AgdaPkt 2016-10-17 Closed and Special Joint SA PFA

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Citywide Transportation Plan: Scope of Work 8.B. - Page 16 October 2016 Page 11 of 21 surveys (to identify traffic cutting through residential neighborhoods) using a big data vendor such as StreetLight. Deliverables:Draft and Final Existing Transportation Conditions Report TASK D: PERFORMANCE MONITORING Transportation systems have traditionally been evaluated in terms of mobility for cars, not necessarily people. The Citywide Transportation Plan provides the opportunity to break from the status quo not only because it advances performance for transit riders, bicyclists, and pedestrians, but also because it seeks to evaluate these modes on their own merits, rather than simply citing non-driving modes as a means of reducing traffic congestion for cars. At the same time, automobiles cannot be ignored.In keeping with the intent of the Citywide Transportation Plan,the document's evaluation metrics must also embody a truly multimodal approach. Task D.1: Performance Measurement Criteria We will work with the City to develop a set of performance measurement criteria that may be considered for evaluating the performance of the overall transportation system performance as well as individual projects and programs.Criteria will consider those developed for the City's Downtown Transit Center and Broadway Streetcar study but will be expanded to include a more citywide perspective. At a minimum, criteria will include measures of vehicular mobility, such as vehicle miles travelled (VMT) and key corridor travel times, as well as measures of access and safety for other travel modes. As part of this task, additional performance measurement criteria will be developed to include the following: • Transit Reliability: Different metrics can be extracted based on direction of travel, user- defined segment of route, and time of day. Fehr& Peers' Reliability+ tool enables users to look at travel time variability (i.e. the coefficient of variation of travel time) and speed by segment on transit routes in the City to pinpoint the specific locations of a route where reliability issues occur. This approach enables allows the City to target areas of a route for improvement based on the biggest impact on service reliability and travel time.The output from our tool can be visualized in a variety of ways in order to enable agencies to effectively communicate detailed information to decision-makers and the public. We will apply Reliability+ to the main transit corridors in Redwood City, which include Woodside, Middlefield, and El Camino Real.