TDM Marketing

Information and Encouragement Programs

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TDM Encyclopedia

Victoria Transport Policy Institute

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Updated 6 September 2019


This chapter describes TDM marketing programs and strategies, which investigate the types of transportation services people want, identify barriers to alternative modes, and promote use of efficient transport options.

 

“Information is as powerful as infrastructure.”

 

 

Description

Marketing involves determining consumer needs and preferences, creating appropriate products, providing useful information about products to consumers, and promoting their use. Public knowledge and attitudes have a major effect on travel behavior, so marketing is an important component of TDM implementation.

 

Marketing is more than simply advertising to promote a product or activity. It is an ongoing dialogue between producers and consumers. It involves Change Management, that is an effort to change the way problems are defined and solutions evaluated. The most effective TDM Marketing programs involve a variety of partners within a community, including public officials, community organizations and individuals who support transportation alternatives.

 

Below are specific TDM marketing activities:

 

·         Survey users and potential users of alternative modes to determine preferences, knowledge, barriers and opportunities for changing travel behavior and providing TDM services.

 

·         Targeted, personalized marketing campaigns, which identify consumers who are most able and willing to change their travel patterns and providing them with suitable incentives to try alternatives.

 

·         Programs oriented at households that are making home location decisions, that promote the personal and social benefits of choosing homes in more accessible, multi-modal, Location Efficient neighborhoods. Residents of such neighborhoods tend to own fewer motor vehicles, drive less, and rely more on resource-efficient modes, and as a result, save money and time, and reduce external impacts.

 

·         Educate public officials, businesses about TDM strategies they can implement.

 

·         Promote benefits and changing public attitudes about alternative modes. For example, promote alternatives modes as enjoyable, Healthy and Prestigious.

 

·         Produce a Multi-Modal Access Guide that provides concise information on how to access a particular destination by alternative modes.

 

·         Improve wayfinding (guidance for navigating around an area and through a transportation system), particularly for use of alternative modes (Gibson 2009).

 

·         Make alternative modes more Affordable, with appropriate Prices and discounts.

 

·         Identify and overcoming barriers to the use of alternative modes.

 

·         Encourage Transit ridership by making transit service convenient and attractive.

 

·         Provide travel training, which help people with disabilities and special needs learn to use public transportation services (Wolf-Branigin and Wolf-Branigin 2008).

 

·         Provide information that encourages people to compete to achieve travel change objectives, such as contests between individuals, businesses and communities (Cialdini 2001).

 

 

Given adequate resources, marketing programs can significantly increase use of alternative modes and reduce automobile travel, although there are limits to what marketing can accomplish by itself. Marketing cannot change every person or every trip, and can be counterproductive if alternative modes are inadequate. For example, advertising that encourages motorists to try transit will fail if transit service is inconvenient and unpleasant to use; travelers who try it will have a bad experience, give up, and tell their friends. Similarly, a commuter who tries cycling for the first time, but has no support, will be discouraged if they find it difficult and frightening, or have an accident or mechanical problems.

 

Effective marketing often requires delivering different messages to different types of people, with special emphasis on people who are most ready to change. For example, potential transit markets can be divided into people who wouldn’t use it, might use it, sometimes use it, and often use it. It is generally unrealistic to shift somebody from the “wouldn’t” into the “often” category, but a transit marketing campaign can provide messages and incentives to shift travelers one category at a time, so for example, people who currently would not ride transit are encouraged to consider it; people who are already considering it are given opportunities and incentives to try it occasionally; and people who currently use it occasionally are encouraged to use it more often.

 

Wouldn’t  =>  Might  =>  Sometimes  =>  Often

 

 

Travel patterns tend to experience regular turnover (also called churning) as people change income, jobs, homes, abilities, responsibilities and preferences. For example, during a particular year a portion of residents may naturally shift from automobile to public transit commuting, while others shift from public transit to driving, due to changes in their life conditions. Marketing programs should therefore target people when they are ready to change their travel patterns.

 

In most communities a portion of trips are responsive to TDM marketing. Consumer surveys indicates that a significant portion of travel is non-essential, and that a significant portion (typically 25-50%) of travelers would consider using travel alternatives and are interested in obtaining information about them. One survey found that out of 43 respondents, 19 report that they drive more than they need, and 34 report that they drive more than they want (Handy, Weston and Mokhtarian, 2005). Mustel (2004) surveyed Vancouver, BC motorists to determine the types of travel changes they consider most feasible, and the factors that would motivate travel shifts. Given the right combination of information, services and encouragement, a portion of automobile trips can be shifted.

