Reinveting Carpooling Workshop Agenda

Reinventing Carpooling
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

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

Introductions
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

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?

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

Strategies to Achieve the Vision
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.