2014-09-16 Infrastructure & Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                    16 SEPTEMBER 2014


3.    Patronage

The utilisation of the Boreen Point-Tewantin Flexilink service can be demonstrated as the
average number of monthly booked runs (126) compared with the maximum number available in
a 4 week month (144). Based on 9 months of data from November 2013-July 2014, there was an
average 88% utilisation rate of the service.

On average 301 passengers are carried per month at a cost to Council of $17.86 per passenger.
This equates to an average of 82 individuals using the service at an average monthly cost to
Council of $65.63 per individual (or $787.56 per individual annualised). 85% of passengers using
the service were concession card holders.

Table 1 below provides Flexilink passenger data from November 2013 – July 2014.

Table 1: Passenger Data
Month                   Booked Runs          Passengers         Individuals       Total paid        Total cost
                        (one way)            carried            using service     by
                                                                                  passengers

Nov 2013                              132                310                 72         $346.00       $5,580.44

Dec 2013                              128                349                 78         $321.00       $5,539.20

Jan 2014                              144                339                 99         $339.00       $6,055.84

Feb 2014                              120                318                 98         $355.00       $5,017.94

Mar 2014                              134                318                 84         $349.00       $5,481.76

Apr 2014                              133                349                 91         $278.00       $5,642.25

May 2014                              131                305                 77         $354.00       $5,519.86

June 2014                             103                207                 54         $232.00       $4,596.75

July 2014                             111                214                 84         $278.00       $4,938.69

TOTAL                                1136               2709                737       $2,852.00      $48,372.74

Monthly Average                       126                301                 82         $316.89       $5,374.75

Monthly Average                                   $17.86 per
                                                                    $65.63 per
Subsidy                    $42.58 per run         passenger
                                                                     individual
                                                     carried

Annualised                                      $214.32 per        $787.56 per
Average Subsidy                                  passenger           individual

Services were provided free during Free Holiday Buses 6 Dec 2013-5 Jan 2014 and 14-21 April 2014. Loss of revenue
was $112 (Xmas) and $138 (Easter).

Attachment 2: Boreen Point-Tewantin Flexilink Patronage 2005-14, provides a graphical
presentation of the monthly passenger data since the service commenced in 2005. (To date, the
highest number of passengers carried was in March 2010 with 435 passengers).




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