PACE

SUBURBAN

BUS

October 25, 2013

T.J. Ross, Executive Director

PACE BY THE NUMBERS

Fleet:

� 229 30’ Buses

� 83 35’ Buses

� 390 40’ Buses

� 442 Paratransit Vehicles

� 796 Vanpool Vans

� 97 Community Transit Vehicles

Facilities:

� 17 Garages/Administrative Facilities

� 9 Transportation Centers

� 9 Park-and-Rides

Employees:

� 1,544 Full-Time Equivalents

2014 Budget:

� $214.760 million for Suburban Bus Operation

� $160.085 million for Regional ADA Operation

� $57.260 million for Suburban Bus Capital

� $45.000 million for Regional ADA Capital

PACE

SERVICES

IN DUPAGE

COUNTY

FIXED ROUTE SERVICES IN

DUPAGE COUNTY

• Weekday ridership – 6762

• Saturday ridership – 878

• Sunday ridership – 180

• Annual ridership – 1.8m

• Weekday revenue miles – 6722

• Saturday revenue miles – 1315

• Sunday revenue miles – 324

• Annual revenue miles – 1.8 m

• 60+ bus routes

• Annual expense - $14.3 m

RIDE DUPAGE

• Customer calls one number to access service

• Seamless borders

• Various service parameters and fare structures

• 12 sponsoring agencies and municipalities participate

• 27 programs are managed

• Pace maintains central database and central complaint system

• Pace uses technology to monitor all service providers

• Ride DuPage is a coordinated paratransit service providing door to door transportation within DuPage County and surrounding areas

Organizational structure

Service access process

PARATRANSIT SERVICE

• Annual ridership- 221,000• Annual revenue hours – 17,000

• Annual revenue miles –274,000

• Annual budget - $5.2 m

PACE INNOVATIONS

AFFECTING DUPAGE

COUNTY

� Detailed Ridership Information

� Detailed On-Time Performance Information

� Bus on Shoulders – I-55

� Intelligent Bus System

� TODSS

� Wi-Fi on Buses

� Ventra

� Oracle ERS

� Radio Starcom System

• Bus On shoulders –I-55

• Bus On shoulders I-90

• Ventra for paratransit

• Belmont Metra to Esplanade

• Restructure 715

• Extend 507 to Naperville

• Connect Elmhurst to Bloomingdale

• Arterial Rapid Transit Investment Plan

• Cook DuPage Corridor Study Results

• Smart Corridors

NEAR TERM

PROJECTS

• 8 cents of every transit operations funding dollar

• 5 cents of every State capital funding dollar

• 8 cents of every Federal capital funding dollar

• Service area contains 67% of region’s jobs

• Number of people, in the Pace service area, living below the low income level has doubled in last 10 years and exceeds the number in the City of Chicago

• Per capita Pace expenditure on transit is 33% of Metra and 12.5% of CTA

CURRENT

PACE

FUNDING

LEVELS

• Mayors locally selected from each County make up Pace Board

• Pace budgets balanced since 1984

• 67% of Pace employees are on defined contribution retirement plans

• Less than 16% of Pace employees eligible for retiree medical benefits

• Pace operating expense per revenue hour is 71% of its peer group average

• Pace has a long history of responding to RTA requests for information and meeting budget preparation deadlines

PACE

GOVERNANCE

DUPAGE INVESTMENT

DECISIONS FOR ART

Five Northern E/W Corridors

• Martingale Road and RohlwingRoad – Pace NW TC to Il-19

• I-290 – Roselle to IL-19

• Devon – Rohlwing to York

• Thorndale/ Elgin –I-290 to York

• IL-19 – Rohlwing to Des Plaines

Five Central N/S Corridors

• Il-83 – Devon to 22nd st

• York – Devon to 22nd st

• I-294 – I-90 to Cermak

• Mannheim – I-190 to Il-19

• Des Plaines River Road – I-190 to IL-19

• I-290 – Des Plaines to I-294

• I-88 – I-294 to Freedom Drive

• Roosevelt Road – Des Plaines to County Farm Road

• Cermak/Butterfield – 54th st to Naperville Rd

• Ogden Ave – IL 83 to Washington St.

• Highland/Main St. – Roosevelt to Ogden

• Finley – Roosevelt to Ogden

• I-355 – Butterfield to Ogden

• Warrenville – Finley to Washington

• Diehl – Naperville to Washington

• Washington – Warrenville to Aurora

• Aurora – Washington to Il-59

SOUTHERN

E/W

CORRIDORS