vanpool ntd reporting - by lora byala - foursquare
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Vanpool Boot Camp: Marching Orders - November 7, 2011 - Part 13TRANSCRIPT
Vanpool NTD Reporting Vanpool Boot CampACT Chesapeake Chapter and Mobility Lab
November 7, 2011
What is NTD? National Transit Database (NTD) collects data on
all modes of transit Metrorail, light rail, streetcar, commuter rail,
bus, paratransit – and yes, even vanpools NTD is administered by Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) Data includes operations, usage, and cost data Data is used as input to formulas to distribute
Federal Transit Act 5307 funds to metropolitan areas based on transit vehicle-miles, passenger miles and other factors
What needs to be reported for vanpools? Total costs
Capital and operating Vehicle miles traveled Number of passengers Passenger miles traveled Incidents (crashes or criminal activity)
How is data collected? Each van needs to collect daily information on
how many riders there are and where they get on and off Sampling is allowed, but most agencies prefer
consistency How data is collected varies by program
Most are paper-based but moving toward use of technology
Van operators provide cost and other information
Information is provided to the public agency to report to NTDCurrently, vanpool programs report to NTD. In the currently proposed
rule, each vanpool operator would need to report. The final rule is still pending, but the outcome would have a huge impact on the viability of a reporting program in this region.
Total Cost Data is Required Consistent with other modes, vanpools must collect
and report total operating and capital costs for the service, regardless of who pays the costs: Vehicle operations
Fuel Insurance
Vehicle maintenance Non-vehicle maintenance General administration
Advertising and promotion Ride-matching
Capital costs Vehicle purchase or lease
What makes a vanpool program eligible to report? For a Vanpool program to be reportable to the NTD:
Open to the public Any vans that are restricted a priori to particular employers and
which do not participate in the public ride-matching service of the vanpool are not public transportation and must be excluded from the NTD report
Actively engaged in: Advertising the vanpool service to the public, and Matching interested members of the public to vans with
available seats In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990 and implementing regulations at 49 CFR37.31 A record-keeping system in place to meet NTD Reporting
Public Certification The vanpool program must certify that it is publicly
sponsored, as either: Directly operated by a public entity Operated by a public entity via a contract for purchased
transportation service with a private provider Operated by a private entity as a grant recipient or sub-
recipient from a public entity Operated by an independent private entity with approval
from a public entity that certifies that the vanpool program is helping meet the overall transportation needs of the local urbanized area
Organization Type A vanpool operator may be:
A public provider directly-operating the vanpool
A public entity operating the vanpool through a purchased transportation contract with a private provider
A private provider that is directly operating the vanpool with (or without) subsidy from a public entity
