Business Logistics 420 Urban Transportation Fall 2000

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Business Logistics 420Urban TransportationFall
2000

• Lectures 6 Coping with Edge City Transportation
  Problems
• Livable Cities, Transit-Friendly Land Use, and
  Transportation Demand Management

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Lecture Objectives

• Understand the range of possible solutions to
  the Edge City transportation problem and the
  consequences of each solution
• Understand the role of public transit as one of
  several transportation demand management
  strategies
• Understand the meaning and scope of activities
  included in the current livable cities movement

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Results of Edge City Traffic

• More congestion
• Lost productivity (hours of delay)
• Increased pollution
• Lower quality of life
• Increased cost of living

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Managing Traffic in the Edge City

• Do nothing
• More infrastructure Build our way out
• Land Use Controls
• Travel demand management
• Expanded transit usage

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Building More Infrastructure

• Build our way out
• Problems
• Limited funds
• Lack of available right of way
• Citizen opposition
• Probably not a long-run solution
• Despite all of these problems, we still try to
  add capacity to solve problems

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Land Use Controls

• Land use the overall built environment
• How land is used and organized
• Size, density, design, use mix, etc.
• Land Use Strategies
• Density
• Mixed-use
• Jobs-housing balance

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Transportation Demand Management (TDM)

• TDM a process to alleviate traffic problems
  through improved management of trip demand
• TDM Strategies
• Provide alternatives to auto travel
• Improve transportation system efficiency
• Discourage auto use

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Alternatives to Auto Use

• Expanded transit service
• Park and Ride services
• Shuttle systems
• Pedestrian friendliness
• Employee transit subsidies
• Bicycling

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Improved System Efficiency

• Increasing vehicle utilization from 1.2 persons
  per vehicle to ?
• Carpooling
• Vanpooling
• Informal carpooling (Slugging)
• Other high occupancy vehicles (subscription bus)
• Spread peak period demand
• Flextime
• Staggered work hours
• Modified work schedules (ex. 4, 10-hour days)

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Discouraging Auto Usage

• Parking management
• Limit supply
• Preference for ridesharing
• Reduced or no free parking
• Traffic reduction ordinances
• Trip reduction goals for employers
• Workplace coordinators
• Included in property covenants
• Transportation Management Associations (TMA)

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Expand Transit Usage

• Increase attractiveness of transit
• Enhance service
• Provide accessibility

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Increase Transit Attractiveness

• Reduce attractiveness of auto travel
• Give priority to transit
• Expand service levels
• Increased land use densities
• Mixed use development(All of the above are
  livable cities concepts)

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Enhance Transit Service

• Express Buses
• Expanded Schedules
• HOV lanes

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Livable Cities Concept

• Provide more travel options than the private car,
  especially walking, bike, transit
• Increase density of development and mix of land
  uses
• Smaller lots
• Auto access from alleys
• Mixed land use to allow for corner store

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Other Livable Cities Concepts

• Slower growth (smart growth)
• Traffic calming
• Transit options
• More service
• Transit friendly development
• Site design to encourage transit, walking, not
  cars
• More intense mixed use near stations

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Study Questions

• What is TDM and what strategies are included in
  this approach?
• What are TMAs or TMOs and what role do they play
  in solving urban mobility problems?
• What are the most successful demand management
  strategies?
• If you were in charge what would you do to make
  our cities more livable?