International School of Lausanne - School bus service optimization

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1 International School of Lausanne - School bus service optimization Traffic Committee meeting Le Mont-sur-Lausanne,

2 ! Contents! 0. Introduction: context and aims of the study! 1. Diagnosis of the situation! 1.1 Supply analysis! 1.2 Demand analysis! 1.3 Cost analysis! 2. Generation and evaluation of scenarios of school bus service management 2

3 0. Introduction: context and aims of the study 3

4 ! 0.1 General context! ISL located in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne since 2005! Today, around 600 students and 110 staff members! Tomorrow, after ISL planned extension, around 800 students and 150 staff members! Today, serious traffic problems caused by parents dropping-off and picking-up their kids by car! Reduction of traffic problems = necessary condition for ISL development projects! An effective traffic and mobility management concept is needed. It must be based on:! planning and organizing measures of the road network and of the drop-off/pick-up area! a School Travel Plan, regrouping a set of information, communication and trip management measures to be implemented by ISL in order to change staff and students behaviours, and reduce traffic demand 4

5 ! 0.2 Context of the study (1)! ISL has implemented a School bus service, consisting of six bus lines! The diagnosis of the School Travel Plan has shown only a minority of students (25% in 2009) are school bus users...!...but the potential of users is far higher!! Reasons for the low percentage of bus users must be understood and measures capable of increasing the number of school bus users must be proposed 5

6 ! 0.2 Context of the study (2) SCHOOL TRAVEL PLAN STUDY ISL School Travel Plan SCHOOL BUS Public transport Carpooling Bicycle and walking Parking management Other strategies and measures Texte SCHOOL BUS OPTIMIZATION STUDY School bus service: an essential axis of the School Travel Plan, requiring a specific optimization study 6

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8 1. Diagnosis of the situation 8

9 1.1 Supply analysis 9

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11 ! School bus prices (1) School bus prices - bus 1-3 Bus 1 - Forel - ISL Stop F - Forel Stop E - St- Savigny Stop D - Vers- chez-les- Blanc Stop C - Epalinges Stop B - Lausanne Vennes Price for one way trip Price for round trip Bus 2 - Blonay - ISL Stop F - Blonay Stop E - St- Légier Stop D - La Tour-de-Peilz Stop C - Vevey Marché Stop B - Vevey Funicular Price for one way trip Price for round trip Bus 3 - Grandvaux - ISL Stop G - Grandvaux Stop F - Lutry Jordillon Stop E - La Croix-sur- Lutry Stop D - Lutry Crêt de Pierre Stop C - Belmont Stop B - Pully Val-Vert Price for one way trip Price for round trip

12 ! School bus prices (2) School bus prices - bus 4-6 Bus 4 - Lutry - ISL Stop F - Lutry Stop E - Paudex Stop D - Pully Clergère Stop C - Pully Gare/Préau Stop B - Pully C.-F. Ramuz Price for one way trip Price for round trip Bus 5 - Morges - ISL Stop C - Morges Stop B - Bussigny Price for one way trip Price for round trip Bus 6 - St-Sulpice - ISL Stop G - St- Sulpice Bochet Stop F - St- Sulpice Champagne Stop E - Lausanne Figuiers Stop D - Lausanne Dapples Stop C - Lausanne Closelet Stop B - Lausanne Georgette Price for one way trip Price for round trip

13 ! School bus prices - comparison with public transport Examples of costs for a selection of origins Origin Lutry Pully south Number of Mobilis zones 2 2 Morges 4 Vevey 6 Type of transport Price for one way trip (CHF) * Price for round trip (CHF) * Price for 1 year (round trips, daily use, CHF) ** TL 9 + TL School bus - bus '025.- TL 8 + TL School bus - bus '025.- Train + M2 + TL School bus - bus '600.- Train + M2 + TL '080.- School bus - bus '600.-! Cost difference between public transport and school buses: Swiss Francs per year!! On a yearly basis, school buses are 5 to 10 times more expensive than public transport! * For public transport = cost of a reduced price 2nd class ticket ** For public transport = cost of a yearly junior season ticket For school bus = cost for 175 round trips 13

14 1.2 Demand analysis 14

15 ! Population of students at ISL! 613 students at ISL in ! 12% of students too young to take the school bus (minimum age = 6 years old) Age of students at ISL, school year % 61% 27% Under 6 years old 6 to 10 years old Over 10 years old 15

16 ! Share of school bus users Share of users of the school bus service, school year Everyday (morning and afternoon) Occasionally Never 15% (94 students) 6% (35 students) 79% (483 students)! 21% of ISL students using the school bus service! 15% of ISL students using the service everyday, morning and afternoon 16

17 ! Occasional users of the school bus service Occasional users of the school bus service, by frequency of use, school year % (2) 1-2 trips per week 3-5 trips per week 31% (11) 6-7 trips per week 8-9 trips per week 52% (18) 11% (4)! A large number of occasional users travel by school bus most of the time (> 6 trips/week) or on a very frequent basis 17

18 ! School bus users: who s paying for the service? (1) Share of school bus users parents paying for the school bus service, school year Paying the bus 15% Not paying the bus (paid by parents company) 85%! For a large majority of school bus users (85%), service is paid by private companies employing the parents! Only a small minority of parents directly pay for the school bus service 18

19 ! School bus users: who s paying for the service? (2) Percentage of school bus users whose use of the school bus is paid by the parents employer, by school bus line, in% 100% 90% 100% 92% 100% 80% 79% 80% 70% 66% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Forel Vevey Grandvaux Paudex- Lutry Morges St-Sulpice- Lausanne 19

