Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Transportation Demand Management

Report Offers Better Ways to Cut Traffic from New Development

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 17, 2018 | 3 Comments

What if instead of requiring developers to add parking or widen roads, we asked them to do things that discouraged driving and car ownership? That's what Smart Growth America recommends.

Aspen commuters will be able to use an app to earn free products for trying sustainable commuting. Photo: Miles App

Aspen Experiments With Paying People Not to Drive Downtown

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 27, 2018 | 20 Comments

Drivers who shift to transit, biking or carpooling will earn points that can be cashed out at local businesses.

Arlington County teachers all receive free Capital Bikeshare memberships. Photo: Mobility Lab

Arlington Makes It Easier for Teachers to Stop Driving to School

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 22, 2017 | 4 Comments

A first-of-its-kind program in Arlington, Virginia, uses incentives to encourage teachers to carpool, walk, or bike to school.

How Seattle Children’s Hospital Took the Lead on Healthy Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | May 8, 2015 | 16 Comments

It’s more than a little ironic that in many places, hospitals are some of the worst offenders when it comes to perpetrating unhealthy transportation patterns. Often surrounded by enormous parking decks, hospitals have earned a reputation as isolated institutions hermetically sealed off from surrounding neighborhoods. But that’s beginning to change. Healthcare providers are undergoing a fundamental shift from focusing on […]

Parking Craters Aren’t Just Ugly, They’re a Cancer on Your City’s Downtown

By Payton Chung | Apr 10, 2014 | 12 Comments

Streetsblog’s Parking Madness competition has highlighted the blight that results when large surface parking lots take over a city’s downtown. Even though Rochester, winner of 2014’s Golden Crater, certainly gains bragging rights, all of the competitors have something to worry about: Cumulatively, the past 50 years of building parking have had a debilitating effect on America’s downtowns. […]

Apple Transportation Program Stuck in the Past

By Tom Fairchild | Apr 9, 2014 | 24 Comments

Tom Fairchild is the director of Mobility Lab. This article was originally published by METRO Magazine. As an avid iPhone user, I have bought into the sense that Apple could literally peer into the future and deliver me technology that I never realized I would so desperately need. For years, Steve Jobs and company seem to have been our […]

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