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Thinking Outside the Car Public transit’s role in a balanced transportation system in Northern Virginia Overview Public Transit and Ridesharing resources Transit and HOV performance NVTC’s role in forging better connections between transit systems and other modes How the commonwealth can help NVTC as it works for a better balanced transportation system Public Transit and Ridesharing Resources Interconnected Transit Systems Excellent HOV Facilities I-95/I-395 I-66 VA 267 Route 1 (Alexandria) Transit and HOV Performance Northern Virginia’s FY 2001 Average Weekday Transit Ridership Transit / HOV Mode Shares (by corridor) Measures transit performance where investments have been made. During peak hours, transit carries one-third of all commuters in the I-95/I-395/Route 1 corridor and two-thirds in the I-66 corridor. In no major Northern Virginia commuting corridors, during peak hours, do single occupant vehicles have a higher share than transit and ridesharing. Transit/HOV Time Savings The Texas Transportation Institute reports the travel time indices for the I-66/I-95/I-395 HOV lanes are twice as good as the indices for the parallel conventional lanes. These times savings are important because the average peak hour commuter in our region experiences 84 hours of delay a year (third worst in the nation) at a cost of about $1,600. Northern Virginia Travel Times by Mode I-95 Corridor: Dumfries to Washington, D.C. (30 miles) Transit Fuel Savings Using a conservative methodology, transit uses only half the fuel per passenger-mile traveled, compared to autos. In the Washington metropolitan region, transit saves 47.8 million gallons annually. Transit Air Quality Benefits Transit in the Washington Metropolitan region saves… 3,040 metric tons of volatile organic compounds; 31,892 metric tons of carbon monoxide; 1,533 metric tons of oxides of nitrogen; 520,868 metric tons of carbon dioxide. Putting things into perspective… To put these emission reductions into perspec