The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has selected 22 projects that will improve the efficiency of state’s highway system.
These projects were selected as part of the Trip Reduction Performance Program authorized by the state legislature in 2003. WSDOT will pay the contractors for their success in improving the transportation system by helping employees get to work while using fewer vehicles. WSDOT will pay these contractors up to $1.5 million as a part of the 2007-2009 Trip Reduction Performance Program. Together, these projects propose to remove 4,271 daily commute vehicle trips from our state highway system. Contractors will provide services and incentives that get people out of their cars and onto buses, trains, vanpools, and other commute alternatives.
A 12-member review and selection committee recommended to WSDOT which projects should be funded. The committee was comprised of individuals representing transit agencies, regional transportation planning councils, city and county representatives, employers, a citizen representative, Commute Trip Reduction Board members and WSDOT staff. The committee reviewed and scored projects proposals in accordance with the established TRPP criteria.
| No. |
Location |
Project |
Project
Cost |
Number
of
Trips |
Cost
per Trip |
Duration
in Year |
| 1 |
Statewide |
Statewide GooseNetworks - Real Time Ridesharing with Goose |
$111,090 |
322 |
$345 |
2 |
| 2 |
Spokane |
Spokane County - Partners for Smart Trips |
$210,000 |
500 |
$420 |
2 |
| 3 |
Spokane |
Spokane Teachers Credit Union - It's a Hoot To Commute |
$11,000 |
25 |
$440 |
1 |
| 4 |
Spokane |
Eastern Washington University - CTR Supersized |
$24,928 |
82 |
$304 |
2 |
| 5 |
Clark |
City of Vancouver - Southbound Solution |
$180,000 |
450 |
$400 |
2 |
| 6 |
Spokane |
Zak Design - Using a Commute Alternative is Zaktacular |
$5,810 |
14 |
$415 |
2 |
| 7 |
Pierce |
City of Tacoma - Neighborhood Commute Alternatives |
$22,500 |
75 |
$300 |
2 |
| 8 |
King |
Seattle Central Community College - Telework |
$10,000 |
25 |
$400 |
2 |
| 9 |
Whatcom |
WWU Campus Commuter Challenge |
$49,050 |
150 |
$327 |
2 |
| 10 |
Clark |
City of Vancouver - Smart Commuter Campaign |
$60,000 |
160 |
$375 |
2 |
| 11 |
Clark |
Clark County - CASH |
$12,000 |
40 |
$300 |
2 |
| 12 |
King |
David Evans and Associates, Inc. - Dare to Share |
$9,100 |
26 |
$350 |
2 |
| 13 |
Spokane |
WSU/EWU - The Riverpoint Bicycle Quad |
$13,500 |
45 |
$300 |
2 |
| 14 |
King |
Renton Bicycle Incentive and Rack Development (R-Bird) |
$11,000 |
40 |
$275 |
2 |
| 15 |
Clark |
Kaiser Permanante NW |
$12,000 |
40 |
$300 |
2 |
| 16 |
King |
Seattle Central Community College - Time to Switch |
$28,000 |
70 |
$400 |
2 |
| 17 |
King |
City of Redmond - Going for Green |
$249,900 |
714 |
$350 |
2 |
| 18 |
King |
Duwamish TMA - Easy Rewards |
$176,000 |
400 |
$440 |
2 |
| 19 |
Kitsap |
Kitsap county health District - It Pays to Carpool |
$2,850 |
10 |
$285 |
2 |
| 20 |
Statewide |
Attorney General's Office - In the Mode |
$6,000 |
40 |
$150 |
2 |
| 21 |
Statewide |
King County Metro - Pay As You Drive |
$145,800 |
600 |
$243 |
2 |
| 22 |
King |
Fred Hutchinson - Round, Round Get Around |
$146,250 |
375 |
$390 |
2 |
| |
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|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Total |
$1,496,778 |
4,203 |
$356
(avg cost/trip) |
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has a strong CTR program in place, and participation is becoming stagnant. The AGO will conduct an annual drawing for a desktop computer system or bicycle and accessories for the loyal commute trip reduction participant who maintains a sixty percent alternative commuting percentage for the year. This project proposes 40 commute trips.
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The project provides and encourages commuters to carpool by providing its dynamic ridematching service to Washington state employees in targeted “neighborhood pairs” in cooperation with employers’ employee transportation coordinators, RideShareOnline.com, transportation management associations, community groups, etc. The service, called GOOSE, can help commuters find rides at the last minute on vanpools with empty seats due to vacations, no-shows, etc. GOOSE has already been developed and tested and is currently accessible via mobile phones from all major carriers and on the web at readysetgoose.com. Riders will receive incentives to try their first ride, and drivers will receive ongoing incentives to maintain their driving schedule using Goose’s online commute calendar. The project proposes to reduce 322 commute trips.
