An official website of the POLICY 21: Travel demand management
This policy states:
Use travel demand management (TDM) to plan, fund, and promote multimodal travel options and alternatives to driving alone.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 21A. Provide incentives for trip reductions by single-occupancy vehicle travel. Work directly with employers to establish travel demand management programs, performance targets, and technical support, as needed. Create and implement a framework for other incentive and pricing strategies. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Investment Priority Partner |
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| 21B. Create a regional travel demand management program structure and technical working group to improve transparency and awareness of the regional travel demand management program. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 21C. Implement development-based trip reduction programs and ordinances. Use regional funding to prioritize developments that address travel demand management. Provide technical support to cities and developers on travel demand management ordinance development and implementation. Action types: Local Planning Investment Priority Partner |
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| 21D. Prioritize investments in travel demand management that improve highway reliability. Use travel demand management strategies to spread highway travel demand across less congested hours of the day. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 21E. Prioritize transportation projects that include travel demand management elements or serve communities with travel demand management ordinances, strategies, and programs. Action types: Investment Priority Partner |
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| 21F. Conduct outreach and promotion activities for alternatives to driving alone that increase awareness about options and promote new travel demand management programs. Provide support for people trying new travel modes with trip training and guides. Action types: Investment Priority Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 21G. Continue to explore and support shared mobility options across different modes and platforms to allow for more flexible and affordable travel and reduce the need for vehicles in a household. Prioritize investments in shared mobility that support regional goals and objectives. Explore providing regional shared e-bike and e-scooter services to provide first- and last-mile options for users to connect to their origins and destinations. Action types: Investment Priority Partner |
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| 21H. Create methodologies and guidance to integrate travel demand management activities into highway planning and project development processes. Action types: Local Planning Work Program Partner |
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| 21I. Create frameworks for travel demand management incentives, pricing, and development review programs to support implementation of actions. Action types: Investment Priority Technical Capacity Building Work Program |
(TMO) |
TMO is Transportation Management Organizations.