 

Cialdini (2001) identifies several factors that can be used to support behavior change:

 

·         Commitment and Consistency - If people commit, orally or in writing, to an idea or goal, they are more likely to honor that commitment. Even if the original incentive or motivation is removed after they have already agreed, they will continue to honor the agreement.

 

·         Social Proof - People will do things that they see other people are doing. For example, in one experiment, one or more confederates would look up into the sky; bystanders would then look up into the sky to see what they were seeing.

 

·         Authority - People will tend to obey authority figures, even if they are asked to perform objectionable acts.

 

·         Liking - People are easily persuaded by other people that they like.

 

 

 

TDM Marketing programs should generally be ongoing so they provide continual support and encouragement, and respond to future opportunities and changes in individual’s travel needs and preferences. Travel patterns tend to reflect churning (continual turnover and change, sometimes in response to specific events such as changes in employment or home locations); for example, during a given year some people naturally shift from automobile to public transit, while others shift from public transit to automobile due to changes in their circumstances and preference. TDM Programs should take these natural changes into account, providing ongoing encouragement for shifts toward more efficient travel patterns.

 

Direct marketing programs, such as TravelSmart, are effective because they focus on the people who are ready to consider changing their travel habits, but need information and encouragement. People tend to develop established travel habits. As described by Goodwin (1997), “The traveller does not carefully and deliberately calculate anew each morning whether to go to work by car or by bus. Such deliberation is likely to occur only occasionally.” TDM marketing programs can help overcome this inertia in travel habits.  Programs that present alternatives in a positive way and convince people to try them may result in long-term changes.

 

Positive Statements

As much as possible, TDM Marketing should emphasize the potential benefits from more efficient transportation systems. For example, reduced driving and shifts to alternative modes can provide vehicle cost savings, reduced crash risk, and reduced stress to users. More walking and cycling provides health benefits. They also provide community benefits, such as reduced traffic congestion, increased safety, road and parking facility costs, and reduced pollution.

 

Transportation Demand Management is not a very good marketing term, particularly since the acronym (TDM) sounds like tedium. It reflects a planning and economic analysis perspective, but is not well understood by the general public. So what should we call what we do? The term Mobility Management is used in some regions, particularly in Europe, but for marketing purposes it is often best to emphasize the positive objectives, such as Travel Options, Mobility Choices and Transportation Efficiency.

 

 

People naturally tend to rationalize their current attitudes and behavior (Gilbert 2006); TDM Marketing requires that alternatives be presented as attractive and desirable, at least compared with alternatives. TDM Marketing should offer motorists many opportunities to try alternative modes, without requiring a major commitment. For example, a program might provide transit route information and a free transit pass to people who currently commute by automobile. Walking and cycling Encouragement programs often start with a short-term event, such as bike-to-work week. Once people try alternative modes and use them occasionally, marketing can encourage them to increase their use incrementally, for example, by Ridesharing twice a week, or using a bicycle for commuting and errands for a greater portion of the year.

 

Market research is an important part of effective marketing. This means using surveys and other market data to better understand consumer knowledge, needs, preferences, barriers and opportunities to change travel behavior (Cao and Mokhtarian, 2005). For example, Table 1 shows results from a survey of potential rideshare users (employees with regular commute schedules who currently drive more than 5 miles to work), indicting which incentives are most likely to cause them to shift to alternative modes. Such surveys need to be preformed for specific demographic groups and geographic locations.

 

Table 1            Market Survey (proprietary source)

What Would Help Entice You To Rideshare?

Portion of Respondents

Personalized help finding bus times and routes

2.9%

Bike parking

3.3%

On-site food or kitchen

4.1%

Lockers/showers

5.9%

More info about alternatives

5.9%

Personalized help forming ridesharing

6.1%

Priority parking for rideshare

6.2%

On-site services

8.1%

Payment in lieu of parking

15.6%

Other

16.3%

Transportation during breaks/lunch

16.3%

Employer provided car

17.9%

More frequent bus service at site

18.4%

Flexible work schedule to meet alternative schedule

20.2%

Guaranteed Ride Home

33.3%

Financial incentive

39.1%

 

 

Marketing tends to be most effective when it emphasizes positive benefits to participants from using alternative modes, including stress reductions and financial savings from reduced driving, and increased enjoyment and Health from active travel modes such as walking and cycling. Some studies show that many workers place a high value on having commute alternatives (Novaco and Collier, 1994).

 

Social Marketing

Social marketing refers to community-based programs to encourage more socially desirable behavior. Social marketing is effective at achieving behavior changes that people generally support but find difficult to make, such as actions that increase personal health or benefits neighbors. It helps people reconcile their actions with their beliefs, providing integrity and pride, as well as helping to solve specific personal and community problems.

