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A Strategic Look at Friday Exceptions in Weekday Schedules for Urban Transit:Improving Service, Capturing Leisure Markets, and Achieving Cost Savings by Mining Automated Fare Collection Ridership Data
This paper describes a strategic business case for weekday exception scheduling in urban transitservices, specifically, treating Fridays differently from other weekdays. As commuters trendtowards more flexible work scheduling, telecommuting arrangements, and 41/2-day weeks, gapsbetween midweek and Friday ridership widened. Exception schedules neither were nor areunusual; transit operators ran full Saturday lunchtime rush-hours in the interwar era, whileprivate bus companies, airlines, and freight railroads operate exceptions today. Systematicconsideration of day-of-week scheduling confirmed that Friday modifications were bestleveraged in better matching service supply to ridership demand. Longitudinal analysis of NewYork City Transit’s (NYCT) Automated Fare Collection (AFC) data revealed more regularcommuters skipped Friday’s trip than other weekdays’. Analysis by route/time-period for 14representative routes over ten months show 4.7% lower ridership on Fridays, potentiallyallowing 7.4% reductions in vehicle-hours operated. Available savings were route-specific, with25% service reductions possible on some, whereas 25% service fortification was required onothers with higher Friday ridership. Implementing separate Friday schedules systemwide couldprovide resource savings of $13 million (0.6%) for reinvestment elsewhere in the network.Additionally, reduced Friday crew requirements could lead to 1.2% increases in desirableweekend-inclusive regular days-off (RDOs) and 2.4% reduction in non-preferred midweekRDOs. Two prerequisites for realizing savings are: a computerized run-cutting system and aninfrastructure for ridership analysis across multiple days, routes, and time periods. Transitagencies should determine if its routes can benefit from weekday exceptions. If productivityimprovements are indicated, contracts permitting weekday work program exceptions can benegotiated.
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