Shared Mobility Options for the Commute Trip: Opportunities for Employers and Employees
The overall goal is to understand how App-based travel and newly available shared mobility options can improve the commute. The project will focus on employees and their employers as the primary decision makers in commute mode choice. (1) For the employee as the commuter, communication technology-enabled travel, including App-based travel facilitates the selection of travel mode options; allows for temporally adjusted mode choice for the commuter to consider different weeks or days based on family schedule, weather, unplanned events, etc.; provides detailed information on travel duration and cost, route taken, trip carbon footprint, etc. (2) For the employer, communication technology-enabled travel can serve to collect data on employee behavior for Travel Demand Management (TDM) planning; to help develop new Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) programs/options; to communicate with employees regarding both long-term (e.g. work flex options) and short-term issues (e.g. addressing weather or roadblock issues, or any special conditions); and to help recruit/retain needed talents by providing employees with better commuting options.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $360000
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747110
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium
University of Washington
More Hall Room 112
Seattle, WA United States 98195-2700 -
Project Managers:
Shen, Qing
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Performing Organizations:
University of Washington, Seattle
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
201 More Hall, Box 352700
Seattle, WA United States 98195-2700 Department of Civil Engineering
P.O. Box 441022
Moscow, ID United States 83844-1022 -
Principal Investigators:
Moudon, Anne
Ban, Jeff
Lowry, Michael
- Start Date: 20200916
- Expected Completion Date: 20221231
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Commuters; Commuting; Employees; Employers; Mobile applications; Mode choice; Shared mobility
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01763327
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747110
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Feb 3 2021 6:56PM