Metro - File #: 2017-0715

• File #: 2017-0715
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 10/13/2017
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 10/18/2017
• Final action: 10/26/2017
• Title: WE, THEREFORE, MOVE that the Board direct the CEO to: A. Prepare a list of TDM best practices of California agencies and jurisdictions, including but not limited to the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission; B. Inventory current MTA funding sources for planning or implementing TDM programs and projects at the county or local level; C. Recommend how MTA can establish a robust and comprehensive countywide TDM program, including but not limited to: 1. Countywide TDM guidelines to help municipalities create and implement TDM policies by establishing best practices for TDM application, monitoring, and evaluation, and allowing for flexibility to innovate beyond countywide standards; 2. Countywide TDM marketing, outreach, and engagement campaign that targets potential users through a compelling and recognizable brand available to local cities and jurisdictions to promote multi-modal travel choices such as transit, vanpooling, carpooling, walking, and bicycling; 3. Facilitating...
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Bicycling, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, James Butts, Motion / Motion Response, Program, Program management, Purchasing, Ridesharing, San Fernando Valley subregion, Shelia Kuehl, South Bay Cities subregion, Sustainable transportation, Telecommuting, Transportation Demand Management, Travel demand management, Vehicle occupancy, Walking, Westside Cities subregion
• Related files: 2018-0135, 2018-0799, 2019-0448

Date	Action By	Action	Result
10/26/2017	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 18, 2017

Preamble
Revised Motion by:

Garcetti, Dupont-Walker and Butts

October 18, 2017

Countywide Transportation Demand Management

MTA should be a national leader in working with local jurisdictions to promote transit use, active transportation, and other multi-modal travel.
MTA is leading a great expansion of mobility options in Los Angeles County, including the rail and bus transit system, bikeshare, first-last mile links, and groundbreaking technology-based new mobility services, including U-Pass and On-demand Microtransit Pilot Programs. A robust and comprehensive countywide Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program would maximize the benefits of these investments in LA County's transportation systems.
TDM focuses on reducing single-occupancy vehicle trips by making other transportation options more attractive. TDM promotes sustainable transportation options such as transit, carpooling, vanpooling, bicycling and walking. TDM strategies boost transit ridership, promote telecommuting, reduce single-occupancy vehicle trips, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. MTA can serve as the facilitator of a countywide TDM program that encourages and supports local jurisdictions in initiating, developing, and implementing their own TDM initiatives.
Currently, there is an absence of a robust and comprehensive countywide TDM promotion and coordination program in Los Angeles County. As the countywide transportation agency, MTA is ideally suited to lead this effort. A robust TDM program will enable MTA to leverage its historic transportation investments to further change travel behavior and help the region ease congestion and meet statewide greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. This would build on MTA's ongoing Congestion Reduction activities, including 511, promoting carpooling through ExpressLanes, creating vanpools, etc.
MTA can promote TDM strategies through many different methods--by coordinating loca...