2019-06-11 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   11 JUNE 2019




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                               11 JUNE 2019

              Operational effectiveness:
             The highest patronage bus routes 626 and 627 are scheduled at a 15 minute frequency
              between Sunshine or Sunrise Beach and Tewantin. The other routes, 628 ,629 operate on a
              less frequent schedule and returned a lower total patronage with the 632 only operating 3-4
              return services per day.
              Sunbus drivers underwent Tourism Noosa’s “Welcome to Noosa” training and wore tropical
              shirts. Feedback from both passengers and Sunbus was that wearing the shirts created a fun
              holiday atmosphere.
              Data obtained:
              Over the six week Christmas period there were a total of 203,837 passenger trips and over
             the three week Easter period there were a total of 89,796 passenger trips.
              Refer to Table 1 for total trips per bus route.
             Table 1: Total passenger trips by Bus Route 15 Dec 18 - 28 Jan 2019 and 6 - 28 Apr 2019
               Bus Route                Total trips - | Total trips - | Total   % of Total
                                        Christmas _ | Easter
               626    —  Tewantin   to       76,450        34,708     111,158            38%
               Sunrise Beach via Noosa
               Heads     (24    return
               services)
               627   —-  Tewantin   to       70,172        28,780      98,952            34%
               Sunshine   Beach    via
               Noosa Heads (23 return
               services)
               628 — Noosa Parklands         16,709         7,982      24,691              8%
               to Noosa Junction, via
               Noosa Civic (12 return
               services)
               629 — Tewantin to Noosa       21,266         8,857      30,123             10%
               Junction via Noosa Civic
               (11 return services)
               064 — Peregian Beach to       15,087         7,720      22,807              8%
               Noosa Heads temporary
               bus (11 return services)
               632 - Noosa to Cooran          4,153          1,749      5,902              2%
               via Cooroy and Pomona
               (3 return services)

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