 

There are many successful examples of social marketing, including increased use of seatbelts and child restraints, reduced excessive drinking, more balanced diets and reduced tobacco consumption. These involved a combination of education, persuasion and policy interventions that have changed the way people act.

 

Social marketing consists of these steps:

  1. Identify market to focus on, which may be everybody in an area, or a particular segment of the population that is particularly significant or likely to change.
  2. Identify barriers to the desired behavior.
  3. Develop multi-facetted strategy.
  4. Develop a pilot project to test the strategy.
  5. Based on results of the pilot, implement a full-scale program.
  6. Evaluate and improve the program.

 

Successful social marketing requires listening carefully to the audience through focus groups and surveys in order to understand their real attitudes and concerns. It identifies the costs of inaction and the benefits of change from users’ perspective, and helps people overcome barriers to desirable change.

 

A typical social marketing campaign to support TDM might include the following actions:

·         Identify travelers who are most likely to change. For example, a campaign might focus on commuters in a particular demographic and income category who work in a particular area.

·         Investigate consumer travel attitudes and preferences, potential benefits from alternative travel options (financial savings, reduced stress, sociability and fun, healthy exercise, community benefits such as reduced air pollution), and barriers to change.

·         Based on market surveys, develop programs that improve Transportation Options (such as better transit services, Rideshare services, improved walking conditions), provide incentives to users (such as Commuter Financial Incentives), and overcome barriers as perceived by users (such as stigma associated with the use of alternative modes).

·         Identify key attitudes, such as interest in fitness or pride in helping others that can be highlighted. For example, if personal health and fitness is a key consumer attitude, a campaign might emphasize the health problems that result if people continue their sedentary travel habits, and the user benefits from more physically-active travel modes.

·         Develop multi-faceted promotional materials, which may include press materials, media advertising, brochures, flyers, posters, and other strategies to convey messages. This can include information on:

o   What is available (walk, cycle, rideshare, transit, etc.).

o   Why alternatives are desirable (benefits to users and communities)

o   How to use alternatives (how to cycle, rideshare or ride transit).

o   Encouragement to try alternatives (“Try using transit tomorrow.”).

o   How to obtain support and additional information (websites, telephone numbers, etc.).

o   Reinforcement and validation to users (“When you ride transit, you help make our community a better place to live.”).

·         Start with a small pilot, improve it based on experience and feedback from users, and then expand the program.

·         Continually update the program based on participant feedback, and to keep it fresh, timely and interesting. Try new messages and promotional materials.

 

Resources:

Novartis Foundation Social Marketing (www.foundation.novartis.com/social_marketing.htm)

Social Marketing.Com (www.social-marketing.com)

Social Marketing Institute (www.social-marketing.org)

Social Marketing Network (www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/socialmarketing)

 

 

How it is Implemented

TDM marketing is usually implemented by government agencies or non-profit organizations as part of a comprehensive TDM Program or Commute Trip Reduction program. The Way-to-Go, Seattle! program’s Replicability Package (2003) provides detailed information on how to create and evaluate a program that encourages residents to reduce their automobile travel and use alternative modes.

 

Travel Impacts

Based on a detailed review, Spears, Boarnet and Handy (2013) conclude that well-managed voluntary travel behavior change programs typically reduce participant’s vehicle travel by 5% to 8%. Dill and Mohr (2010) found that the City of Portland’s SmartTrips program, which used individualized marketing to encourage residents to drive less and rely more on other modes, caused 8-12% reductions in automobile trips, with impacts that lasted at least two years (Dill and Mohr 2010). Vehicle travel reductions tend to be larger in more walkable neighborhood (Ma, Mulley and Liu 2017). Taniguchi (2006) found even larger travel reductions from “travel feedback programs” in Japan, with 50% increases in transit travel and 18% reductions in automobile travel among affected populations.

 

Table 2            Travel Impact Summary

Objective

Rating

Comments

Reduces total traffic.

2

Tends to increase TDM effectiveness.

Reduces peak period traffic.

2

Shifts peak to off-peak periods.

2

Shifts automobile travel to alternative modes.

2

Improves access, reduces the need for travel.

2

Increased ridesharing.

2

Increased public transit.

2

Increased cycling.

2

Increased walking.

2

Increased Telework.

2

Reduced freight traffic.

2

Rating from 3 (very beneficial) to –3 (very harmful). A 0 indicates no impact or mixed impacts.

 

 

Benefits And Costs

Marketing provides a foundation for specific TDM policies, programs and strategies. Benefits include increased understanding and appreciation of TDM, increased public support for TDM strategies, and increased effectiveness of TDM efforts. Costs are primarily associated with program expenses. Actual benefits, costs and effectiveness vary depending on circumstances, program design and its effectiveness. A study by Ker (2003) found that marketing programs typically provide financial paybacks of 1.0 years or less (plus additional benefits to society), indicating an excellent return on investment.

