Bus mileage information by purpose; e.g. in service, not in service, charter, rail replacement etc.
Aidan Thornton made this Official Information request to Wellington Regional Council
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From: Aidan Thornton
Dear Wellington Regional Council,
I would like a breakdown of mileage covered by buses operated by GWRC/Metlink and its contractors, specifically with regard to the proportion of kilometres travelled in revenue service vs for other purposes.
Ideally, this would include:
* Approximately 10 years of data, in yearly or monthly increments
* Separated by operator, including bus companies no longer operating GWRC routes.
* Total fleet km travelled
* Fleet km travelled in revenue service
* Fleet km travelled in repositioning for revenue service; e.g. travelling from a base to the start of a route or vice versa, or from the end of one route to the start of another while not in service
* Fleet km travelled for charter service
* Fleet km travelled for rail replacement service
* Fleet km travelled for operational reasons outside the above, such as repositioning between bases, or for overhaul/maintenance.
If the data or subsets is available but in other formats (e.g. separated by individual bus chassis, or on an hourly rather than km basis, I would prefer the original data where practical.
If some of this information is only held by the operators, I would appreciate you requesting it from them.
Yours faithfully,
Aidan Thornton
From: Darrell Young
Wellington Regional Council
Dear Aidan,
Acknowledgement of Request for Information under the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
Thank you for your email dated 28 February 2023, requesting information
regarding bus mileage information by purpose; e.g. in service, not in
service, charter, rail replacement etc.
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Yours sincerely,
Darrell Young
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Luke Troy
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Strategy
Greater Wellington Regional Council
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Kia ora Aidan
We have received an Official Information request from you and would like
to discuss the scope of your request so we can provide a more definite
response.
Are you able to provide us with a phone number or email address so that we
can discuss this with you?
You can reply directly to [1][email address] if you would prefer.
Ngā mihi
Alice Brennan (she/her)
Kairuruku| Policy Coordinator
Metlink
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Subject: Official Information request - Bus mileage information by
purpose; e.g. in service, not in service, charter, rail replacement etc.
Dear Wellington Regional Council,
I would like a breakdown of mileage covered by buses operated by
GWRC/Metlink and its contractors, specifically with regard to the
proportion of kilometres travelled in revenue service vs for other
purposes.
Ideally, this would include:
* Approximately 10 years of data, in yearly or monthly increments
* Separated by operator, including bus companies no longer operating
GWRC routes.
* Total fleet km travelled
* Fleet km travelled in revenue service
* Fleet km travelled in repositioning for revenue service; e.g.
travelling from a base to the start of a route or vice versa, or from
the end of one route to the start of another while not in service
* Fleet km travelled for charter service
* Fleet km travelled for rail replacement service
* Fleet km travelled for operational reasons outside the above, such as
repositioning between bases, or for overhaul/maintenance.
If the data or subsets is available but in other formats (e.g. separated
by individual bus chassis, or on an hourly rather than km basis, I would
prefer the original data where practical.
If some of this information is only held by the operators, I would
appreciate you requesting it from them.
Yours faithfully,
Aidan Thornton
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From: Aidan Thornton
Hi Alice,
Apologies, but FYI strips email addresses to avoid posting them publicly.
I realise that my request is a little broad. Ideally I'm looking to make things easy for you where possible :)
The basis of the request is that I noticed back during the major reshuffle in 2018 a significant increase in buses marked as 'not in service', driving on the motorway and in other locations. Previously I'd almost entirely seen not-in-service buses stationary, or very obviously at the start/end of a route. While this has reduced (I was told at the time it was partly due to new operators not yet having nearby stabling facilities), it's still ongoing.
With the current driver shortages, I'm wondering whether Metlink has investigated not just issues regarding the supply side (employing more drivers), but also whether the existing drivers are being used as effectively as possible - for example, route & timetable design taking into account stabling facilities, and buses being scheduled to go out-of-service near a maintenance facility when due for maintenance, vs paying drivers & using hours to relocated vehicles unnecessarily.
I'm concerned that, due to the present separation of all the different entities involved, detailed design like this is being missed, that may have been more present when the routes and facilities were mostly holdovers from Railways Road Services doing everything
Comparing the hours/km that are being driven by in service buses vs out of service buses, or in service km as a proportion of total odometer km, seemed like an obvious way to track this that Metlink probably already records. A breakdown of driver hours by cost centre could be another way of measuring this, but I suspect Metlink might not have access to that information as it's buried inside the private bus companies.
I hope that helps you?
Yours sincerely,
Aidan Thornton
From: Rebecca Dobbs
Wellington Regional Council
Kia ora Aidan
Please see attached Greater Wellington Regional Council’s response to your
recent OIA 2023-038
Ngâ mihi
Rebecca Dobbs
[1]makaurangi Rebecca Dobbs (she/her)
Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive | Kaiâwhina Matua
ki te Tumu Whakarae
Greater Wellington Te Pane Matua Taiao
0274 333 752
100 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
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