| Sorting out the numbers here: - 15 vans. - 37,000 trips / week (6-day service). I suspect most are on weekdays. - 6,170 trips/day - 13.5 hour operation (5:30 am - 7 pm) - ~457 trips / hour - ~30 trips / van-hour I'm not sure how many seats per van, though I suspect 6--9 (3 rows of 3 seats). If a trip is 15 minutes, then that's an average of 7.5 passengers/trip. Keep in mind that net trips includes the deadhead (no passenger) portion. The ridership numbers seem unusually high to me. I'd be interested in seeing trip profiles. By comparison, BART in the SF Bay Area has an annual ridership of over 20 million, and over 104,000 weekday riders. (I also suspect a Bart rider is two trips.) Bart moves 3x what Wilson are claiming for weekly numbers, and roughly as many people in an hour as Wilson does in a day. The Transbay Tunnel can accommodate 24 ten-car trainsets per hour. Each car can carry more than 200 passengers at crush load, or 48,000 passengers/hour for the tube as a whole. https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/corecapacity https://www.bart.gov/about/history/cars Put another way, microtransit is trying to shoehorn transit into a sprawl- and car-centric urban landscape. Dense development and well-travelled routes are what make transit efficient and viable. |