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KING STREET TRANSIT PILOT

November Update

NOVEMBER UPDATE

The King Street Transit Pilot is about moving people more efficiently on transit, improving public space, and supporting business and economic prosperity along King Street. Primarily, the transit pilot aims to improve transit reliability, speed, and capacity on the busiest surface transit route in the entire city, by giving transit priority on King Street from Bathurst Street to Jarvis Street.

The monitoring and evaluation of the pilot project involves the collection of data before andduring the pilot in order to assess the impacts and benefits of the pilot project. Data is collected through methods such as GPS tracking of TTC streetcars, and using Bluetooth sensors to evaluate car travel times. Monthly updates will be provided reflecting the latest data and information available to the City.

This update provides an overview of the results of pilot monitoring during the month of November.

AVERAGE TRANSIT TRAVEL TIMES• The reliability of streetcar travel times has improved for both the morning (7-10 a.m.) and

afternoon (4-7 p.m.) rush hours. The most significant improvement has been during the afternoon rush hour, where the upper range of streetcar travel times has improved from 25.0 minutes to 22.0 minutes eastbound, and 24.0 to 19.7 minutes westbound.

• There has been an improvement in the even spacing of streetcars during the morning rush hour, with the number of days where targets were met improving to 80% (from 37%) for eastbound streetcars and 67% (from 32%) for westbound streetcars.

• Average streetcar travel times have improved for the afternoon rush hours. The most significant improvement has been westbound, with a 2.6 minute improvement in average travel time through the pilot area.

• Staff will continue to monitor travel times and reliability for streetcars and identify opportunities for improvements.

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIMES (MIN) BEFORE AFTER CHANGE

AM RUSH HOUR Eastbound 15.3 14.9 -0.47-10A.M.

Westbound 15.2 14.3 -0.9

PM RUSH HOUR Eastbound 18.9 17.6 -1.34-7P.M.

Westbound 19.0 16.4 -2.6

AVERAGE VEHICLE TRAVEL TIMES• Average vehicle travel times on most streets have varied (+/-) less than a minute compared

to before the pilot.

• In some cases, where increases in vehicle travel time of more than a minute are present, other conditions have been identified which most likely caused the delay. For example:

• Emergency utility work on Richmond Street negatively impacted travel times on Richmond Street.

• Staff will continue to monitor car travel times for all routes and identify opportunities for improvements.

COMING SOONThroughout the course of the pilot, the City will also be measuring or reviewing data on the following metrics, which will be made public as they come available in Q1 2018:

• Transit Ridership for King Street;• Car Volumes;• Cycling Volumes;• Pedestrian Volumes;• Economic Point-of-sale Data; and• Parking Utilization.

Further, as the pilot progresses, the majority of data collected for the pilot will become available on the City's open data catalogue. The catalogue can be accessed at: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/open-data/

King StreetTransit Pilot

November2017

AFTER (NOVEMBER)Data Collection Dates: November 12 to December 2, 2017

BEFOREData Collection Dates: September 21 to October 14, 2017 and October 30 to November 8, 2017 (Intervening period removed due to TTC track construction at Queen Streetand McCaul Street).

STREETCAR METRICS King StreetTransit Pilot

November2017

W E S T B O U N D

E A S T B O U N D

BATHURST - SPADINA SPADINA - UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY - YONGE YONGE - JARVIS

12.0 KM/H

11.0 KM/H 9.8 KM/H

10.6 KM/H

10.8 KM/H

8.9 KM/H

11.9 KM/H

11.9 KM/H

BATHURST - SPADINA SPADINA - UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY - YONGE YONGE - JARVIS

9.5 KM/H

9.5 KM/H 8.0 KM/H

9.2 KM/H

9.6 KM/H

7.4 KM/H

8.8 KM/H

10.3 KM/H

WEEKDAY | A.M. PEAK PERIOD (7-10A.M.) WEEKDAY | P.M. PEAK PERIOD (4-7P.M.)

15.2min

15.3min

W E S T B O U N D

E A S T B O U N D

19.0min

18.9min

W E S T B O U N D

E A S T B O U N D

BATHURST - SPADINA SPADINA - UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY - YONGE YONGE - JARVIS

10.7 KM/H

11.3 KM/H 9.7 KM/H

11.5 KM/H

10.0 KM/H

10.8 KM/H

14.5 KM/H

10.1 KM/H

BATHURST - SPADINA SPADINA - UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY - YONGE YONGE - JARVIS

9.9 KM/H

9.5 KM/H 8.7 KM/H

10.1 KM/H

9.3 KM/H

9.1 KM/H

11.5 KM/H

8.8 KM/H

WEEKDAY | A.M. PEAK PERIOD (7-10A.M.) WEEKDAY | P.M. PEAK PERIOD (4-7P.M.)

14.3min

14.9min

16.4min

17.6min

W E S T B O U N D

E A S T B O U N D

EASTBOUND WESTBOUND EASTBOUND WESTBOUND

WEEKDAYA.M. PEAK PERIOD (7-10A.M.)

WEEKDAYP.M. PEAK PERIOD (4-7P.M.)

WEEKDAYA.M. PEAK PERIOD (7-10A.M.)

WEEKDAYP.M. PEAK PERIOD (4-7P.M.)

