Cost of Trimet Transit

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

Commuter Rail

$25 per ride

14.7 mile is max. length ride: $25 / 14.7

$1.70

Max ride =14.7 mi, so this in lowest cost

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

Mode & Data Source

User-operated transportation (2005)(line 69)

Person Miles of Travel  (2005) Table VM1

Car (BEA)

(divide this)  $988.2e9

(by this)   4,884,557e6 person-miles (to get ->)

$0.202

Calculated CAR cost per passenger-mile

Average people per car= 1.634 nationally, about 1.3 in Portland. Apply 1.634/1.3 factor to $0.202=

$0.254

Calculated CAR adjusted for Portland

User-operated transportation (2005 - line 69)

Total Rural and Urban miles (2005 -Table VM1

Car (BEA)

(divide this) $988.2e9

(by this) 2,989,807e6 vehicle miles (to get ->)

$0.3305 (veh.-mi.)

Calculated CAR Cost/vehicle-mile

Average passengers per vehicle = 4,884,557e6 / 2,989,807e6 = 1.634

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 (1.634 ) to get Cost per passenger-mile: 0.522 / 1.634

$0.319

Calculated AAA CAR

Cost of Portland Streetcar  data from PortlandStreetcar.org

Total Annual Cost

Total Annual riders; Average ride length

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)

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