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Ordinances requiring employers and business complexes to reduce the number of commute trips arriving at the employment site by implementing transportation demand management (TDM) measures have been enacted in more and more cities in the last few years. Local trip-reduction ordinances are now a requirement in California to comply with the legislatively mandated Congestion Management Program. Although employers are required to comply with various ordinances, there may be little guidance provided to them other than a listing of possible strategies. This paper reports on a project performed for the City of Pleasanton, California, to develop a methodology to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of employer-based TDM measures in suburban settings. Pleasanton was the first city in the United States to adopt a comprehensive TDM ordinance, in October 1984, and has served as a model for many other communities throughout the nation. The methodology developed in this study was applied in a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet-based model so that it is readily accessible to employers and staff at local agencies who may be inexperienced with using computers. Site-specific information for a given work site may be entered into the model, and the relative cost-effectiveness of up to 18 TDM measures may be evaluated. This is an extremely useful fool for employers to evaluate the potential cost-effectiveness of TDM measures. To demonstrate the use of the TDM Cost-Effectiveness Model, the model was tested for characteristics that represented a variety of suburban employers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1404, Transportation System Management, Parking, and Travel Demand Management. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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Case studies; Cost effectiveness; Employer sponsored transportation; Ordinances; Simulation; Suburbs; Traffic congestion; Travel demand management

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California; Pleasanton (California); San Francisco Bay Area

Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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