VANPOOL PROGRAM STRATEGY POINTS TO SUCCESS

In late 1992, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), a publicly owned electric utility serving nearly 450,000 customers in the Sacramento County area, developed a strategy to increase employee participation in vanpooling by purchasing commuter vans and internally operating a vanpool program. The program was launched in early 1993 with 9 vans purchased by SMUD. The article discusses the strategy that has enabled the program to grow from the first year total of approximately 200,000 commute miles using nine vans to today's 24 vans that travel about 1,700 commute miles per day. It can be estimated that in any single day, the participants riding SMUD operated vanpools, employees who might otherwise be driving alone to work avoid an estimated two million commute miles annually.

• Corporate Authors:

  Association for Commuter Transportation

  1518 K Street, NW, Suite 503
  Washington, DC  United States  20005
• Authors:
  • Vaira, K
• Publication Date: 1999-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 8-10
• Serial:
  • TDM Review
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Association for Commuter Transportation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Air quality management; Employee participation; Employer sponsored transportation; Paratransit services; Vanpools
• Geographic Terms: California; Sacramento (California)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Environment; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00765389
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 1999 12:00AM