BEATING THE TRAFFIC WITH COMMUTING ALTERNATIVES

This pamphlet describes how, by encouraging commuting options, local governments can help reduce air pollution, fuel consumption, and traffic congestion. Minimizing these problems makes the community more appealing to businesses, residents, and visitors and boosts the local economy. Approaches to alternative transportation are as varied as the communities devising and using them. But the critical factor is initiative from local governments, often one of communities' largest employers. They can use and promote commuting alternatives among their employees. Local governments can also promote alternative transportation among other employers and the general public. They can provide information on commuting options, improve the infrastructure, and use local authority to require and reward those changes necessary to make alternative transportation a widely accepted part of community life. Best of all, local governments can lead by example and establish a template for other employers to follow.

• Record URL:
  http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/72955-nS84bC/webviewable/72955.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  1617 Cole Boulevard
  Golden, CO  United States  80401
• Publication Date: 1995-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Communities; Commuter service; Commuting; Employer sponsored transportation; Local government; Social values; Traffic congestion; Travel patterns; Urban development
• Uncontrolled Terms: Congestion
• Old TRIS Terms: Community values
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00720376
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOE-GO-10095-171
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 23 2001 12:00AM