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Cost of Trimet Transit |
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Mode |
Trimet's Cost Data |
Trimet's Passenger-mile Data |
COST/Pass.-Mi. |
Notes |
| Bus | $197,597,326 (Trimet's Data) |
236,736,000 (Trimet's Data) |
$0.835 |
Calculated BUS |
| Rail | $73,537,962 (Trimet's Data) |
169,553,280 (Trimet's Data) |
$0.434 |
Calculated LRT |
| Combined | $271,135,288 (Trimet's Data) |
406,289,280 (Trimet's Data) |
$0.67 |
Calculated SYSTEM |
| Rail, with construction | $73,537,962 + $115,300,000=$188.9e6 |
169,553,280 (Trimet's Data) |
$1.11 |
Calc. LRT with construction |
| Bus | Lowest cost BUS line in Portland: (Line 33-McLoughlin) |
$0.34 |
Trimet data: Best BUS | |
Cost of Cars based on Bureau of Economic Analysis and Federal Highway Administration's Highway Statistics |
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| Mode & Data Source | User-operated transportation (2001)(line 69) |
Person Miles of Travel (2001) Table VM1 |
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| Car (BEA) | $818.3e9 |
4,432,327e6 |
$0.185 |
Calculated CAR |
| Average people per car= 1.594 nationally, about 1.3 in Portland. Apply 1.594/1.3 factor to $0.185= | $0.227 |
Calculated CAR adjusted for Portland | ||
User-operated transportation (2001)(line 69) |
Total Rural and Urban miles (2001)Table VM1 |
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| Car (BEA) | $818.3e9 |
2,781,462e6 |
$0.294 (veh.-mi.) |
Calculated CAR Cost/vehicle-mile |
| Average passengers per vehicle = 4,432,327e6 / 2,781,462e6 = 1.594 |
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| Car (AAA) | AAA’s calculations assume new cars; 15,000 mi/yr; maximum finance cost, yearly new tires, etc | $0.522 (veh.-mi.) |
AAA CAR Cost per vehicle-mile | |
| Car (AAA) | Divide by Average passengers per vehicle (1.594 ) to get Cost per passenger-mile: 0.522 / 1.594 | $0.328 |
Calculated AAA CAR | |
Cost of Portland Streetcar data from PortlandStreetcar.org |
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Total Annual Cost |
Total Annual riders; Average ride length |
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| Streetcar | $3.3e5 (including Riverplace) | 2.636e6 (sum of all rides fall05-summer06) | $1.25 |
Our Calculated Streetcar Cost/ride |
| Each ride is 3/4 mile per Charlie Hales at PSC | $1.25 / 0.75 = $1.67 | $1.67 |
Our Calculated Streetcar Cost/passenger-mile | |
Cost of Taxi Fare in portland (for trip length same as average LRT trip - 5.2 mile) |
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| Costs $2.50 to board + $2.10/mile. Each Additional Passenger is $1.00---5.2 mile trip=$13.42 | $2.58 |
one person, per pass.-mile | ||
1.6 people, 5.2 mile trip=$15.32 |
$1.69 |
1.6 people, per pass.-mile | ||
2 people, 5.2 mile trip=$14.32 |
$1.39 |
two people, per pass.-mile | ||
3 people, 5.2 mile trip=$15.32 |
$0.99 |
three people, per pass.-mile | ||
Note:
The Trimet costs and Car (BEA) costs are based of REAL costs and REAL
miles, unlike AAA which is theoretical.
Light rail has massive construction costs which are ignored in the above
(and ignored by Trimet's busmaxstat.pdf
) except as noted
The cost of roads is mostly included in the cost of driving due to taxes
and fees being included.
Line 69 is the sum of lines 70-77 and includes most (all?) driving related
expenses.
additional data: Ave bus trip length = 3.75 (236736 / 63,129) mile, fare
= $1.70 2hr; $2.47/day (monthly pass) (2 zone).
Min transit daily travel length required to save money over driving:
$2.47 / $0.294= 8.4 mile.
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