road - BRT
4. Rail - LRT, HRT, Commuter

Question 17

What is dwell time?

Answer 17

Stopped time at each transit stop (10-40 secs)

Question 18

What is layover?

Answer 18

Time at terminus

Question 19

What is recovery time?

Answer 19

Time built into each schedule to allow for operator to maintain published schedule

Question 20

Headway:

Answer 20

1. Buses - based on published schedule
2. SkyTrain - function of system
3. SeaBus - based on published schedule

Question 21

What is the largest barrier to transit usage?

Answer 21

Transfers