Kiersten Grove, Senior Transportation Planner, Seattle Department of Transportation - Shared Use Mobility in Seattle
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Seattle has seen significant growth in shared mobility options over the past decade, with over 750 carsharing vehicles and 67,000 members currently. Carsharing services like Zipcar and car2go started in Seattle in the late 1990s and 2000s, respectively, and car2go now has a fleet of 750 vehicles after legislation passed in 2012-2013 allowed free-floating carshare programs. The city is continuing to support shared mobility through plans to encourage shared vehicle land use, expand bike sharing, and determine how many additional free-floating carshare vehicles will be allowed in 2016.
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Kiersten Grove, Senior Transportation Planner, Seattle Department of Transportation - Shared Use Mobility in Seattle
- 1. Shared use mobility in Seattle Cities: Use of public space for shared mobility Carsharing Conference | Sept 22, 2015 | Vancouver, BC Kiersten Grove, Seattle Department of Transportation
- 2. 2 What’s going on in Seattle?
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- 4. 177 cars 3 buses 1 light rail train on their bikes 4
- 5. How we use the street 5
- 6. History of car share in Seattle 1999 2007 2012 – 2013 Free-floating car share legislation passes 350 car fleet, grew to 20,000 members 2012 2013 2015 # cars 330 500 750 # members 60,000 67,000 6
- 7. • 300+ in off-street locations • $3,000/paid areas (6 spaces) • $300/unpaid areas (16 spaces) Zipcar today 25% of Seattle members report getting rid of a car and going car free after joining Zipcar 7
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- 10. • Currently 750 permits, more companies coming in 2016 • $1,730/vehicle/ye ar • 67,000 members Free-floating – car2go today 10
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- 15. What’s next? 15 • Shared use mobility plan • Potential land use code changes to encourage shared vehicle use • Determine how many free-floating cars to allow in 2016 • TIGER grant – bike share expansion (TBD) graphic via www.move-forward.com
- 16. Transportation as a system Publicly and/or privately provided 16 Infrastructure + services
Editor's Notes
- Thanks for inviting me to participate on this panel; great to be in Vancouver. We’re facing some critical issues in Seattle 40% of our climate emissions come from road transport. If we want to make a dent in climate change, we need to give people real travel options Traffic collisions and fatalities – in Seattle, we see over 10,000 crashes and close to 20 fatalities each year, and we are among the safest cities in the U.S. Affordability, displacement, and equity – a huge conversation in Seattle, where housing prices are skyrocketing, and where transportation costs consume 17% of the average hh monthly bills A rapidly aging population – many of whom can no longer drive, or no longer wish to As well as a younger millenial generation with shifting trends – lower auto use and drivers license attainment Shared mobility is a key part to addressing each of these challenges, so I’m excited to be here today to talk and learn more about how others are grappling with similar issues.
- I want to touch on a few things happening in Seattle, a city of about 660,000 (2010 Census put us at 608,000) We’re one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., with 100,000 more people and 115,000 more jobs expected in the next 20 years. We see this growth in the form of development: 42 cranes dot the city’s skyline 106 projects currently under construction, about to break ground or completed since January 2014 120 projects in downtown core that are in the pipeline (proposed, but not yet in permitting or scheduled, etc)
- In Seattle, about 27% of our land space is dedicated to right of way – streets, sidewalks We’re bound by water on 2 sides, and a major interstate goes down the middle of the city. We have pretty limited street space and more people and goods wanting to get in and out of the city. So people often complain of congestion – during regular commute times, and during special events, and unanticipated events
- So how do we make the best use of the space we have – how do we move more people and goods? This is the key question I think all cities grapple with. And you can see that there are more efficient ways to move people around. Communicating this message to the public is really critical. We see shared use mobility as a key part of a relatively simple math problem. It’s the policies, decision making, and politics that makes things challenging (and exciting, I suppose).
