Innovative partnerships between public and private sector partners can assist with transportation options funding and forward Oregon’s interests in all modes of transportation, including:
Æ Technology sector: Foster partnerships with developers to create cutting-edge applications that deliver real-time information, multimodal trip planning for web and mobile devices, and ridesharing tools.
Æ Health sector: The health sector, including health care providers and hospitals, has a shared interest in increasing the use of active transportation (biking, walking, and taking transit). As the connection between physical activity and positive health outcomes becomes more apparent, the health sector will play an increasing role in advocating for and funding transportation options programs and investments.
Æ Employers: Employers can provide direct outreach, vanpool or transit pass subsidies, and supportive infrastructure to increase travel options to and from the worksite. Transportation Management Associations and other local transportation options providers work hand-in-hand with employers. Large institutions, such as hospitals, community colleges, and universities, and other large campuses, typically have a dedicated staff person to disseminate transportation options program information to employees and students.
Coordination with this staff person – typically referred to as a Employee Transportation Coordinator – will be important.
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Æ Developers: Developers influence transportation options amenities on site, such as the availability of secure and covered bicycle parking and showers for employees who use active transportation. The development community can also encourage the use of transportation options through design. Design factors include how the building is oriented to the street, where the building is located in terms of proximity to other services, and the availability of sidewalks, bicycle connections, safe access to transit, and preferential parking for carpools or vanpools. Many communities are incentivizing developers through reduced parking requirements or increases in allowable building height or density.
Æ Employer Transportation Coordinators (ETCs), Resident Transportation Coordinators (RTCs), and Case Workers: ETCs, RTCs, and case workers engage directly with users of the transportation system at employment sites and residential buildings. Other community groups that work directly with Limited English Proficiency populations are also key partners. Close partnership between these staff people, local transportation options providers, and other transportation service providers will be important to ensure information and resources are being provided directly to people using the transportation system.
Æ Private vendors: Private vendors, such as vanpool, carshare, and bikeshare vendors, and organizations like the Automobile Association of America play an important role in making sure that transportation options products are continually evolving and marketed to the appropriate audiences.
Æ Freight stakeholders: For freight haulers, highway congestion adds cost to business operations and reduces the ability to reliably deliver goods to markets around the state and nation. Effective transportation options programs and strategies that take auto trips off major freight routes can benefit the bottom line for freight haulers and ensure manufacturers, retailers, grocers, and other businesses have the goods they need to keep the economy moving.
1. This approach is consistent with established state policy in Oregon Transportation Plan Strategy 1.1.4 and Oregon Highway Plan Action 1G.1.
2. Conventional methods for calculating level of service for a road or intersection only address the single-occupancy vehicle. Multimodal level of service extends this methodology to estimate the auto, bus, bicycle, and pedestrian level of service on an urban street.
3. Note: Transportation options projects often refer to programs and services, not infrastructure.
4. Soft infrastructure includes elements such as bike parking and on-site showers at the workplace.
5. By comparison, total budget for the NJDOT Transportation Capital Program is projected at $3.723 billion in FY 2015 (http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/capital/tcp15/pdf/tcp15.pdf).
6. Washington State Commute Reduction Board. (2011) CTR Report to the Washington State Legislature. Retrieved 3/25/14 http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/05054197-8764-4026-A011-C480E686BBF5/81137/CTRBoard_Report_2011Web.pdf
7. U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. Nike – Beaverton, OR. http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/mitig_traf_cong/nike_case.htm
8. McCormack, Gavin. “Driving towards obesity: A systematized literature review on the association between motor vehicle travel time and distance and weight status in adults.” Preventive Medicine, Vol. 66, September 2014, pages 49-55.
9. A transportation options staff person is defined as a staff person who promotes the use of transportation options and provides transportation options information and education to the community. Staff may be located in local or regional governments (city, council of governments, or metropolitan planning organizations), transit agencies, or non-profit organizations.
10. Vehicle miles traveled is an effective indicator of a host of important transportation options outcomes, including system efficiency, household transportation cost, and vehicle source emissions.
11. It has been noted that members of the Transportation Options Plan Policy Advisory Committee desire to track the percent of trips that use a mode other than driving alone for all types of trips (not just those during the peak hour). The Implementation Phase of the Plan will explore this concept further.
12. More information on the design and development of the GreenSTEP model can be found here: http://
www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP/GreenStep/GreenSTEP%20Model%20Overview.pdf 13. More information on the Statewide Transportation Strategy can be found
here: http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/OSTI/pages/sts.aspx
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