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Title: REDUCING DRIVE-ALONE RATES AT SMALL EMPLOYER SITES: COSTS AND BENEFITS OF LOCAL TRIP REDUCTION ORDINANCES--PASADENA TOWERS CASE STUDY
Accession Number: 00667632
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: In July 1986 the city of Pasadena, California, adopted a trip reduction ordinance (TRO) that recognized that any new development in the city would generate travel and parking demands that could harm traffic flow and parking in surrounding areas. The experience of one Pasadena developer is evaluated; this developer, in compliance with the TRO, was faced with designing, implementing, and operating a building-based transportation demand management (TDM) program. Vehicle trip data generated by workers at Pasadena Towers are compared with vehicle trip data generated by workers at a neighboring control site. The costs and non-trip-related benefits of the Towers' building-based TDM program are also discussed. The ratio of employees arriving at the work site to the number of vehicles (average vehicle ridership, or AVR) was found to be the same for the control site as it was for Pasadena Towers. This was contrary to expectations and indicates that the transportation program offered by Pasadena Towers did not appear to reduce vehicle trips beyond a base level existing at a similar building with no TDM program. In terms of AVR alone, therefore, the trip reduction program did not appear to be effective. Attitudinal survey results, however, report that 51% of Pasadena Towers' employees who rideshare were encouraged to do so by the TDM program. The percentage of employees who use alternative modes to travel to work at Pasadena Towers is also higher than at the control site, suggesting that the program is encouraging workers to rideshare but that the modes they are using do not have as great an impact on AVR as those used by workers at the control site.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1433, Public Transportation: Bus, Rail, Ridesharing, Paratransit Services, and Transit Security. 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
Monograph Title: Public transportation: bus, rail, ridesharing, paratransit services, and transit security Monograph Accession #: 01401241
Language: English
Authors: Stewart, JacquelinePagination: p. 159-163
Publication Date: 1994
Serial: ISBN: 0309055105
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 7 1994 12:00AM
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