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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority<br />

Proposed Fiscal Year 2017 Budget<br />

Appendix D<br />

o Cost Effectiveness: Annual boardings per annual platform hour greater than 30<br />

applied consistently in all jurisdictions<br />

Routes which do not meet the criteria described above are classified as non-regional. Regional<br />

and non-regional bus subsidy is allocated to the jurisdictions using the following formulas.<br />

• Regional Bus Subsidy Allocation. The distribution of regional bus subsidy to the<br />

jurisdictions is based on a weighted, four-factor formula in the following proportions:<br />

1. Density weighted population 25%<br />

2. Revenue hours 25%<br />

3. Revenue miles 35%<br />

4. Average weekday ridership 15%<br />

Density weighted population is determined by taking the urbanized area population<br />

distribution for the compact area (50 percent weighting) and combining it with the<br />

weighted population density (urbanized population divided by area). The formula<br />

prorates the urbanized population distribution by people per square mile.<br />

The revenue hours factor is determined by taking the annual revenue hours assigned to<br />

each jurisdiction divided by the total regional revenue hours. The revenue miles factor<br />

is determined by taking total revenue miles assigned to each jurisdiction divided by the<br />

total regional revenue miles. Ridership is determined by taking the average weekday<br />

ridership (month of May sample) for each jurisdiction divided by the total average<br />

weekday ridership.<br />

• Non-Regional Bus Subsidy Allocation. The distribution of non-regional bus subsidy to<br />

the jurisdictions is computed as follows:<br />

1. Identify the costs of all Metrobus service, regional and non-regional<br />

2. Identify the costs which would accrue for regional Metrobus service if no nonregional<br />

bus service were provided<br />

3. Determine the costs of non-regional service by subtracting the regional Metrobus<br />

costs, as calculated in step two, from the costs of all Metrobus service<br />

4. Divide the costs of non-regional service as computed in step three by total platform<br />

hours for non-regional service<br />

5. Identify the non-regional platform hours for each jurisdiction<br />

6. Multiply the platform hours for each jurisdiction by the hourly rate<br />

7. Determine the revenue for each jurisdiction<br />

8. Subtract from costs the revenue as determined in step seven<br />

Formulas 3 and 4: Rail Maximum Fare and Base Subsidy Allocations<br />

The rail subsidy consists of two components: the maximum fare component and the base rail<br />

component. The total maximum fare subsidy is deducted from the total rail subsidy, and the result<br />

is allocated based on the base subsidy formula.<br />

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