Operations Committee June 19, 2012 Page 2 Agenda Disposition Presentation 11. Unscheduled Business 12. Call of Dates for Future Committee Meetings 13. Adjournment Information Information Approval Chairman Scott Robin Salters Chairman Scott Note*: Public comment may be made at the written request of a member of the public specifying the topic(s) to be addressed and provided to the Agency’s information officer at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.
METRO - <strong>Transit</strong> Operations Division FY2012– 3rd Quarter Summary Report to the President /CEO and Board of Commissioners Financials FY2012 FY2012 FY2012 FY2012 FY2011 Diff FY2012 YTD Actual Budgeted Variance % Actual FY2011 Revenue $43,512,044 $42,915,171 $596,873 1.39% $41,438,777 $2,073,267 Expenses $139,587,018 $147,673,524 ($8,086,506) -5.48% $134,914,279 $4,672,739 Budget Directed Loss (Ops. Dept.) ($96,074,974) ($104,758,353) $8,683,379 -8.29% ($93,475,502) ($2,599,472) <strong>Transit</strong> Operations continues to perform well against budget through the third quarter of FY2012. Expenses are 5.5% below budget, and revenues are higher than budget by 1.4%. FY2012 revenue budget assumed an increase of approximately 4% over FY2011 as a part of the decision not to increase fares until after FY2012. This appears to be the proper decision given increases in ridership approaching 10% and year over year revenues up by over 5%. Year over year expense increases of approximately 3.5% are largely explained by increases in service miles and hours which are both higher by approximately 3% over FY2011 levels. Ridership Comparison System ridership Mode 3rd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. +/- Previous YTD FY2012 YTD FY2011 +/- Previous continues to recover, FY2012 FY2011 Period Period increasing 12.7% for the Rail 3 rd 4,048,700 3,741,569 8.21% 12,602,637 11,999,366 5.03% quarter and 9.56% Bus 7,145,804 6,182,696 15.58% 21,607,711 19,202,520 12.53% year to date improvement Van over 2011. The increases 146,506 138,424 5.84% 435,800 422,207 3.22% are across all modes. System 11,341,010 10,062,689 12.70% 34,646,148 31,624,093 9.56% The third quarter improvements are partially the result of a leap year (extra week day in February), and excellent weather in January causing less of a disincentive to ride than in previous fiscal year. However, March of 2011 and March of 2012 do not have any significant variables that could impact ridership levels, and FY2012 ridership in March was still up almost 5% in 2012. Again, YTD ridership gains are somewhat inflated by the aforementioned weather anomalies and the Cardinals World Series win in the fall. FY12 Revenue Miles FY11 Revenue Miles YTD Service Profiles and System Efficiencies +/- Previous Period FY12 Revenue Hours FY11 Revenue Hours +/- Previous Period Rail 2,379,699 2,352,931 1.14% 99,586 98,197 1.4% Bus 13,981,309 13,526,319 3.36% 1,020,120 986,844 3.4% Van 3,708,283 3,428,843 8.15% 229,465 221,593 3.6% FY12 Pass/ Rev. Mile FY11 Pass/ Rev. Mile +/- Previous Period FY12 Pass / Rev. Hour FY11 Pass / Rev. Hour +/- Previous Period Rail 5.30 5.10 3.85% 126.55 122.20 3.56% Bus 1.55 1.42 8.86% 21.18 19.46 8.85% Van 0.1175 0.1231 -4.56% 1.90 1.91 -0.32% The Service Profile chart to the left shows higher levels of service delivery across all modes. <strong>Metro</strong>Link is up approximately 1.2 % in both miles and hours, largely due to high demands for service during some special events (The World Series for example) and some workarounds for planned maintenance activities. <strong>Metro</strong>Bus has seen service levels adjusted upwards by almost 3.5% due to improved scheduling techniques (a by-product of Automated Vehicle Locator (AVL) System data), Grand Bridge re-routes, and customer demand / over-crowding on several existing bus routes. Call-A-Ride is seeing some growth in customers and trip length, partially due to the increased ¾ mile boundary for the lower ($8.00) fare. Even with the increased operating tempos, fixed route service has shown significant improvements in passengers per hour and passengers per mile in fiscal year 2012, while the extended service areas do have the tendency to de-tune Call-A-Ride service. As well as the recent system performance has been, we are still about 15% below pre-2009 service efficiency results and 12 % behind reported YTD FY 2008 ridership.
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