 

Table 3            Benefit Summary

Objective

Rating

Comments

Congestion Reduction

2

Tends to increase TDM effectiveness.

Road & Parking Savings

2

Consumer Savings

2

Transport Choice

2

Road Safety

2

Environmental Protection

2

Efficient Land Use

2

Community Livability

2

Rating from 3 (very beneficial) to –3 (very harmful). A 0 indicates no impact or mixed impacts.

 

 

Equity Impacts

TDM marketing can help increase equity by increasing public knowledge and acceptance of transportation alternatives, and creating more effective TDM programs. This tends to benefit lower-income and transportation disadvantaged people by improving their mobility options, increasing access for non-drivers, and reducing the stigma often associated with alternative modes. Actual equity impacts vary depending on circumstances and program design.

 

Table 4            Equity Summary

Criteria

Rating

Comments

Treats everybody equally.

1

Generally benefits all groups.

Individuals bear the costs they impose.

-1

Requires subsidy.

Progressive with respect to income.

2

Can improve travel choice and reduce stigma associated with alternative modes.

Benefits transportation disadvantaged.

2

Can improve travel choice and reduce stigma associated with alternative modes.

Improves basic mobility.

0

No significant impact.

Rating from 3 (very beneficial) to –3 (very harmful). A 0 indicates no impact or mixed impacts.

 

 

Applications

Can be implemented as part of any TDM program.

 

Table 5            Application Summary

Geographic

Rating

Organization

Rating

Large urban region.

3

Federal government.

2

High-density, urban.

3

State/provincial government.

2

Medium-density, urban/suburban.

3

Regional government.

3

Town.

3

Municipal/local government.

3

Low-density, rural.

2

Business Associations/TMA.

3

Commercial center.

3

Individual business.

3

Residential neighborhood.

2

Developer.

2

Resort/recreation area.

3

Neighborhood association.

2

 

 

Campus.

3

Ratings range from 0 (not appropriate) to 3 (very appropriate).

 

 

Category

TDM Program Support

 

 

Relationships With Other TDM Strategies

Effective marketing can increase the acceptability and effectiveness of most TDM strategies. It is often a component of TDM Programs, Commute Trip Reduction, Transportation Management Associations, Tourist Transport Management, Campus Transport Management and Multi-Modal Access Guides. It is important to incorporate Evaluation into marketing efforts.

 

 

Wit and Humor

A farmer sitting on his front porch patiently watches a city slicker driving his sports car down the dirt road, throwing up a tail of dust. A little latter he watches the same car zoom pass the other direction, and later still the car passes by again, then screeches to a stop, engulfing car, yard and porch in a dust cloud. The driver, clearly exasperated at being lost, rolls down his window and yells to the farmer, “How do I get to Midville?”

 

The farmer thinks it over, and after the dust begins to settle finally replies, “I’m afraid ya can’t get there from here.”

 

 

Stakeholders

Virtually all stakeholders can have a role in marketing, including federal, state, provincial, regional and local agencies, Transportation Management Associations and business associations, individual businesses, and non-governmental organizations.

 

 

Barriers To Implementation

Marketing programs depend primarily on support and funding from agencies or businesses.

 

 

Best Practices

References and organizations listed below provide specific information on how to develop successful TDM marketing programs. Below are some general suggestions.

 

·         Marketing programs should be developed in cooperation with all major stakeholders, including government agencies, business organizations, non-profit organizations, and participant groups.

 

·         Marketing should provide a clear and consistent message.

 

·         Marketing should emphasize positive benefits to participants, including increased enjoyment and health.

 

·         Give people many chances to try alternative modes. For example, a marketing program may offer a free transit pass and appropriate route information to commuters who currently drive, so they have an opportunity to try transit.

 

·         Marketing should offer useful information and resources (i.e., contacts for transit, rideshare, and carshare services, cycling safety tips, etc.).

 

·         Focus on achievable, incremental changes. For example, rather than expecting commuters to shift completely from driving to alternative modes, encourage them to use alternative modes one or two days a week, and then to increase this over time.

 

·         Marketing should only be implemented after TDM programs and services are operating effectively (it is counterproductive to promote TDM programs that give consumers an unsatisfactory experience, such as ineffective rideshare matching services).

 

·         Potential users should be surveyed regularly to identify their needs and preferences, to evaluate the acceptance and effectiveness of marketing efforts, and to identify ways to improve marketing.

 

·         All marketing materials should be reviewed by marketing specialists.

 

·         Program Evaluation should be incorporated into marketing efforts.

