October 2013 patronage
The Auckland Transport board meets again on Thursday and as such we now have the patronage results for October. Even better is there seems to be good news all around with all modes improving compared to October last year. Further there were the same number of working days making for an easier comparison – although on the rail network there were two full weekend shut-downs compared to one partial one in October 2012.…
47 Comments September 2013 Patronage
Patronage results for September are out and the news is mixed with rail doing much better and starting to achieve strong growth once again while on the other side of the coin, the bus network (which carries the most people) appears to be flailing around a bit.…
August 2013 Patronage and Business Report
Auckland Transport has released the patronage figures for August and the great news is that positive signs of patronage growth are continuing. Compared to August 2012 there was one less business day in August which generally accounts for a roughly 4% difference in patronage and on top of that there were less special events and more rail network shutdowns.…
Auckland Transport Statement of Intent 2013
Every year Auckland Transport sets a new Statement of Intent (SOI) which sets out their strategic approach, priorities and targets for the following three years. Yesterday they released their SOI for 2013-2016. To me the most interesting parts tend to be the targets that get set after taking into account what has happened in the previous year.…
July 2013 patronage
Auckland Transport has released the patronage figures for July and there are some signs emerging that we are starting to exit the slump that has occurred over the last year or so. There was an extra working day in July 2013 compared to 2012 which is estimated to impact results by ~4% however even taking that into account there was growth on the trains, Northern Express and ferries.…
2013 Transport Monitoring Results
Buried deep within the agenda of last week’s Transport Committee meeting is a report on the results of both the annual screenline and congestion surveys. The screenline survey in particular is a very long running (back to the 1980s) survey which counts the number of people crossing various points – most particularly those travelling into the city centre by various modes.…
Guest Post: Rail Patronage Targets
This is a Guest Post by reader Luke Christensen
There has been much concern regarding stalling rail patronage recently. This was a substantial topic of discussion at both the Auckland Council Transport Committee meeting and the CCO Strategy Review Committee last Wednesday.…
June 2013 Patronage
The June PT patronage results have been published on Auckland Transport’s website – with the headline results being a bit of a mixed bag.
Auckland public transport patronage totalled 69,074,940 passengers for the 12-months to Jun-2013 a decrease of -0.1% on the 12-months to May-2013 and -2.8% compared to the previous 12-months to June-2012.…
Can we meet the targets to start the CRL early?
As I’m sure you can imagine with the transport announcement yesterday we will have heaps to talk about over the coming weeks. It is going to take us some time to fully go through everything so please bear with us as we do that however if there is a particular topic you would like to see on the blog please feel free to provide a guest post.…
May 2013 PT Patronage
The Board Reports ahead of tomorrow’s Auckland Transport board meeting are online, although the normal statistics report seems to not yet have been updated. Helpfully (although in a strangely semi-duplicative way) there’s another report that looks at patronage. Total patronage for May was slightly down on May last year, while rail patronage bucked its downward trend in recent months and actually jumped by almost 10% on the same month last year:
As you can see from the graph above, while rail patronage was up on May last year, it was still significantly below the monthly target that Auckland Transport expected to see happen this year – contributing to the fairly giant gap between actual patronage totals this year and what was in Auckland Transport’s Statement of Intent.…
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