20 ! Age of school bus users Comparison of ISL students and school bus users, by age, school year % 15% 14% 12% 12% 12% 10% 8% 10% 12% 11% 10% 7.9% 8.0% 7.7% 8.5% 7.0% 9.0% school bus users all students 6% 5.4% 5.7% 5.4% 6.9% 6.5% 5.9% 6.1% 6.2% 5% 4% 3.8% 4% 3% 3% 2% 2% 0% 3-4 years old 4-5 years old 5-6 years old 6-7 years old 7-8 years old 8-9 years old 9-10 years old years old years old years old years old years old years old years old years old 20

21 ! School bus users per line School bus users per school bus line, school year % (11) 7% (9) 9% (11) line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 5 line 6 28% (37) 24% (31) 23% (29)! Lines 2, 3 and 4 are the most used (75% of school bus users alltogether) 21

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23 ! School bus demand analysis zones 20 students 15 students 73 students 49 students 30 students 46 students 117 students 22 students 92 students 93 students 50 students 23

24 ! School bus catchment rate according to analysis zone Area School bus users School bus non-users Total School bus catchment rate (%) Epalinges Forel Vevey Lutry Nord - Grandvaux Pully - Lutry Sud Lausanne - St-Sulpice Morges Le Mont-sur-Lausanne Jouxtens-Mézery Gros-de-Vaud Total ! Catchment rate extremely high in the Vevey/Blonay area...!...but extremely low in Epalinges (2%)!! Low catchment rate in Lausanne, but school bus complementary to public transport 24

25 ! Students modal split for trips to and from ISL Students modal split (% of users of each means of transport) 3% 3% 20% 5% 59% Dropped-off by car Carpooling Public transportation School bus Walking Bicycle or other 10% Source: ISL Transportation Survey 2010! Nearly 70% of students travel to school by car (carpooling = 10%)! The share of public transport users is vers low (5%), except in Lausanne (25%), Ecublens (30%) and Pully/ Lutry south (15%) 25

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27 ! Reasons for not taking school buses Reasons given by parents for not using the school bus service, in % No bus line coming by your place 16 No bus stop close to your place 16 Too expensive 34 Not flexible enough 17 You like to come to school and chat to other parents 11 Your child(ren) has ASA(s) 26 Your child(ren) do(es) not want to 5 Other 27 Source: ISL Transportation Survey ! High price of school bus service = most given reason (34% of parents not using the service) 27

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29 ! Users and non-users of the school bus service: general view 29

30 ! Users and non users analysis zones 30

31 ! Bus 1 Forel - ISL : location of users and non-users in the catchment area 11 users Epalinges badly-served by bus 1, which stays on route de Berne and doesn t stop in the main residential neighbourhoods and in the town centre. 31

32 ! Bus 2 Blonay - ISL : location of users and non-users in the catchment area 37 users An impressive share of school bus users, but a long trip for students from Blonay/St-Légier. 32

33 ! Bus 3 Grandvaux - ISL : location of users and non-users in the catchment area 29 users A stop missing in Chailly (Lausanne) 33

34 ! Bus 4 Lutry - ISL : location of users and non-users in the catchment area 31 users Coverage could be improved in La Conversion 34

35 ! Bus 5 Morges - ISL : location of users and non-users in the catchment area Coverage would be improved if Lonay and Echandens were served 11 users 35

36 ! Bus 6 St-Sulpice - ISL : location of users and non-users in the catchment area 9 users General good coverage 36

37 ! Le Mont-sur-Lausanne : location of students 40 students - No school bus service today, but 76 students living in Le Mont (40 more than 1km from ISL) - A school bus service is severely needed! 16 students 20 students 37

38 1.3 Cost analysis 38

39 !Cost of the bus service for ISL! Cost of the bus service, school year (incl. internal administrative costs): Swiss francs 39

40 !Cost and income of the bus service Costs and income of the bus service, school year (incl. VTA and 5% administrative costs 5%) Bus line Cost Income Margin Bus 1 129'310 76'734-52'576 Bus 2 112' '518 53'862 Bus 3 104'819 83'541-21'278 Bus 4 118' '305 56'771 Bus 5 73'993 80'562 6'569 Bus 6 20'097 10'440-9'657 Bus ' '240 Total 569' '100 23'450! A positive balance: Swiss francs! Some lines with a negative balance, sometimes heavily subsidized (e.g. line 1) by lines with a positive balance (e.g. lines 2 and 4) 40

41 !Cost of the bus service by ISL student! Cost by ISL student (600 students): Swiss francs! Cost by ISL student (900 students, same number of school bus lines): Swiss francs 41

42 2. Generation and evaluation of scenarios of school bus service management 42

43 !4 Scenarios analysed Minimum age 6 y.o. Minimum age 4 y.o. Service paid by users A C Service paid through school fees B D! Bus coverage and communication optimized in all scenarios (new line in Le Mont, better service in Epalinges, etc.)! Scenario A: only students living in a bus catchment area and whose parents work for a company usually paying for the bus service are included in the potentials (except < 6 y.o. and brother/sister of < 6 y.o.)! Scenario B: all students living in a bus catchment area are included in the potentials (except < 6 y.o. and brother/sister of < 6 y.o.) 43

44 !Simulation of the potential impacts of the scenarios Potential impacts of scenarios on the NUMBER OF BUS USERS Number of students Current behaviours Number of bus users Scenario A Potential number of bus users Scenario B Potential number of bus users Scenario C Potential number of bus users Scenario D Potential number of bus users Potential impacts of scenarios on the NUMBER OF CAR MOVEMENTS Current behaviours Scenario A Scenario B Scenario C Scenario D Number of students Number of car movements (morning peak hour) Potential number of car movement s (morning peak hour) Potential number of car movement s (morning peak hour) Potential number of car movement s (morning peak hour) Potential number of car movement s (morning peak hour)

45 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Space required to transport the same amount of people by car, bus or bicycle 45