Go card data

[ozbob]

http://translink.com.au/about-translink/reporting-and-publications/patronage-and-customer-satisfaction



Bit of a bump in fixed fares December ... less regular go card users around ...

[ozbob]

Average for fixed fares is 2.23% for above period, which means on average a fixed fare occurs 1 in 45 times a go card used.

What would be interesting would be the number of times a go card is touched on but not touched off at all ... these would not register as fixed fares as such, as cycle not completed.

[ozbob]

Average fixed fare adjustment is 17.9 per 10000 trips which equals = 0.179%

so only [2.23/0.179] 1 in 12 fixed fares adjusted .. 

[ozbob]

Total go card trips for the 6 months 89,163,848

Average per month 14,860,641 trips

Average per week   3,429,379 trips

[ozbob]

Fixed fares occurred one for every 37 trips in December 2012, compared to the average for the six month period of one for every 45 trips.

[somebody]

Patronage for the 13 weeks to 30 Dec 2012 = 42.22 million
Patronage for the 3 months to 31 Dec 2011 = 43.31 million
Patronage for the 3 months to 31 Dec 2010 = 45.01 million

7.2% decline over 2 years
2.5% decline in 1 year

[ozbob]

Patronage for the 13 weeks to 30 Dec 2012 = 42.22 million
Patronage for the 3 months to 31 Dec 2011 = 43.31 million
Patronage for the 3 months to 31 Dec 2010 = 45.01 million

7.2% decline over 2 years
2.5% decline in 1 year

More disturbing evidence of the 'affordability death spiral' ...  and even in the context of more service kilometres,  very serious situation that they refuse to acknowledge and act.

[ozbob]

Average fixed fare adjustment is 17.9 per 10000 trips which equals = 0.179%

so only [2.23/0.179] 1 in 12 fixed fares adjusted ..

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[Golliwog]

Average fixed fare adjustment is 17.9 per 10000 trips which equals = 0.179%

so only [2.23/0.179] 1 in 12 fixed fares adjusted ..

1 in 12 is the best it could be from those, as not all fare adjustments are for fixed fares. I've had them for having the system calculate my fare incorrectly.

[ozbob]

The number of those would be miniscule Golli ...

[ozbob]

Train patronage has also declined in the past four years in the sunshine state.

In the 2008-09 financial year, 60.9 million trips were taken on the network. That dropped to 57.6 million in 2009-10 (down 5.4%), and 2010-11 saw a further drop to 55m trips (down 4.5%).

In 2011-12 the number of trips taken dropped again, down 4% to just 52.8 million, which is around 10 million fewer trips than travelled on the Perth rail network over the same timespan, despite the fact that Queensland's public transport patronage of 178 million is significantly higher than Perth's patronage.

http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=9624.msg121092#msg121092

[ozbob]

... Mr Emerson said he believed people would be shocked to learn that although bus funding had increased by 22 per cent over the past three years, patronage had improved just 0.5 per cent ...

http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=9045.msg121129#msg121129

[somebody]

I think it's fairly safe to say that the 9 then free + 7.5% increase policy has already failed.  Although we'll have better data when the full March quarter is posted.  I guess Easter Friday is in that and we've lost Feb29.

[somebody]

I think it's fairly safe to say that the 9 then free + 7.5% increase policy has already failed.  Although we'll have better data when the full March quarter is posted.  I guess Easter Friday is in that and we've lost Feb29.

The 9 then free was mostly wiped out by the 7.5% rise. Had they simply done nothing, ie no rise and no discount, it was still going be negative based on recent historical rises.

Not sure how you figure that it still would have been negative.  People's main complaint is that the price is too expensive.  Putting up the price of the first journey seems an obvious deterrent, even if in some cases the total works out the same.

Traffic congestion would be increasing in some quarters and that makes the train more attractive while keeping fares constant is a drop in fares in real terms.

This really is an awful result - less fare revenue and less trips!  I can't emphasise that enough.

Kenent increased fares back in early 90's in Vic and got growth during a recession because he improved services at the same time. QR has not achieved the same improvement although probably starting on a much higher base and hence limited opportunity.

Perhaps so, but 2012 in Qld was already a high fare to begin with.  Elasticity isn't constant, but changes with price.