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The goal of this project is to reduce single occupancy vehicle trips to the campus by strongly marketing walking and biking to the University of Puget Sound. The campus is surrounded by residential housing and most staff and faculty live within a reasonable walking and biking range. All participants will report their daily commuting habits by completing a monthly report. All project participants using alternate transportation modes will be entered in monthly prize drawings. This project proposes to reduce 75 commute trips.
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Going for Green is a program that will provide incentives, reward, remind and ultimately reduce both commute trips and carbon emissions. This program will provide an innovative, sustainable environmental marketing overlay along with a comprehensive commute management program. For employers, it will feature an all-in-one commute management tool that consists of incentive tracking, reward management and information management. It will provide meaningful insight about the positive impact that commuters have on the environment when they choose to not commute alone. The project proposes to reduce 714 commute trips.
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David Evans and Associates, Inc. - Dare to Share $9,100
This project will provide continued financial assistance to David Evans and Associates current “Dare to Share” commute trip reduction program. The “Dare to Share” program currently gives monetary incentives to employees to reduce single occupant vehicle trips through the use of carpooling, vanpooling, transit, cycling and walking. This project is expected to reduce 12 vehicle trips per day in the first year which is equivalent to 480 roundtrip vehicle miles per day. The project is expected to grow the second year to include 14 vehicle trips per day which is equivalent to 560 roundtrip vehicle miles per day. The project proposes to reduce 26 trips. This project is an enhancement for the 2005-2007 TRPP project.
The project is an extension of the successful elements of the Transportation Management Association’s (TMA) 2005-2007 TRPP project "Easy Rewards" program. Staff will continue to encourage businesses and employees to prepare for the approaching construction impacts of various WSDOT projects slated in the next 9 years with direct impacts to the Greater Duwamish area. The targeted businesses include those within the Ballard Interbay North Seattle Manufacturing and Industrial Center (MIC), the Duwamish MIC & the Tukwila MIC. Financial incentives will be available to individuals for trying commute alternatives, allowing multi-mode options. On-going participation will be rewarded for up to one year. The online program adapted from Spokane’s successful "My Commute" has made administration more efficient and incentive payouts much timelier. Cash incentives have been provided to non-affected employers for creating CTR subsidy programs, as well. The project proposes to reduce 400 trips.
Project objective is to develop a pilot with partners to demonstrate the effect of insurance pricing based on miles driven as a means to reduce single occupant vehicle trips The project intends to examine the viability of a Pay per Mile insurance as strategy to reduce vehicle miles traveled and gain market share for an insurance partner. The challenge is to stimulate a “risk-adverse” insurance industry to try a new underwriting approach. The expectation is that people will reduce trips because of pricing or incentives to try other modes. TRPP funds leverages contributions from local partners complement a $2 million Federal fund Value Pricing proposal and $3 million committed by a local insurance partner. The project proposes to reduce 600 trips.
King County Metro is the lead agency on the PAYD project. Other sponsors include King County Department of Natural Resources, City of Bellevue, City of Redmond, City of Seattle, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Northwest Environment Watch, Climate Solutions, Transportation Choices Coalition, Bicycle Alliance of Washington, Unigard Insurance.
This project targets employees who commute to work in single occupant vehicle. The goal of the program is to get those employees to join a new or existing vanpools or carpools by using a variety of incentives. The project will reduce 6 trips (two new carpools) in the first year and 3 trips through the formation of new vanpools or carpools in the second year, which would be 20 percent of our eligible employees. The project proposes to reduce 10 trips.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance propose reducing parking need and single occupancy vehicle commutes to campus by increasing transit, carpool, vanpool, bicycle and walking modes by offering monetary incentives. The project offers incentives. The project emphasizes on sustain the alternate mode gains and to take advantage of changes in parking at South Lake Union. The project proposes to reduce 442 trips.
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Renton Bicycle Incentive and Rack Development $11,000
This project will install bike racks at five Renton municipal building or facilities to encourage bicycle trips. Employees who commit to bicycle commuting will receive incentives for initiating bicycle commuting and additional incentives for continuing to commute by bicycle throughout the year. These bicycle racks will also be accessible to the public for their use. The project proposes to reduce 40 trips.
Seattle Central Community College currently has approximately 450 employees using single occupant vehicle parking permits. The project offers $15 per month incentives and gym membership ($15 per month) to employees, who turn in their single occupant vehicle parking permit and switch to alternative commuting modes. Participants would be offered these benefits for up to six months after their switch. In addition to the incentive, participants will save about $40 per month on their parking permit fees. This project proposes to reduce 70 trips.
The project will offer eligible employees the opportunity to telework one day per week beginning July 2007, thus reducing the number of trips to our workplace. However, since we will begin with only one telework day per week, in effect it will take five participants to reduce one trip. Depending on the success of the project, the program may be expanded to allow employees to telework up to two days per week. The project proposes to reduce 25 trips.
