HI Superferry: Actual? Superferry Passenger and Vehicle counts

HI Superferry: Actual? Superferry Passenger and Vehicle counts

Here is a link to the pdf document that Larry Geller has provided:
http://disappearednews.com/docs/20080131132623.pdf

Larry has a good report on this at:
http://disappearednews.com/2008/02/ferry-monday-maybe-we-wonder-about.html
be sure to read the comments to that.

I finally got a chance to look at this. Exhibits B and C are very interesting here. Others have noticed what appears to be anomalous data in Exhibit B. These are only bookings or reservations it looks like. Still, you can see from these numbers that ridership has declined throughout January and dropped off dramatically since Jan. 27th. The data are almost all below levels necessary to cover fuel expenses alone. All the data in Exhibit B would look good in a graph for the whole month of January. Dick Mayer is going to create a line graph out of this data. We will look for that soon.

From: Dick Mayer
Subject: ?Actual? Superferry Passenger and Vehicle counts
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:41:33 -1000

Attached in PDF format is HDOT's Report to Judge August.

Check out Exhibit "B" containing HSF's numbers for the month of January.

There are 3 columns but there is confusion.

#1 Number of Bookings This probably means that I booked my family of 3. This would be one booking. It is unclear if round-trips are one or two bookings.
#2 Daily log of the Number of Passengers
#3 Daily log of the Number of Vehicles
Both #1 + #2 are probably misleading because they show figures for days that the SF did not operate.
Some of the high passenger counts may be due to passengers who were already counted on days that the SF did not operate and are now taking the SF.
Thus folks may have been counted twice.

Exhibit "C" at the end are some monthly figures for December.
End of Dick's comments.

Aloha, Brad