Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design Hacienda Paxson

Major Activity Center PRT Circulator Design Hacienda Paxson, Business Park • Steve Raney, James • • • 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. steve_raney@cities 21. org

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 – 24 x 7 • 6 development efforts underway – UK, Sweden, Korea, MN, TX, Dubai. steve_raney@cities 21. org

Comprehensive, Integrated Mobility Door to Door first mile Train Walk Centralized Cars: first mile Bus share, rent, ride home Bike, scooter, Segway Flexpool pick Delivery Short carpool up services, • Improved match. Personal making activities, • Shared parking, • Web/wireless coordination Long carpool nuride first mile • Supportive policy context Business • Scale! PRT shuttle system services LAST MILE mid-day trips steve_raney@cities 21. org

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. steve_raney@cities 21. org

Hacienda Business Park, Pleasanton • 10 MM s. f. ($3 BB) • 19, 000 jobs • Auto-centered • 3, 500 residents • “HBP+” 2015 – 9, 500 residents – 29, 000 jobs – 1 MM s. f. retail steve_raney@cities 21. org

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. steve_raney@cities 21. org

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. steve_raney@cities 21. org

Design: 200 meter walk radius steve_raney@cities 21. org

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). steve_raney@cities 21. org

HBP Single Family Homes steve_raney@cities 21. org

Design: Superblocks, etc • Focus? – Distance to office front door? – Guideway length? – Curves / ride quality / speed? steve_raney@cities 21. org

4 Tranport Hubs • Carsharing • Bus stops SFH crossing • Inexpensive bridge • Homeowner concerns. steve_raney@cities 21. org

3 PRT loops • Semiindependent for higher capacity steve_raney@cities 21. org

“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, Wal. Mart – 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, realestate, 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. steve_raney@cities 21. org

Ridership Guesstimate • Pencil out a biz case – 57 K 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 person – Needs research. steve_raney@cities 21. org

PRT Grocery Shopping? • Hook N Go: steve_raney@cities 21. org

Flexpooling Village Pkwy Route Dougherty Rd. Route 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. San Ramon Road Route Hacienda PRT System 20+ cars per hour Santa Rita Road Route Cellular & Fas. Trak/RFID Taxis/shuttles too Background checks, arrival verification, reputation ratings Some drivers leave I 680 early tosteve_raney@cities 21. org make pickups. Valley Ave. Route Hopyard Road Route

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 6 M workers in major emp. centers – 1. 98 M cars, 12 B VMT, 424 M gals, 4 MM tons CO 2 steve_raney@cities 21. org .

Political Chances for HBP PRT? steve_raney@cities 21. org

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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 steve_raney@cities 21. org

Cellular Solutions • Marauder’s Map (GPS) – Transit, rideshare connections • Like Next. Bus – Get home safe (Big Sister is watching). steve_raney@cities 21. org

Steve Raney Resume • Cities 21 (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. steve_raney@cities 21. org