The Southbound Solutions program will reduce the single occupant vehicle trips on critical segments of I-5 and I-205 for the Clark County commuter working in the Portland-Metro area by promoting options via employers who have 250 or more employees with a large number of Clark County employees and employers in the Transportation Management Association. There is already a strong partnership between Clark County Commute Trip Reduction office and Portland partners, such as Metro, Portland Department of Transportation, Department of Environmental Quality, Lloyd Transportation Management Association and Swan Island Transportation Management Association. The project proposes to reduce 450 trips.
The Smart Commuter Campaign is the marketing component of the new Clark County commuter Web site, www.ClarkCommute.org. This project is a quarterly incentive campaign designed to encourage and reward commuters whose origin is Clark County CTR affected or voluntary worksite and who opt to use an alternative commute (walk, cycle, carpool, vanpool, or transit) to work.
The Smart Commuter Campaign is patterned after other successful campaigns in the state, such as MyCommute.org in Spokane County and Smart Trips in Whatcom County. Clark County Employee Transportation Coordinators are eagerly awaiting the launch of such a program for their employees to participate in. The project proposes to reduce 160 trips.
This project will reduce trips by providing cash card and referral incentives to Clark County employees to change their commuting habits. This program will succeed because individuals will sign a contract committing them to change prior to receiving the cash card. The CASH program will use community-based social marketing which focuses the message at the personal level while, in the mean time removing their barriers to using commute alternative. Clark County currently offers a fully subsidized bus pass program and as a direct result rider ship has increased by over 200% from 10 riders to over 30 regular riders. Clark County also offers free Flex car memberships, a guaranteed ride home program, preferential carpool parking, bike lockers, showers and other promotions. The project proposes to reduce 40 trips.
This project is based on the successful strategy of using drawings to encourage employees to use alternative modes of commuting. CTR Supersized encourages employees to increase the number of commutes using alternative modes by significantly boosting the value of the drawings as they participate more frequently. The project proposes to reduce 82 trips.
ReRoute Your Commute will reduce trips by providing bike lockers, rideshare matching, and transportation fairs. Incentives will include $20 to $50 cash or gas cards and merchandise to employees at these locations. Program promotion to employees is by email, drawings for the cards and merchandise, and internal Web site. The project funding will help to install the new bike lockers. Kaiser Permanante will also build project sustainability by seeking partners at each of its campus, who have an interest in commute alternatives. The project proposes to reduce 40 trips.
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Spokane County - Partners for Smart Trips $210,000
The project is an enhancement of the successful “Get on Board with MyCommute.org” program which is funded by the 2005-2007 TRPP. The project targets our message to specific commute mode users and encourages new usage. The project focuses on partnerships with public and private organizations to promote the use of commute alternatives not just commute trip Reduction worksites, but the general public as well. Spokane County will offer incentives to participant and staff will offer education, marketing tools and turn-key promotions to participating worksites to increase the use of commute alternative. Staff will also focus on gaining local businesses and public agencies support and encouraging the general public to use a commute alternative and register in MyCommute.org.
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Spokane Teachers Credit Union - It's a Hoot To Commute $11,000
The project creates a tiered incentive program that rewards it participant for reaching certain levels with a higher and higher prize at each tier. All participants who use commute alternatives will be rewarded. The project proposes to reduce a total of 25 annualized vehicle trips and 375 miles per day,
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WSU/EWU - The Riverpoint Bicycle Quad $13,500
This project was funded by the 2005-2007 TRPP funds, however it was canceled due to construction schedule. Washington State University/ Eastern Washington University resubmitted the project again for the 2007-2009 TRPP.
The project will provide a secure area for employees cycling to work at the Riverpoint Campus shared by Washington State University and Eastern Washington University. A room provided by the administration will be remodeled and wall-hung bike racks added. The project will also provide incentives-primarily gift cards-to reward participants for using other commute modes, increasing their participation, or recruiting new participants. The project proposes to reduce 45 trips.
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WWU Campus Commuter Challenge $49,050
The Western Washington University Campus Commuter Challenge pledge program will reduce employee work trips with an information and publicity campaign combined with an enhanced program of assistance and incentives. Strategies for success includes a range of commitment pledge options; specially designed “Toolkits” to help employees try alternative modes; rewards and collaborative messaging with campus safety, sustainability and wellness programs. Departmental information sessions will add an internal support method, ensuring that Commute Trip Reduction program information and benefits reaches employees in their daily work setting. This project proposes to reduce 150 trips.
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Zak Design - Using a Commute Alternative is Zaktacular $5,810
The project offer prizes that everyone will want, thus encouraging and challenging employees to use a commute trip alternative at least twice a month. The project also offers small giveaways throughout building to the grand prize. The project offers reward to every person that uses a commute alternative. This project proposes to reduce 14 trips.
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