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Local Transit Facts
2015 Service Performance
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In Blockbuster, this keyboard key, reveals a popup screen allowing the user to select among all the various available signups, garage divisions, service days, and saved recent runcut scenarios.
What is 'F3'?
100
Many key inputs used for the broader run-cutting process at RTD are defined in this labor document.
What is the Collective Bargaining Agreement?
100
One of three key tabs in FX, this important tab is associated with the inputs of geography, patterns, stop patterns, and distances of a bus route.
What is the Route Definition tab?
100
The Colorado General Assembly established the special RTD district to develop, operate, and maintain a mass transportation system for the Denver-Boulder Metropolitan area in this year.
What is 1969?
100
At a blazing 5.3 boardings per hour, this suburban local fixed-route was the lowest performing RTD fixed-route in terms of boardings per hour in 2015. It will be put out of its misery in January.
What is the '116Ltd'?
200
In Blockbuster, after navigating to the correct schedule sign-up, this is always the first step.
What is 'Update Reliefs'?
200
In the main Blockbuster workspace, the picture on this commonly-used-tab, operates the key iterative task of the software and puts operator runs together from ‘quick-quick’ thru ‘Serious-Serious’ fashion.
What is the scissors?
200
This important sub-tab, is where running time-bands get defined and the travel times between nodes can be typed in or replicated.
What is the Run Times tab?
200
According to the most recent Downtown Denver Survey, and within 5 percentage points, this is the general mode-split, for transit, of Downtown Denver workers.
What is 40.6%? (but accept 35.6% to 45.6%)
200
This LRT line in 2015 had 6,706,923 total boardings, the highest of any RTD rail line.
What is the D-Line?
300
Among the 3 main tabs at the bottom of the main Blockbuster screen, this commonly used tab is a version of its adjacent tab, and allows the user to define hundreds of specifically-defined group, situation, and other key variables for use in creating all operator runs.
What is the 'Parameters by Situation' Tab?
300
There are approximately 45,000 weekday records of Travels, each operating between nodes starting with this special digit, at which operators make reliefs.
What is the '9' digit (also 9000 series)?
300
These ‘locations’ go by a unique four-digit code, and ‘live’ on top of ‘stops’. Running times are built between these key points
What are 'Nodes'?
300
This south suburban city includes the most common home zip code of all downtown Denver workers.
What is Littleton? (80120)
300
In 2015, this urban local ‘Broadway’ bus route had 44 boardings per hour, about 1.5X more/hour than a CBD local on a different Broadway.
What is the SKIP?
400
In the main Blockbuster workspace, the picture on the tab of this common-closet item is used to ‘UNcut’ runs that have already been put together.
What is the 'coat-hanger'?
400
In Blockbuster, under the ‘Parameters by Situation’ tab; setting the ‘occurrence lower limit’ to 8hours along with a penalty - and - ‘occurrence upper limit’ to 8hours along with a bonus – is part of a set of parameters to create longer runs that go by this strange name.
What is 'Fat-Cats'?
400
The calculated data from this FX sub-tab is used when passengers use ‘mystops’.
What is 'Stop Trips' tab?
400
‘This’ is 11 miles, 8 stations, 7 new Park N Rides, and always opening ‘soon’.
What is the 'G-Line'?
400
This CBD local route in 2015 had 3,913,287 total boardings, the highest number of overall boardings of any RTD bus route – and more than 2.5X the ridership of the C-Line.
What is the 15Ltd?
500
In the main Blockbuster workspace, when using the scissors icon for the first time, or when having uncut pieces of work that you wish to include, this radio-button needs to be clicked to ensure you are not just re-cutting the existing runs.
What is 'Add Uncut Runs'?
500
In Blockbuster, under the ‘Parameters by Situation’ tab, the basic ‘platform minimum time’ and ‘platform maximum time’ for straights and splits should be set to these two absolute CBA values.
What is 7 hours and 10 hours?
500
In order to prevent an unintended automatic deadhead footnote from appearing in a TIES headway or traincard, it is sometimes necessary to hand-edit this trace to less than this distance.
What is 'less than approx 150'? (or less than approx 0.03 miles)
500
This second-largest public transit system in Colorado opened a BRT line in 2014 and had nearly 5 million annual boardings. It is also the largest rural public transit agency in the US.
What is 'RFTA'? (Roaring Fork Transportation Authority)
500
In 2015, the average subsidy per boarding of this well-used RTD service was only 0.91 cents per boarding, included 210.6 boardings per hour, and was the most productive of all RTD service classes.
What is the MALL shuttle?
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