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SAN LUIS OBISPO REGION
COORDINATED HUMAN SERVICES-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLAN
3.4.6 Trips Currently Provided
People targeted and trips needed must be contrasted with trips provided to understand what
gaps in service might exist. Table 3-14 following shows the level of public transportation trips
provided in the San Luis Obispo region, drawn from SLOCOG’s 2006 SLO Transit Deficiencies
Report and from the Plan’s stakeholder survey information.
A total of 1,993,745 trips were reported by the publicly funded operators, almost 2 million trips,
for FY 05-06. These include 86 percent trips provided on fixed-route service, including the
trolleys, 7 percent provided by community dial-a-ride programs, and 7 percent trips provided by
the CTSA and the TMA vanpools.
Trips reported by 22 human services agencies through the stakeholder survey are 98,712
passenger trips 12 , almost 100,000 trips annually, exclusive of for-profit contractor-reported trips
or the two responding school districts. This was 5 percent of total trips documented in Table 3-
14.
The demand estimates developed in Table 3-13 suggest a range of 780,000 to 2 million trips
needed annually by these target populations. Trips documented here total 1.9 million public
transit trips, plus the additional 96,712 trips reported from the stakeholder survey or almost 2.1
million trips total. Of these 2.1 million documented trips, 375,145 trips or 18 percent are
specialized transit trips, including public dial-a-rides, CTSA trips and trips reported through the
stakeholder survey by social service agencies. This 375,000 trip-level is approximately in the
middle of the range of estimated trips needed. That range was 195,000 to 508,000 passenger
trips needed by the target populations of this plan, developed from a 2000 census basis (Table
3-13).
This chapter documents a variety of unmet trip needs --- by trip type, by geographic area and
time of day and by levels of service required. This suggests that there is latent demand not yet
addressed by the trips currently provided by a mix of public transit and human services
providers. Additionally, riders potentially eligible for ADA services will increase as population
grows and the baby boomer generation increasingly reaches senior status above 65 years of
age where additional specialized transportation trips will need to be served.
12 For reported human service agency trips provided, see Table 3-8, page 41 or Appendix B.
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