 

 

Marketing Public Transit - Peter Everett, Professor, Penn State University

Marketers of public transit have made heroic efforts to stem ridership loss. Surprisingly, among all the marketing variables tried, the one least used is the market position of “status”. Yet clear positioning is one of the prime ways a product or service can distinguish itself from the competition and motivate purchases.

Transit Suffers Poor Market Position. In the western world, much consumption is driven by status. Consumers commonly choose travel modes not only for function, but also for status. Yet since the 1960s, public transit has lost its position as a status mode of travel. Most of the failed attempts to recoup ridership on transit result from the confused and rejected market position into which public transit evolved over the past thirty years: transit in the U.S. today is a mode primarily for the transportation disadvantaged.

Repositioning Strategy. Efforts to reposition transit on the status continuum should be devoted to first attracting riders from social classes that others would like to emulate. This will require targeting the upscale suburban commuter, and providing premium and premium plus services.

With so many market segments in modern western cultures, repositioning efforts may ultimately entail multiple services, to give each segment status on parameters they feel appropriate, But two major points still stand:
* it is often not possible to mix services for different market segments (e.g., the transportation disadvantaged and the upscale commuter)
* status must be gleaned by consumers of a travel mode

Consumer Research Required. While the above points remain only premises and hypotheses, they adhere to respected psychological and marketing theory and practice. The first component of a real effort to reposition public transit would be consumer research. The second phase would be to radically redesign services on a route or segment of a selected city according to suggestions elicited from the consumer research.

There Are Many Barriers To These Repositioning Effort. They include: being labeled “elitist”; the economic and time commitments required to reposition transit; and the sheer dominance of the private automobile and plethora of low cost services provided for it.

 

 

Examples and Case Studies

DfT (2007) provides a comprehensive review of Personal Travel Planning case studies.

 

TravelSmart (www.travelsmart.gov.au/training/bigpic.html)  

TravelSmart is a community-based program that encourages people to use alternatives to travelling in their private car. It provides information, motivation and skills to help people choose alternatives to driving for personal travel. This is done through a programme called Individualised Marketing that reaches households through schools, businesses, local government and major destinations that run their own TravelSmart programs. TravelSmart also forms partnerships with environmental, health, cycling organizations and other organizations that have an interest in supporting travel alternatives.

 

The Perth Metropolitan Transport Strategy targets a 35% reduction in single-occupant-vehicle trips over the next 30 years. TravelSmart is a significant part of that strategy. TravelSmart research indicates that travellers have alternatives to driving for about 45% of all personal trips. Increasing the portion of these trips made by environmentally-friendly modes (walking, cycling, transit and tele-access) from 10% to 25% would achieve the Transport Strategy targets (Zhang, Stopher and Halling 2013).

 

This project was funded from capital funds under the concept of a “non-built” solution, based on Least Cost planning principles. It achieves an equal or better transportation benefits as an investment in physical infrastructure improvements. The Western Australian Department of Transport plans to expand the program to the entire city of Perth. If the objectives are realized, a 7% reduction in car travel across the whole region will be achieved at the cost of 2% of new main road construction for the same period. The project is estimated to have a benefit/cost ratio exceeding 13.

 

INSIDE TRACK; How to think people out of their vehicles

When 8,000 Perth households were helped to analyze their journeys, car use fell by 14 per cent with a shift to public transport and cycling.

Juliette Jowit, Financial Times, Sep 11, 2001

 

It sounds like a transport dream. A cheap and effective scheme that could cut traffic by 10 per cent or more within months. But in Australia it is reality. And the idea is now on trial in 15 European countries.

 

The concept, called “individualised marketing”, is simple. Households are contacted and offered advice about the journeys they make. If they are interested, they can get information and personalised timetables by post or a telephone hotline, or a home visit from a consultant who analyses the trips they make and suggests alternatives to the car.

 

Socialdata (www.socialdata.de), a German-based consultancy, claims to have developed the idea and spent 10 years looking for a guinea-pig before the government of Western Australia agreed to try it in Perth. An initial trial in 1997 of more than 800 households in South Perth showed a 10% drop in car journeys and vehicle miles, with a significant shift to public transport and cycling. Surveys a year later, and again 18 months after that, showed those gains were sustained.

 

Last year, Western Australia’s Department for Planning and Infrastructure extended the project to 8,000 households in South Perth, with even better results. Car journeys and mileage fell 14 per cent and walking, cycling and use of public transport rose again. Use of local shops and services increased, air pollution fell and bus companies collected enough extra fares to recoup the cost within three years.

 

The south Perth trial cost AUS$1.3m - including new bus stops in the suburbs, printed material and surveys - and took three months. That compares with the UK government’s 10-year transport plan, published last summer, which promised that in return for Pounds 180bn of private and public money, traffic would rise by 17% (admittedly, that is 5% less than what has been forecast without the plan.) Werner Brog, Social-data’s founder and managing director, explained the theory behind the individualised marketing project.