TR

AV

EL

TIM

E (

MIN

)T

RA

VE

L T

IME

(M

IN)

RE

LIA

BIL

ITY

%R

EL

IAB

ILIT

Y %

64.7 60.5 64.6 63.4

70.210.0

20.0

30.0

66.075.4 71.4

11.3

19.0

11.7

16.7

14.3

11.7

18.7

15.3 15.2

12.0

17.7

14.9

14.0

24.0

13.0

19.7

16.4

13.0

25.0

18.9

13.0

22.0

17.619.0

TR

AV

EL

TIM

E (

MIN

)

STREETCAR TRAVEL TIME RANGE

STREETCAR SEGMENT SPEEDS AND TRAVEL TIMES

(BATHURST - JARVIS)FULL ROUTE TRAVEL TIME (DUNDAS W. STATION - BROADVIEW STATION)

EASTBOUND WESTBOUND

EASTBOUND WESTBOUND

EASTBOUND WESTBOUND

EASTBOUND WESTBOUND

WEEKDAYA.M. PEAK PERIOD (7-10A.M.)

WEEKDAYP.M. PEAK PERIOD (4-7P.M.)

37%

80%

32%

67%

37% 40% 42%

13%

HEADWAY RELIABILITY* % OF DAYS WITH ACCEPTABLE SPACING

AVG.

RA

NG

E*

BEFORE AFTER (NOVEMBER)Data Collection Dates: TTC: September 21 to October 14, 2017 and October 30 to November 8, 2017 (Intervening period removed due to TTC track construction at Queen Streetand McCaul Street).

Data Collection Dates: TTC: November 12, 2017 to December 02, 2017

*90% of trips fall within this range

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME

*Headway Reliability: The value shown represents the percentage of days where the target for headway reliability, or regular spacing of service, was achieved. More reliable wait times reduces overall journey times and allows for more even distribution of travel demand.

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

( - 0 . 9 M I N )

( - 0 . 4 M I N )

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME

( - 2 . 6 M I N )

( - 1 . 3 M I N )

CAR METRICS

EAST-WEST STREETS NORTH-SOUTH STREETS

King StreetTransit Pilot

November2017

9.4

9.8

10.5

8.8

8.4

9.0

WEEKDAY | A.M. PEAK PERIOD (7-10A.M.)

WEEKDAY | P.M. PEAK PERIOD (4-7P.M.) WEEKDAY | P..M PEAK PERIOD (4-7P.M.)

EASTBOUND (BATHURST - JARVIS) WESTBOUND (JARVIS - BATHURST)

FRONT

ADELAIDE* RICHMOND

QUEEN

DUNDAS

QUEEN

DUNDAS10.6

10.8

11.3

11.8

7.9

8.0

11.913.5

WELLINGTON*

FRONT*

*Adelaide EB - Spadina to Jarvis *Wellington WB - Jarvis to Blue Jays | *Front WB - Yonge to Bathurst

+0.2min

+0.5min

+0.1min

+1.5min

+0.4min+0.0min+0.7min -0.1min -0.4min -0.2min +0.2min+0.3min +0.3min +0.1min +0.0min

-0.2min

+1.3min

-0.2min

-0.5min

10.3

10.1

8.2

8.5

EASTBOUND (BATHURST - JARVIS) WESTBOUND (JARVIS - BATHURST)

FRONT

ADELAIDE* RICHMOND

QUEEN

DUNDAS

QUEEN

DUNDAS

WELLINGTON*

FRONT*

+0.8min

-0.1min

+2.0min

+1.2min

-0.2min

+0.1min

+0.9min

+0.8min

+2.5min

WEEKDAY | A.M PEAK PERIOD (7-10A.M.)

5.3 5.8

8.4

6.9

4.7

NORTHBOUND (FRONT - DUNDAS) SOUTHBOUND (DUNDAS - FRONT)

NORTHBOUND (FRONT - DUNDAS) SOUTHBOUND (DUNDAS - FRONT)

BAT

HU

RST

SPAD

INA

UN

IVER

STIY

YON

GE

JAR

VIS

5.1 5.4

3.0

5.44.1

6.1

7.8

5.1

8.1

4.8

7.0

12.1

9.8 9.88.5

6.0 5.8

8.3

6.5

4.5

BAT

HU

RST

SPAD

INA

UN

IVER

STIY

YON

GE

JAR

VIS

5.4 5.7

3.3

5.54.1

+0.2min+0.0min +0.4min +0.2min +0.2min -0.9min-0.8min +0.6min +0.4min +1.7min

BAT

HU

RST

SPAD

INA

UN

IVER

STIY

YON

GE

JAR

VIS

BAT

HU

RST

SPAD

INA

UN

IVER

STIY

YON

GE

JAR

VIS

6.1

8.0

5.5

8.3

5.0 6.2

11.210.4 10.2 10.2

AVERAGE CAR TRAVEL TIMES (MIN)

13.7

16.4

14.7

17.3

15.1

15.3

14.5

10.9

14.3

14.5

16.3

16.7

18.5

14.9

15.4

15.4

11.7

16.9

BEFORE AFTER (NOVEMBER)Data Collection Dates: Vehicles: September 21 to October 14, 2017 and October 30 to November 8, 2017 (Intervening period removed due to TTC track construction at Queen Streetand McCaul Street).

Data Collection Dates: Vehicles: November 12 to November 30, 2017