San Joaquin Regional Transit District

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RTDs Regional Operations Center Developing a
Standard Facility Design Californias Pubic
Community Transportation Conference
Expo November 7, 2008
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Where is San Joaquin County?

• San Joaquin County
• 7 Incorporated Cities
• Rural Communities
• Unincorporated County areas
• Our service area covers nearly 1500
  square miles
• Service area populationapproximately 850,000

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RTDs Services

• Fixed Route
• 42 Stockton Metro area fixed routes
• Service 365 days a year including night- and
  weekend-only routes
• Trolley routes provide regular daily service as
  well as special event service between Midtown and
  Downtown Stockton

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RTDs Services

• Intercity Fixed Route
• 5 routes connecting Stockton to
• Lodi
• Tracy
• Manteca
• Ripon
• Lathrop

• 5 Countywide Hopper deviated fixed routes

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RTDs Services

• 18 Commuter Routes
• Service to the Bay Area and Sacramento
• Dial-A-Ride
• Stockton Metro
• Countywide

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Bus Rapid Transit Metro Express (Route 40)

• Clean, quiet, and efficient diesel-electric
  hybrid buses provide frequent, limited-stop
  express service
• First phase of RTDs Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
  program
• Connects Downtown Transit Center, Mall Transfer
  Station, and north Stockton
• RTDs highest ridership route

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The Downtown Transit Center

• 2 story, 28,000 sq. ft. building blends new
  construction and3 historic façades
• Customer Service Center provides schedules, route
  planning information, and bus pass sales
• Indoor passenger waiting area
• On-site Police satellite station 72 security
  cameras
• RTD administrative offices on 2nd floor
• Gleasons Ice Cream Café occupies 2,100 sq. ft.
  retail space

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The Downtown Transit Center

• Stocktons downtown public transit hub
• 6500 passengers pass through here daily
• Nearly all routes connect at the DTC
• 1 full city block with 4 bus lanes
• 2 Passenger Boarding Platforms provide 20
  sheltered, off-street bus stops

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Regional Operations Center (ROC)

• RTD has three administrative and operating
  facilities
• Downtown Transit Center (DTC)
• Metro Operations Facility (built in 1979)
• County Operations Facility (former grocery
  warehouse)
• GOALBuild a Regional Operations Center (ROC)
• Estimated Cost 40M
• Partial funding available
• Consolidate RTD Operations
• Eliminate Metro facility
• Maintain the DTC

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Regional Operations Center (ROC)

• Design
• Estimated costs--2-3 million
• Estimated time--2 years
• RTD staff toured OCTAs newly opened Santa Ana
  Operations Facility during the APTA Conference in
  2006 and then again during the California Transit
  Associations Conference in 2007 and thought
  about using the OCTA design to save time and
  costs

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Regional Operations Center (ROC)

• Partnership with Monterey Salinas Transit (MST)
• MST was also planning to build a new Operations
  Center and was visiting transit facilities
  looking for design concepts
• MST liked the OCTA design
• MST and RTD met to discuss challenges with recent
  projects and the possibility of using the OCTA
  design
• RTD and MST held preliminary discussions with
  OCTA Staff and Design Engineers and concluded
  there might be an opportunity to save significant
  time and costs using the OCTA design
• RTD and MST held meetings with the Federal
  Transit Administration (FTA) to discuss
  procurement options to maximize cost savings

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Regional Operations Center (ROC)

• Design
• The OCTA Board and CEO were supportive of the
  concept
• Large groups of RTD and MST staff, including
  Union and Board representatives, visited OCTA to
  tour the facility

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Regional Operations Center (ROC)

• Possible Advantages
• Very Obvious
• Save time and money
• Less obvious
• Enhanced staff involvement in design process
• Better end product
• Pending Funding
• RTD and MST projects are not fully funded
• STIP and Prop 1B
• Measure K
• 5309
• Public/private partnerships?
• Economic stimulus funds?
• Other funding options?