 

Socialdata found that only 20% of journeys in Perth were by “green modes” - public transport, walking and cycling. However, in potentially 60% of journeys, people either did not need their cars or had an adequate alternative. Then Socialdata asked why people did not leave their cars behind more often and found a big gap between perception and the reality of public transport, walking and cycling. Typically, people thought their journey would take twice as long as it did and would cost a third more than the real fare. Half of motorists with a viable alternative did not know about the individualised marketing service.

 

“There’s an alternative there,” says Mr. Brog, pointing outside to buses, cycle lanes and Tube stations, “but not there,” he says, jabbing at his head. “Transport planners want to fix that (pointing out of the window again) but we’d say it’s much easier to fix the head.”

 

It sounds almost too good to be true, which raises the question of why more towns, cities and regions are not pursuing the idea. As it stands, Western Australia plans to extend the scheme to all 600,000 residents of Perth, while elsewhere in the country, Brisbane is running a trial. Transport operators in Europe are talking to Socialdata about city-wide initiatives, says Mr. Brog. Socialdata is also exploring how individualised marketing can be used for energy, water, waste disposal and other applications.

 

However, before the transport scheme can spread, deep-rooted cultural and practical barriers will need to be overcome in many countries. Perhaps the biggest perceived threat, especially among politicians being asked to fund such projects, is a backlash from motorists who may see the scheme as “anti-car”.

 

But in Australia, the Department for Planning and Infrastructure collected seven files of positive feedback and not one letter of complaint, insists Bruce James, the department’s executive director metropolitan. The reason is that the approach is “not Stalinist” says Mr. Brog. People are not stopped from making journeys; they are never told to stop using their cars; and the project stresses how even tiny changes - say, one journey a week - can make a big difference.

 

“As soon as people hear what I do at a party they start saying ‘Do you know how far I have to travel to work? Do you know I have to make interchange four times?’ and so on,” says Mr. Brog. “I say, if that’s the case, use your car. But let’s look at where else you can use public transport.”

 

More subtly, another barrier is the long-standing assumption by transport engineers and planners that putting on more services and building new infrastructure is the solution to all problems. And the “boys with toys” approach has always chimed with the political attraction of opening new railways and roads. Individualised marketing can be complementary to investing in infrastructure, says Mr. Brog. But he hopes that, as more successful trials roll in, the balance will shift. Individualised marketing is more cost-effective, he believes. “We can better them hands down every time,” he insists.

 

Doubters should know that Perth - designed for cars and a massive 100km by 80km in size - was a highly testing trial area, says Mr. Brog. “The saying is if it works in Perth it works everywhere in the world,” he says.

 

 

Brisbane Individualised Marketing Trial Gets Ten Percent Mode Shift

A Brisbane trial of the individualised marketing approach to promotion of walking, cycling and public transport has achieved a 10 percent reduction in private vehicle use with an approximate benefit to cost ratio of 20:1. The pilot used the IndiMark technique which has also been successfully applied in Perth both as a pilot and on a larger scale. There are five key phases in the IndiMark process: contact and segmentation, motivation, information, convincing and system experience and evaluation.

 

The Brisbane pilot was applied in the Grange District a group of suburbs in the north of the city with a population of around 26,000 (10,000 households). The suburbs are relatively well serviced by public transport with four rail stops on one line and 17 bus services spread over three main routes.

 

Following completion of a Before Travel Survey (including a survey of a control group), 412 households were contacted and asked if they would like to find out more information on how they could meet some of their travel needs via sustainable modes. Of those contacted 29 percent were uninterested, 47 percent were interested, 16 percent already used sustainable modes but were interested in receiving more information and 8 percent were existing users and were uninterested in further information.

 

The motivation phase involved detailed discussions with those who requested further information to identify problems they had and their travel needs. A service sheet allowed householders to select the exact information they wanted to receive.

 

In the information phase only the material specifically ordered was provided and all material was hand delivered. No general information, marketing or media campaigns on sustainable modes or their benefits were carried out in the pilot area at the same time as the trial was running.

 

The convincing phase involved home visits to discuss in detail the possible mode changes with those who had indicated the need for this level of support. In addition, a small number of households who were interested in swapping to a sustainable mode and did not already use public transport were given a one month system experience ticket for bus or rail.

 

The final phase, evaluation, involved another travel survey, again including the control group. The results indicated there had been a 10 percent reduction in vehicle trips, which roughly equates to one return trip per week per person by either public transport, walking or cycling.

