A Pre-Summit Workshop at the SMART Summit: MOVING MINDS: THE NEXT TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE 9 November 2009

Introduction 76% SOV share for travel to work: 104 million people 8.2% HOV2 share, 11 million people 2.5% HOV3+, 3.4 million people 4.8% Public Transport, 6.6 million people 176 billion gallons of gas and diesel in 2007 2.81 billion gallons wasted in congestion 4.16 billion hours of delay Problem is too many cars, and carpooling could be doing more, should be doing more

76% SOV share for travel to work: 104 million people

8.2% HOV2 share, 11 million people

2.5% HOV3+, 3.4 million people

4.8% Public Transport, 6.6 million people

176 billion gallons of gas and diesel in 2007

2.81 billion gallons wasted in congestion

4.16 billion hours of delay

Problem is too many cars, and carpooling could be doing more, should be doing more

Introduction cont’d Meeting planned for TRB in January Team seeking to move carpooling up in the hierarchy Desire to get an equal seat at the table with Transit, Highways, when discussing traffic reduction Personal effort has encountered a ‘lack of mandate’ Real Time Rides meeting at MIT brought dynamic ride-share proponents together Technology, Systems should deliver results SMART Summit provided avenue for open discussion

Meeting planned for TRB in January

Team seeking to move carpooling up in the hierarchy

Desire to get an equal seat at the table with Transit, Highways, when discussing traffic reduction

Personal effort has encountered a ‘lack of mandate’

Real Time Rides meeting at MIT brought dynamic ride-share proponents together

Technology, Systems should deliver results

SMART Summit provided avenue for open discussion

Introductions Each participant to say: Name Affiliation What carpooling or related activity you are working on Please be brief

Each participant to say:

Name

Affiliation

What carpooling or related activity you are working on

Please be brief

History of Carpooling Fam-pools, New Migrants, HOV lanes, Ride-matching databases, Commute Trip Reduction laws, Slug-lines, casual carpooling, fuel crises, fuel price spikes, vanpooling, bridge bucks, carpool incentive programs, trip reduction performance program, jitneys, A round table session to create a good list of where we have been

Fam-pools, New Migrants, HOV lanes, Ride-matching databases, Commute Trip Reduction laws, Slug-lines, casual carpooling, fuel crises, fuel price spikes, vanpooling, bridge bucks, carpool incentive programs, trip reduction performance program, jitneys,

A round table session to create a good list of where we have been

Visioning: What is Possible? Pre-arranging carpools on the fly: Cell phones, mobile internet devices, internet, Carpooling without pre-arrangement: lessons from the slugs If everyone who could, rode together, what amount of ridesharing would there be? How many trips are ‘convergent’? What is the upper limit?

Pre-arranging carpools on the fly: Cell phones, mobile internet devices, internet,

Carpooling without pre-arrangement: lessons from the slugs

If everyone who could, rode together, what amount of ridesharing would there be?

How many trips are ‘convergent’?

What is the upper limit?

Visioning: What do we want to achieve? What are the terms to use? Is it mode share, or more outcome based? Is it average occupancy? HOV 2 vs HOV3+ Goal of this session: articulate a vision

What are the terms to use?

Is it mode share, or more outcome based?

Is it average occupancy?

HOV 2 vs HOV3+

Goal of this session: articulate a vision

Strategies to Achieve the Vision We will discuss each of three focus areas, and the barriers, enablers, and actions for each Political: Policy Operational

We will discuss each of three focus areas, and the barriers, enablers, and actions for each

Political:

Policy

Operational

Thanks To all the participants: I hope the Skype arrangements work To Sue Zielinski at SMART for making it possible to have this workshop as part of the Summit And remember: the next workshop in the series will be at the TRB on 10 January.

To all the participants: I hope the Skype arrangements work

To Sue Zielinski at SMART for making it possible to have this workshop as part of the Summit

And remember: the next workshop in the series will be at the TRB on 10 January.