Buying people out of their single occupancy vehicles. Presented by CALSTART project manager, David Kantor, at Multi-Mobility Forum, October 8, 2009, co-hosted by LA Metro and CALSTART
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Buying People Out Of Their Single Occupancy Vehicles
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(they pay more if they use a parking space) than a parking cash out incentive (they receive a rebate for reducing their use of parking spaces) of the same amount (Shoup 1997) Victoria Transport Policy Institute chart from Transportation Elasticities: How Prices and Other Factors Affect Travel Behavior, 26 August 2009 “Different price changes have different impacts on behavior”
If I wasn’t paying you anything a month to get out of your car, we could expect about a 75% rate of single occupancy drivers. However, if we offered to pay consumers about $40 a month, that rate would decrease to about 60% SOV. You can buy the SOV rate down to about 30% at $160 per person on a monthly basis. Victoria Transport Policy Institute chart from Transportation Elasticities: How Prices and Other Factors Affect Travel Behavior, 26 August 2009 “ SOV travel decline as economic incentives for other modes increase”
Victoria Transport Policy Institute chart from Transportation Elasticities: How Prices and Other Factors Affect Travel Behavior, 26 August 2009 “ This figure illustrates the effects Parking Cash Out has on commute mode choice.”
Walk through and pick the two most compelling types of impacts.
All indicators seem to point to the fact that Americans are driving less. And Public transit has become the answer for many. A couple of months ago, APTA, the American Public Transit Association, saw very high rates of transit ridership growth in many transit systems across the US. Transit managers are predicting growth of 5 percent or more this year, the largest increase in at least a decade. APTA says Americans took 10.3 billion trips on public transit last year, up 2.1 percent from 2006 – and the biggest gains are in light rail and commuter rail, with Seattle being the leader in commuter rail ridership increases.
Need money? Is funding hard to find to pay for these projects? How about, instead of paying $25,000 per parking spot or $4,000,000 for a parking garage, we invest $1 million into incentive programs instead and reduce the parking pressures?
Need money? Is funding hard to find to pay for these projects? How about, instead of paying $25,000 per parking spot or $4,000,000 for a parking garage, we invest $1 million into incentive programs instead and reduce the parking pressures?
Need money? Is funding hard to find to pay for these projects? How about, instead of paying $25,000 per parking spot or $4,000,000 for a parking garage, we invest $1 million into incentive programs instead and reduce the parking pressures?