 

The approximate benefit to cost ratio of 20:1 covered the benefits of reduced road congestion and car operating costs and, to a lesser extent, environmental externalities and public transport revenue. A number of other benefits would be particularly noticeable if IndiMark was implemented on a larger scale. A 10 percent reduction in congestion would reduce travel times by greater than 10 percent during peak times. There would be a reduced need for capital and maintenance expenditure on new and widened road corridors, as well as reduced private expenditure on fuel. Socially, a 10 percent reduction in crash rates and improvements in health and fitness due to exercise could be expected. Finally, environmentally, the reduced travel demand and consequent reduction in fuel use and exhaust pollutants would lead to improvements in local and regional air quality and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and noise.

 

Sustainable Travel Towns (Sloman, et al., 2010)

Darlington, Peterborough and Worcester are typical medium-sized English towns. Following a competition, they were designated Sustainable Travel Towns, and so were able to invest £15 million in measures to reduce car use from 2004 to 2009. Baseline surveys in 2004 showed strong public support for more sustainable transport policies. Each town developed its own programme, including personal travel plans, walking and cycling promotion, public transport marketing, plus workplace and school travel plans.

 

Detailed travel surveys were performed in 2004 and 2008 and compared with data from comparable size towns from the National Travel Survey (NTS) and traffic counts from the National Road Traffic Estimates (NRTE). The analyses gave the following results:

 

·         Car use: Car driver trips declined 9% per person, and car driver distance by 5%~7% for the three towns. This compares with a decline of about 1% in other medium-sized urban areas over the same period.

 

·         Bus use: Bus trips per person grew substantially, by 10%~22%, compared with a national fall of 0.5% in medium-sized towns. The bus growth primarily occurred in Peterborough and Worcester, with a less positive trend in Darlington (in part due to the nature of competition between two operators in that town).

 

 

·         Cycling: The number of cycle trips per person grew substantially in all three towns, by 26%~30%. Darlington (which was also a Cycling Demonstration Town) showed the greatest growth. Meanwhile, cycle trips declined in medium-sized towns elsewhere.

 

·         Walking: The number of walking trips per person grew substantially, by 10%~13%, compared to a national decline in similar towns.

 

·         While the reduction in the number of car trips per head was proportionately greatest for short trips, the biggest reduction in car distance travelled (hence traffic) was from medium-length and longer trips.

 

·         There were indications of complex behaviour change, involving transfers between modes, changes of destinations and changes in trip numbers, not all of which can be fully analysed with the available data.

 

·         The biggest reduction in car driver distance came from changes to leisure trips, then shopping and work-related business. This pattern was consistent with the relatively low emphasis on work-trips in the interventions chosen.

 

·         The biggest falls in car driver mode share appear to have been among groups either at a point of change in their lives (at college, looking for work, or recently retired) or on a reduced income. There was a smaller per head reduction in car trips by those in full-time work, though this still constituted 40% of the total reduction.

 

 

Assessment of Success

Overall, the Smarter Choice Programmes in the towns contributed positively to objectives of supporting economic growth, reducing carbon emissions, increasing health, promoting equality of opportunity, and improving quality of life.

 

The programme costs averaged £11 annually per person per year or about 4 pence per car kilometre removed. Considering just congestion reduction benefits, this indicates a 4.5 benefit/cost ratio. Including environmental, consumer-benefit and health effects using Department for Transport values would approximately double this benefit value. This provides sufficient evidence to justify substantial expansion of Smarter Choice Programmes.

 

 

Green Marketing (www.green-engage.co.uk/PaintingtheTownGreen.pdf)

Marketing expert Stephen Hounsham offers the following recommendations for better marketing environmental actions to the general public.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fremantle Travel Smart Program (www.dpi.wa.gov.au/travelsmart)

As a result of participating in the Western Australia Travel Smart program, Fremantle residents have reduced the number of car trips by 12% and the number of kilometres by 14%. They also increased the number of walking trips by 25%, cycling trips by 38%, and public transit trips by 13%.

 

 

TravelSmart, Portland (www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=36370)

The City of Portland and TriMet have partnered to test a social marketing program to encourage the use of environmentally friendly travel modes. The TravelSmart program identifies individuals who want to change the way they travel, motivates them to think about their travel options and provides them with information about how to use transit, bike, walk or carpool for some of their trips. This approach has proven effective in many cities in Europe, Australia, and now in North America. The program was particularly successful with off-peak, discretionary trips. TravelSmart Portland was launched September 2002.

 

The before travel survey provided detailed information about travel behavior in the pilot area. There was a 65% response rate to a mail-back travel diary sent to 1,200 randomly selected households. The survey found that 64% of the trips in the target area are by people driving alone in their cars, 10% are walking, 5% are public transit, and 1% are bike trips. The remaining 19% are trips by passengers in cars. Many people are surprised that work trips make up such a small percentage of overall trips. Work trips and work related trips make up only 25% of all trips on the test pilot area. The large majority of people’s trips are for shopping or for leisure activities-56%. This is a large number of trips that allow some flexibility in choosing to walk, bike or use transit.

