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CAPE CORAL AND NORTH FORT MYERS



  The map above shows which points we used to do our analysis.  Below is a schedule comparison of how long it takes to get from each of these points to all the others, along with the number of trips and the headways of each trip.


   The Pulse Plan has a different strategy for improving operational efficiency -- instead of focusing exclusively on multiplying trips and decreasing headway, as LeeTran has done, it rather seeks to maximize meet points and connectivity within the transit system.  On the whole headways were tightened up to 125% from the present, or putting it in another way, where a route once had a headway of an hour, it now had an average of 47 minutes!  The same was the result in trip duration -- where it took (and now takes) LeeTran one hour to arrive at a destination, the Pulse Plan takes only 45 minutes.  And the number of trips was also increased to 187% with five times the number of options to arrive at a destination by an alternate route. 


 In a few cases we were able to save over an hour -- going one way -- from one point to another!  (For example, VA Hospital to Cape Coral Hospital, VA Hospital to the SW Cape Coral Library and SW Florida International Airport to Sunsplash Park in Cape Coral.) 
 
For illustrative purposes where the word "graph" appears in the table above (in the most right-hand column,) those graphs are located below.  These graphs were created to find out why the numbers seemed a bit out-of-the-ordinary from other comparisons! 






  The graphs above offer clarity as to what the numbers actually mean from the Schedule Analysis.

  The following links are the actual analysis of the old and new LeeTran schedules, in comparison and contrast with the Pulse Plan schedules (right-click and open in new tab:)

Sunsplash to Cape Hospital
Sunsplash to Cape Tech
Sunsplash to Orange Grove and Hancock  
Sunsplash to Riverdale
Sunsplash to SW Cape Library
Sunsplash to Tucker-Ebson
Sunsplash to VA Hospital

SW Cape Library to Airport  
SW Cape Library to Cape Hospital
SW Cape Library to Cape Tech
SW Cape Library to Orange Grove and Hancock  
SW Cape Library to Riverdale
SW Cape Library to Sunsplash
SW Cape Library to Tucker-Ebson 
SW Cape Library to VA Hospital




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