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Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design Hacienda Business Park
• Steve Raney, James Paxson, David Maymudes
• EPA Collaborative Sustainability Network grant: Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages
• A planning study: design details• Last mile PRT solution interacting
with transit & carpooling• Suburban job center / “edge city”• ? Helpful for other locations &
applications• See maps.
PRT – Personal Rapid Transit• Feeder / Distributor / Circulator
– Similar to a monorail. Video, MS Campus
• High service level, no waiting, faster than a car. – Non-stop, 30 MPH– Bypasses intermediate stations– Ride alone or with 1-2 people you choose– Convenient stops by buildings (not on street)– Comfortable, quiet, safe, no exhaust– 24x7
• 6 development efforts underway– UK, Sweden, Korea, MN, TX, Dubai.
Comprehensive, Integrated MobilityDoor to Door
Centralized Cars:share, rent, ride home
Delivery services, Personal activities, Business services
first mile Train
first mile Bus
Walk
Bike, scooter, Segway
Flexpool
•Web/wireless coordination•Supportive policy context•Scale!
Short carpool pick up
first mileLong carpool
•Improved match-making•Shared parking, nuride
PRT shuttle system LAST MILE mid-day trips
Hacienda (HBP) Background• End of BART• Beyond East Bay
hills – edge of Bay Area
• Fastest growing• Worst commute
stats:– 83% SOV– 11% rideshare– 1% BART– 0.7% bus– 1.7% bike/ped.
Hacienda Business Park, Pleasanton• 10 MM s.f. ($3BB)• 19,000 jobs• Auto-centered• 3,500 residents• “HBP+” 2015
– 9,500 residents– 29,000 jobs– 1MM s.f. retail
• 185 edge cities.
Hacienda PRT• Jobs, retail,
housing, parks• 15 mi one-way
track• 47 stations• Huge mixed use
transit village• More complicated
– MS campus– Stanfrd Rsrch Pk.
Design: people map• Connect the dots
• 1,000 people per PRT station (goal 1,000 trips)– How do you get this data?– 615, 700, 772, …, 1364, 1400, 1700.
Design: Superblocks, etc
• Ped hostility (visual boredom, fast cars)– Avoid pedestrian street crossings (Don’t have a
PRT station serve two sides of a street)
• 3 canals. 3 crossings with inexpensive prefabricated bridges (avoid a PRT station).
Design: Superblocks, etc• Focus?
– Distance to office front door?– Guideway length?– Curves / ride quality / speed?
4 Tranport Hubs•Carsharing•Bus stops
SFH crossing•Inexpensive bridge•Homeowner concerns.
“Horizontal mixed use”• Urban mixed use: convenience: “walk to a quart of
milk.” 4 story apts, retail on first floor. • HBP (great mix of uses, via auto access)
– IKEA, Best Buy, Pier 1, Barnes and Noble, Bed Bath and Beyond, Old Navy, WalMart
– Recreation: gyms, spas, creekside hiking/biking trails, city parks, and a 20-screen multiplex cinema with IMAX
– Variety of shops and restaurants at varying price points– Services: daycare, bank, copy-making, financial, real-
estate, dry cleaners, dentist, doctor, optometrist, children’s educational centers, middle school, tanning, and nail salons
• Thus, “PRT+walk” (horizonal movement) to access uses.
• HBP will in-fill w/ walkable mixed use over time.
Ridership Guesstimate• Pencil out a biz case – 57K trips/day (thus 3
loops)
• 3 PRT trips per day per resident – 9,500 residents
• 29,000 workers– 0.5 shopping/recreation, 0.5 commute-related
• residents: more trips per person– Needs research.
Hacienda Hacienda PRT SystemPRT System
Dougherty Rd. Route
Village Pkwy Route
San Ramon San Ramon Road RouteRoad Route
Santa Rita Road Route
Hopyard Road RouteHopyard Road Route
Valley Ave. RouteValley Ave. Route
Flexpooling
Workers cooperate to reduce traffic along specific corridors.
HBP workers with long commutes (and empty seats) spend a few minutes to pick up workers with shorter commutes.
20+ cars per hour
Cellular & FasTrak/RFID
Taxis/shuttles too
Background checks, arrival verification, reputation ratings
Some drivers leave I680 early to make pickups.
Promising Results (85 surveys)
• Remove 5,000 autos, in-fill 50 acres– Huge transit village land value increase
• 1.4 PRT trips/day/worker => PRT: profitable
• Apply to 6M workers in major emp. centers– 1.98M cars, 12B VMT, 424M gals, 4MM tons CO2 .
current 2010mode % mode %
bike /ped 4.20 10.34bus 4.08 8.63carpool 5.99 13.57flex pax 0.00 4.37train 10.51 21.28SOV 73.09 41.84
Why is BART ridership low?
• Doesn’t match O/D
• Limited parking at many BART stations
• Auto welcoming policy at job site (vs. downtown SF $20 per day parking)
• Serpentine BART routes
Cellular Solutions
• Marauder’s Map (GPS)– Transit, rideshare connections
• Like NextBus
– Get home safe (Big Sister is watching).
Steve Raney Resume• Cities21 (next generation smart growth) founder
– Palo Alto, CA. Bay Area
• Columbia MBA, RPI Computer Science Masters, Berkeley Transportation Planning Masters
• Project Mgr: BART Group Rapid Transit Study• MS Technology Evangelist, Silicon Valley• GPS / cellular commute trip reduction patents• 6 Transportation Research Board, 2 TRR papers• Habitat for Humanity Training Coordinator.
