ACTC Monthly Council
March 2020 Service Changes
- Presented by Philip St. Pierre, Director of Service Planning and Scheduling
- Blue Line Library being renamed Silver Sline
- Blue Line South Hills Village renamed Blue Line
- Multiple routes will receive limited weekend service
- 28 will be temporary rerouted due to construction
Follow-up on Stop Consolidation
- Discussed post-removal analysis.
- In December 16 and 51 improved on-time performance and travel time without a loss of ridership compared to Dec 2019
- Discussed minor public engagment changes
- More frequently check if the pole signs have been removed
- More people on buses handing out information
PAAC Monthly Board Meeting
- PAAC Board Meeting 2020-01-24
- Katharine Kelleman’s Remarks
- Year in Review
- Fare Study started
- Changed BRT plans based on community feedback
- Bus Stop Consolidation started
- Brought back employee appreciation programs
- Improved on-time performance
- Started working on mobile fare payment platform
- Public Comments
- Christina Howell
- Bloomfield Development Corporation (BDC)
- Specific Request: Millvale stop be kept
- Stop selection process is not transparent
- Requests all data being used for selection be released
- BDC would like to be involved in the decision making instead of advocating against change
- Fred Mergner
- PAAC should cease Bus Stop Consolidation
- Location of bus stops is import for day-to-day, non-commuting, usage.
- Bus stops being near destinations is important when making short trips
- Should be encouraging mid-day and evening usage
- Christina Howell
- Year in Review
PAAC Community Meetings Schedule
PAAC Board Committee Reports
- Planning and Stakeholder Relations
- PAAC Planning and Stakeholder Relations 2020-01-17
- January Planning Committee Meeting Slideset.FINAL for 1.17.2020 Meeting
- Tactical Plan Update
- Customer and Stakeholder relations
- Marketing
- Prev: Perception Research
- Now: Develop Potential Brand
- Next: Review with Board and Public
- Economic Impact Stuy
- Employee Involvment
- Community Involvment
- Deb Skillings plans special events
- Melissa Girty creating a Speaker’s Bureau
- Reboot Relationships with Municipal leaders (M. Girty)
- Connect with community non-profits
- Active COMPTO (Conference of Minority Transportation Official) chapter
- Marketing
- Employee Engagment
- Get Baseline for Engagement and Acknowledgement
- Compensation Desk Audit: completed April 2019
- Employee Engagement Survey: completed, available in Feb 2020
- Implemented PeopleSoft Self Service
- Focus on Employee Wellness
- Expand fitness room survey to cover all locations
- Encourage employee wellness through financial incentives
- Encourage use of the Employee Assistance Program
- 24/7 service
- Includes 1hr legal services
- Roth IRA contributions
- Port Authority University Concept
- Consolidate Operations Traning
- Succession plan for key positions (relaunched 2015)
- Promote continuous learning and training
- Increase and improve management training
- Labor Relations
- “300 Committee”
- Open door forum and other committees
- Employee Recognition
- Annual Event Calendar
- Appreciation Events
- Perfect Attendance
- Safety
- Recommendations from customers
- Years of service — 1st and every 5th
- Get Baseline for Engagement and Acknowledgement
- Customer and Stakeholder relations
- General Planning
- Bus Stop Consolidation ongoing
- Accepting comments for current round (routes 48 and 88) until Feb 7th
- Looking at data from previous round (routes 16 and 51)
- Long Range Plan
- Brought resolution for consultant, notice to proceed in Feb 2020
- Develop vision, priority corridor, project list
- 2045 Horizon
- Participating in
- City 2070 plan
- FTC long range planning
- Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership Mobility Plan
- Consultant Scope
- Data Gathering
- Public Outreach
- Identify network gaps
- Prioritize future corridors and facilities including garages, transit centers (inc. Penn Station) for transfers
- RFP Timeline
- RPF summer 2019
- Internal review of 4 proposals
- Micheal Baker seemed to understand the scope and needs of the project
- $1.6mm over 2 years
- Bus Rapid Transit
- Moving to finalize all designs
- Bus Stop Consolidation ongoing
- Community Outreach Update
- Community Meetings
- Discuss larger projects
- Is in addition to and not a replacement for other outreach
- Would like to do at least annually at locations around the county
- PAAC Community Meetings Schedule 2020-01-24
- Community Meetings
- Performance Oversight Committee
- PAAC Performance Oversight Committee 2020-01-17
- PAAC Technology Committee 2020-01-17
- Refresh Kits for Energy Storage had only a single application because of how regional sales territories are split up for this specific device and because there is only a single manufacturer
- Electrical updates to Mt. Washington Transit Tunnel
- Include Needled Ave power substation upgrades
- Will allow power from either end of the tunnel to power portal building
- Since will require single track operations, there are provisions to return tunnel to 2 way operation within an hour if there is a problem on the Allentown line
- Finance Committee
- Technology Committee
- Board_Technology_Committee_Jan 2020 Meeting Slides.FINAl for 1.16.2020 Meeting
- Clever Disruption Management resolution
- Eases dealing with road closures
- Immediate information to customers
- Upgrade legacy IVN3 to IVN5
- Open Data Initiative
- What is Open Data?
- Published online
- Public can access, save, and use
- Government data is owned by the public
- Empowers citizens
- Reduces load on ad-hoc requests
- 5 new datasets
- Monthly ridership by route
- Monthly on-time performance by route
- Scheduled trip count
- Bus Stop Usage
- Expanded GIS Data
- https://www.portauthority.org/opendata has KPI (Key Performance Indicators) score cards
- What is Open Data?
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