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Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design Hacienda Business Park

Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design Hacienda Business Park. Steve Raney, James Paxson, David Maymudes EPA Collaborative Sustainability Network grant: Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages A planning study: design details

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Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design Hacienda Business Park

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  1. Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design Hacienda Business Park • Steve Raney, James Paxson, David Maymudes • EPA Collaborative Sustainability Network grant: Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages • A planning study: design details • Last mile PRT solution interacting with transit & carpooling • Suburban job center / “edge city” • ? Helpful for other locations & applications • See maps.

  2. PRT – Personal Rapid Transit • Feeder / Distributor / Circulator • Similar to a monorail. Video, MS Campus • High service level, no waiting, faster than a car. • Non-stop, 30 MPH • Bypasses intermediate stations • Ride alone or with 1-2 people you choose • Convenient stops by buildings (not on street) • Comfortable, quiet, safe, no exhaust • 24x7 • 6 development efforts underway • UK, Sweden, Korea, MN, TX, Dubai.

  3. Train first mile Walk Bike, scooter, Segway Bus Flexpool first mile Short carpool pick up • Improved match-making • Shared parking, nuride Long carpool first mile PRT shuttle system LAST MILE mid-day trips Comprehensive, Integrated MobilityDoor to Door Centralized Cars: share, rent, ride home Delivery services, Personal activities, Business services • Web/wireless coordination • Supportive policy context • Scale!

  4. Hacienda (HBP) Background • End of BART • Beyond East Bay hills – edge of Bay Area • Fastest growing • Worst commute stats: • 83% SOV • 11% rideshare • 1% BART • 0.7% bus • 1.7% bike/ped.

  5. Hacienda Business Park, Pleasanton • 10 MM s.f. ($3BB) • 19,000 jobs • Auto-centered • 3,500 residents • “HBP+” 2015 • 9,500 residents • 29,000 jobs • 1MM s.f. retail • 185 edge cities.

  6. Hacienda PRT • Jobs, retail, housing, parks • 15 mi one-way track • 47 stations • Huge mixed use transit village • More complicated • MS campus • Stanfrd Rsrch Pk.

  7. Design: people map • Connect the dots • 1,000 people per PRT station (goal 1,000 trips) • How do you get this data? • 615, 700, 772, …, 1364, 1400, 1700.

  8. Design:200 meter walk radius

  9. Design: Superblocks, etc • Ped hostility (visual boredom, fast cars) • Avoid pedestrian street crossings (Don’t have a PRT station serve two sides of a street) • 3 canals. 3 crossings with inexpensive prefabricated bridges (avoid a PRT station).

  10. HBPSingle Family Homes

  11. Design: Superblocks, etc • Focus? • Distance to office front door? • Guideway length? • Curves / ride quality / speed?

  12. 4 Tranport Hubs • Carsharing • Bus stops • SFH crossing • Inexpensive bridge • Homeowner concerns.

  13. 3 PRT loops • Semi-independent for higher capacity

  14. “Horizontal mixed use” • Urban mixed use: convenience: “walk to a quart of milk.” 4 story apts, retail on first floor. • HBP (great mix of uses, via auto access) • IKEA, Best Buy, Pier 1, Barnes and Noble, Bed Bath and Beyond, Old Navy, WalMart • Recreation: gyms, spas, creekside hiking/biking trails, city parks, and a 20-screen multiplex cinema with IMAX • Variety of shops and restaurants at varying price points • Services: daycare, bank, copy-making, financial, real-estate, dry cleaners, dentist, doctor, optometrist, children’s educational centers, middle school, tanning, and nail salons • Thus, “PRT+walk” (horizonal movement) to access uses. • HBP will in-fill w/ walkable mixed use over time.

  15. Ridership Guesstimate • Pencil out a biz case – 57K trips/day (thus 3 loops) • 3 PRT trips per day per resident • 9,500 residents • 29,000 workers • 0.5 shopping/recreation, 0.5 commute-related • residents: more trips per person • Needs research.

  16. PRT Grocery Shopping? • Hook N Go:

  17. Flexpooling Workers cooperate to reduce traffic along specific corridors. HBP workers with long commutes (and empty seats) spend a few minutes to pick up workers with shorter commutes. Village Pkwy Route Dougherty Rd. Route San Ramon Road Route Hacienda PRT System 20+ cars per hour Cellular & FasTrak/RFID Taxis/shuttles too Background checks, arrival verification, reputation ratings Some drivers leave I680 early to make pickups. Santa Rita Road Route Valley Ave. Route Hopyard Road Route

  18. Promising Results (85 surveys) • Remove 5,000 autos, in-fill 50 acres • Huge transit village  land value increase • 1.4 PRT trips/day/worker => PRT: profitable • Apply to 6M workers in major emp. centers • 1.98M cars, 12B VMT, 424M gals, 4MM tons CO2 .

  19. Political Chances for HBP PRT?

  20. THE END

  21. Why is BART ridership low? • Doesn’t match O/D • Limited parking at many BART stations • Auto welcoming policy at job site (vs. downtown SF $20 per day parking) • Serpentine BART routes

  22. Cellular Solutions • Marauder’s Map (GPS) • Transit, rideshare connections • Like NextBus • Get home safe (Big Sister is watching).

  23. Steve Raney Resume • Cities21 (next generation smart growth) founder • Palo Alto, CA. Bay Area • Columbia MBA, RPI Computer Science Masters, Berkeley Transportation Planning Masters • Project Mgr: BART Group Rapid Transit Study • MS Technology Evangelist, Silicon Valley • GPS / cellular commute trip reduction patents • 6 Transportation Research Board, 2 TRR papers • Habitat for Humanity Training Coordinator.

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