This report presents the Conceptual Design Plan for evaluating the effectiveness of the Smart Corridor Demonstration Project. The specific objectives of this report are to: 1) develop a conceptual structure for the Smart Corridor evaluation, 2) define evaluation data requirements and collection...

Americans often look to Southern California as a place where lifestyle trends are born. Now, ironically, the land that has long glorified the car culture is galvanizing commuting behavior and encouraging abstinence from the once-respectable custom of solo driving. The catalyst for this...

Regulation XV of the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Southern California requires all work sites at which there are 100 or more employees to implement a ridesharing program by which the organization's "average vehicle ridership" is intended to be increased to a specified target...

With this first issue of Access, we at the University of California Transportation Center seek to introduce our research to a diverse community of readers. By presenting our findings in a nontechnical format, we hope to make them accessible to professionals in various fields and to citizens who...

Transportation demand management, or TDM, has emerged as a policy of choice for responding to growth, congestion, air pollution, and constrained transportation budgets. TDM is aimed at reducing congestion by restricting travel demand, rather than by providing more transportation capacity. It...

Trip reduction policies are increasingly utilized in U.S. metropolitan areas to address congestion and air quality problems. These policies typically focus on the journey to work and are aimed at reducing the amount of drive-alone commuting by providing transit and ride-sharing incentives....

American attitudes toward transportation planning have undergone significant change. For three decades after World War II, public policy emphasized construction of new highway and transit facilities to remove the backlog of needs resulting from the combined effects of depression, a war economy,...

This report presents results of the San Gabriel Valley Smart Shuttle (SGVSS) Field Operational Test (FOT). Results are drawn from a comprehensive evaluation of the FOT conducted over a three-year period. The SGVSS attempted to integrate services of three local municipal public transit operators...

This paper summarizes the literature on the effectiveness of employee ridesharing programs. It provides the conceptual and empirical basis for our evaluation of AQMD's mandatory ridesharing ordinance, Regulation XV. We review the literature on the following topics: 1) employee ridesharing...