- ROW allocation graphic depicting how we explain all the different uses for the street Seattle’s curb use priorities (per Comp Plan) Generally, our priority is in making sure we can move the most number of people and goods safely and efficiently. Short-term loading comes next Then actual parking, including parking for shared vehicles
- Flexcar started off in Seattle in 1999 $35 membership fee, then $10/hr 350 car fleet Grew to 20,000 members Merged with Zipcar in 2007 Free-floating Started off with 330 cars (cap at 350) in 2013 – legislation passed in 2012 Council quickly adopted new regulation in 2013 allowing them to go up to 500, simultaneously car2go expanded their service area Fee increase – went from $1,330 to $1,730 for a permit for one car (legislation passed in 2015), also required that after 2 years of service, they provide citywide service 60,000+ members (35-40,000 before earlier)
- Over 300 Zipcars throughout the city In a recent survey (included 1,000 Seattle Zipcar members) – nearly 25% of members report getting rid of a car and going car free after joining Zipcar
- Zipcar launched a One-Way pilot with Seattle Children’s – you can take a car from a Children’s location to another Children’s (geekwire article)
- Free-floating – car2go You can see how the service area has expanded over time After we passed legislation in 2012, Started off with 330 cars (cap at 350) in 2013 Council quickly adopted new regulation in 2013 allowing them to go up to 500, simultaneously car2go expanded their service area
- 750 car2go vehicles About 63,000 people have enrolled in Car2Go here and taken some 2 million trips during two years through the close-in Seattle neighborhoods — the highest use in the U.S. 3-4% of members report giving up a vehicle SDOT gets $830/vehicle/year our of the $1,730 – this goes primarily to TDM efforts and low-income access to car share; also goes to evaluation efforts FFCS operators are required to serve the entire city after two years of operation in Seattle Only operate in Seattle currently Breakdown of $1,730: $930 to off-set paid parking use $700 for restricted parking zone and TDM efforts $100 admin Operator must pay City annually if more than $900/vehicle of paid parking is used
- FFCS operators do a survey annually and report to the City of Seattle, SDOT worked with car2go and Susan Shaheen of UC Berkeley to develop the survey Data from July 2015 car2go survey showing car2go users take advantage of a variety of shared-use services
- Here’s a further breakdown on frequency of one use for one (Lyft)
- Coming next spring, DriveNow – very exciting! coming in with a mixed fleet, 3-4 vehicle types, probably some electric vehicles
- When we tie our car sharing efforts into our expanding network of travel options, we’re seeing a really great suite of options for people to choose from We have a young bike share system (50 stations and 500 bikes) that we aim to significantly expand and grow into the country’s first electric-assist bike share program More people, particularly those working downtown, are opting for travel options other than driving alone Our transportation network is growing – light rail stations in Capitol Hill and near the University of WA will open in the next year. 14,000 daily riders at Cap Hill by 2030; 25,000 riders at UW station.
- We’re beginning to put together a shared use mobility plan Phase I will be complete this year: policy revisions to taxi/TNC world Also looking at revamping some of our land use code to encourage shared vehicle use Where we have required parking, we already allow car share spaces to help meet requirement Next step is how to incentivize car share vehicle parking where there are NOT min parking reqs (off-street car share) Need to determine how many cars we’ll allow in 2016 Recommending a 500 vehicle cap for companies that have been in operation for less than 2 years Recommending that for any company that’s providing citywide service, there’s no cap (this is tricky because it doesn’t allow for incremental growth)
- To close, I want to re-affirm that it’s going to take a lot of different things coming together to help solve some of the big challenges facing cities. Providing high quality, affordable transportation options and services is going to be critical to serving all people, particularly our aging population, those with disabilities, and people for whom car ownership is not financially feasible. These options are also going to help us meaningfully address big issues like climate change and traffic fatalities. It’s going to force cities to really look at transportation as a system, much of which is a service. Carsharing and shared mobility are already playing key pieces in this system and I’m excited to see how they’ll continue to help us address the growing needs of a growing Seattle.