Transportation Demand Management

Goal M-8: Encourage transportation demand management strategies and programs to reduce vehicular travel, traffic congestion, and parking demand.

Transportation demand management (TDM) programs include a variety of measures that can be an effective way to reduce vehicle trips and parking demand. TDM programs include a variety of strategies ranging from financial incentives, carpool and vanpools, telecommuting, and informational and promotional activities. TDM programs are typically implemented at the local level by the City, major employers, developers, and public and private institutions. Regional agencies also provide TDM programs, such as the Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) funded by the Alameda CTC, and the 511.org, which provide transit information and rideshare matching. 

Policies in this section focus on TDM strategies and programs that the City can implement to reduce congestion, vehicle miles traveled, and parking demand. For a primarily urban, built-out city where opportunities to widen intersections and roadways to accommodate future growth are limited, TDM strategies and programs provide another option to address the transportation needs of residents, visitors, and employees. 

The City shall work with a broad range of agencies (e.g., Metropolitan Transportation Commission, BAAQMD, AC Transit, Caltrans) to encourage and support programs that increase vehicle occupancy including the provision of traveler information, shuttles, preferential parking for carpools/vanpools, transit pass subsidies, and other methods.

City Master Plans, Strategies, and Programs (MPSP)Inter-governmental Coordination (IGC)Public Information (PI)

The City shall maintain and implement a citywide Travel Demand Management Program, which provides a menu of strategies and programs for developers and employers to reduce single-occupant vehicle travel in the city.

City Master Plans, Strategies, and Programs (MPSP)

The City shall encourage employers to participate in TDM programs (e.g., guaranteed ride home, subsidized transit passes, carpool and vanpool programs) and to participate in or create Transportation Management Associations to reduce parking needs and vehicular travel.

Regulation and Development Review (RDR)City Master Plans, Strategies, and Programs (MPSP)

The City shall encourage employers to provide transit subsidies, bicycle facilities, alternative work schedules, ridesharing, telecommuting and work-at-home programs, employee education, and preferential parking for carpools/vanpools.

Regulation and Development Review (RDR)City Master Plans, Strategies, and Programs (MPSP)

The City shall assist businesses in developing and implementing commuter benefits programs (e.g., offers to provide discounted or subsidized transit passes, emergency ride home programs, participation in commuter rideshare programs, parking cash-out or parking pricing programs, or tax credits for bike commuters).

Joint Partnerships with the Private Sector (JP)

The City shall assist businesses in developing and implementing car and bike sharing programs, and shall encourage large employers (e.g., colleges, Hayward Unified School District (HUSD)) and the BART stations to host car and bike sharing programs available to the public.

Inter-governmental Coordination (IGC)Joint Partnerships with the Private Sector (JP)

The City shall encourage public-private transportation partnerships (e.g., car sharing companies) to establish programs and operations within the city to reduce single-occupant vehicle use.

Inter-governmental Coordination (IGC)Joint Partnerships with the Private Sector (JP)

The City shall implement the Alameda County Transportation Commission Travel Demand Management Element of the Congestion Management Program, which includes a checklist covering specific TDM strategies that the city could employ as part of its own TDM plan (e.g., preferential parking, car/van pools, casual car pools, subsidized transit passes).

Regulation and Development Review (RDR)City Master Plans, Strategies, and Programs (MPSP)

When making decisions about where to rent or build new City facilities, the City shall give preference to locations that are accessible to an existing public transit line or ensure that public transit links (e.g. bus lines) are extended to the new locations.

City Services and Operations (CSO)Inter-governmental Coordination (IGC)