TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT: A PRACTITIONER'S EXPERIENCE

The experience and evaluation of the RideShare Department of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments are presented. From the practitioner's experience, it is concluded that ridesharing programs, because they provide a more economical and less stressful means of commuting to work, can be marketed by major employers as an employee personnel benefit. The use of designated employee transportation coordinators for ridesharing by such employers has established good, solid programs. Marketing ridesharing to the general public enhances the objectives of transportation system management (TSM) by coordinating commuters with existing major businesses and business districts. This evaluation will enable the regional planning agency to reassess its goals in order to satisfy the existing TSM objectives through ridesharing.

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• Authors:
  • Fondriest, Cynthia V
• Publication Date: 1986

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 40-47
• Monograph Title: Urban traffic management
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1081
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuters; Employers; Marketing; Regional transportation; Ridesharing; Transportation planning; Transportation system management
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00474373
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309041015
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 31 1987 12:00AM