Transportation Demand Management
Transportation demand management, or TDM, describes a set of strategies that aim to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the transportation system.
Transportation Demand Management is focused on understanding how people make transportation decisions in order to encourage the use of existing infrastructure in more efficient ways, such as reducing single occupancy vehicle trips (or drive-alone trips) and encouraging the use of public transit, walking, biking, telework and other travel modes.
Commute Trip Reduction
ommute Trip Reduction, or CTR, is a statewide initiative to address growing concerns surrounding air pollution, gas consumption, and traffic congestion. A major part of this program is aimed at decreasing the number of single occupancy vehicle trips by encouraging commuters to use other transportation methods such as riding public transit, carpooling, vanpooling, bicycling, walking and working from home/teleworking when possible. SRTC, along with the region’s Commute Trip Reduction plan implementer, CommuteSmart Northwest (Spokane County), and participating local agencies update the region’s Commute Trip Reduction Plan. The plan first must be approved by the state Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Technical Committee and then must be adopted by each agency’s legislative body.
Who is participating in the Commute Trip Reduction Program?
CommuteSmart Northwest not only assists in developing the plan but also executes the CommuteSmart employer program. Each participating local agency, aside from the Spokane Transit Authority, also authors their own local Commute Trip Reduction Plan.
- City of Spokane
- Spokane Valley
- Airway Heights
- Liberty Lake
- Medical Lake
- Cheney
- Spokane County
- Spokane Transit Authority
- CommuteSmart Northwest
