Title
Review AC Transit's Draft Comprehensive Operations Analysis Study (Now Rebranded as the Service Enhancement Plan) (Linda Morris/Robert Del Rosario, AC Transit)
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Transportation Commission
July 22, 2015
Item 5A
REVIEW AC TRANSIT'S DRAFT COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONS ANALYSIS STUDY (NOW REBRANDED AS THE SERVICE ENHANCEMENT PLAN)
BACKGROUND
The Comprehensive Operations Analysis (COA) began in the summer of 2014 as a planning effort by AC Transit to improve the operational efficiency of routes while maximizing the effectiveness of service. The COA achieves this by making improvements to existing schedules and routes and, when necessary, consolidating or creating new schedules and route alignments. In the fall of 2014, AC Transit staff conducted the initial round of public outreach for the COA. The purpose of the outreach was to solicit community feedback about existing service, discuss high-level proposals for service expansion/restoration, and explain common trade-offs between transit choices which could affect the outlook of the service network. With this community feedback, along with findings from the 2012 COA, AC Transit Board Policy 550, and other best practices in transit planning, staff developed a matrix of priorities which served as the basis for developing service enhancements.
In the spring of 2015 AC Transit began the second round of community outreach, presenting service improvement proposals to the community to ensure that such proposals met the needs of the community. The project has now been rebranded as the Service Expansion Plan (SEP) as the agency prepares to move from paper proposals to actual, on-street service enhancements. This second round of public outreach and the corollary comment period concludes July 31. After that, AC Transit will make final recommendations for service enhancements and conduct the appropriate CEQA and Title VI equity analyses, with a final report and public hearing scheduled for November 2015...
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