Category: Demand Management

  • Flexcar Policy at City Council Tomorrow

    For those of you who followed our discussion of City policy on use of on-street parking spaces for car-sharing, the proposed policy is on the City Council agenda for 9:30 tomorrow (6/21) time-certain [time certain means it can’t start before that time, it will almost certainly start a few minutes later]. Come down and share…

  • Incenting Behavior Change

    Remember the old advertising jingle, “I’d like to buy the world a coke…”, well how about a new version: “I’d like to buy the world a bike…” Here’s a success story from the Rogue Valley on getting folks to change their transportation patterns. In April of 2005, fifteen courageous Rogue Valley citizens committed to giving…

  • Cost Effective Incentives for Transit

    I attended PSU’s transportation seminar a few Fridays ago and heard an interesting student presentation on employer provided incentives for transit use (go to the seminar page to download or stream the presentation). Some of the information was intuitive, e.g., if you give employees a transit pass, they’ll use transit more often. The big insight…

  • Congestion and the Last Mile

    Hat tip to reader Randy Evans who passed on this link for a European pilot program on managing congestion due to city-center deliveries. What might a similar program look like here in our region?

  • Designing Oregon’s Road User Fee Pilot Test

    Check out the latest thinking on this idea at Friday’s PSU Transportation Seminar. Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2006 Transportation Seminar Series Topic: Designing Oregon’s Road User Fee Pilot Test Speakers: Jill Pearson, Road User Fee Pilot Project Manager, Oregon Department of Transportation; and David Kim, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,…