 

Most interesting is trip distance. Of all trips from Multnomah Hillsdale, 12% are less than a half mile and 22% are less than one mile. Almost half of all trips (46%) are less than 3 miles. Car trips account for 39% of all trips under 3 miles and 15% under one mile. Most people are willing to walk a half-mile and many are willing to walk a mile. There is clearly a potential for shifting some of these car trips to walking or cycling.

 

The first 600 households responding to the baseline travel survey were included in the next phase, Individualized Marketing. These households were segmented based upon their responses. About 41% of SW Portlanders were interested in finding out more about transportation options. They received the information they needed, either by mail, telephone, or personal at-home visits. People already using environmentally friendly modes (26%) were given a small reward. The remaining 33% who didn’t want to participate weren’t contacted again. The segmentation closely matches that of households in the Perth project.

 

Table 6                        Survey Results

 

Households Total

Percentages

“Interested”

246

41%

“Already Using Alternatives”

156

26%

“Not Interested”

198

33%

HH Total

600

100%

 

 

This program resulted in 9% less car travel and an 8% increase in walking, cycling, and public transit. These figures represent a 12% reduction in vehicle miles traveled. Residents’ changes in travel behavior have been shown to be sustained one year after the initial marketing efforts. Furthermore the data indicated that these results were achieved without affecting people's overall mobility in terms of their activities outside the home, travel time and number of trips per day.

 

When compared to other pilot projects using individualized marketing techniques in Europe and Australia, Portland has the highest percentage of trips by car. Despite the high rate of car travel in the Portland pilot, the reduction in car travel achieved is very similar to the other projects. The results support the use of TravelSmart, or individualized marketing, as an effective strategy to increase environmentally friendly modes of travel and reduce car travel.

 

 

Seattle Way-To-Go Household Car Reduction Program (www.cityofseattle.net/waytogo)

Way to Go, Seattle is a new initiative to show people they can save money and make their communities more livable by making more conscious transportation choices, just as they do now with recycling and water conservation.

 

During summer 2001, 23 Seattle families completed a Way to Go pilot program to see if people could get along without their extra car for six weeks. The results are impressive. At least four families liked it so much that they’re selling the car. Some families didn’t need to participate in the program to be convinced. By determining the cost of owning their car on the City’s website, they sold their extra car without evening participating in the program!

 

“We can all take small steps to improve our transportation system,” said Mayor Paul Schell. “These families have proven that we can make choices about how to get around and enjoy spending less time in our cars.”

 

All the families in the study saved money, and most saved about $64 per week. The all found they could get around on transit, walking, bicycling and taking taxis when needed for about $21 a week, far less than the $85 per week cost of an average second car. Most families tell us they will continue to take the bus or ride their bike, and think about whether they need to drive to where they want to go.

 

“We hope more people will see they don’t need that extra car,” said Jamae Hoffman, project manager. “Families making smart decisions about transportation can cut down on vehicle trips, congestion, gasoline use and, of course, air pollution.”

 

The best experience for Richard Kielbowitz and Linda Lawson of the Hawthorne Hills neighborhood was “watching the price of gas rise for other people”. “When we heard reports of traffic jams, we counted our blessings that we were not caught up in them,” they said. After participating in the program, Kielbowitz and Lawson sold their second car.

 

“Before I would have driven north for movies and shopping. Now, I head downtown on the bus,” said Lori Goodwin of the Queen Anne neighborhood. “It was a fun experience. Same movies, same shopping, but it was wonderful not to have to deal with a huge parking lot.”

 

Seattle’s Strategic Planning Office paid the participating families $85 per week for keeping a daily dairy of their transportation activities and expenses during the six weeks they did not use their extra cars. Families were able to use the $85, the national average cost of owning and operating a second car, for bus fares, joining a Carsharing service, or taxi when needed. Most families spent only about $21 getting around without a car, saving an average of $49 per week. As a result the 23 families made nearly 200 fewer car weekly trips totaling 1,260 miles of travel avoided.

 

The One-Less-Car Study was conducted in three rounds during 2000, 2001, and 2002, and engaged a total of 86 Seattle households in living with 'one-less-car' for either six or nine weeks while keeping detailed trip diaries showing their changing travel choices. During just these few short weeks of having 'one-less-car' to use, participant households made 8,003 fewer car trips which resulted in 41,463 fewer miles of neighborhood traffic and 30,198 pounds less of carbon dioxide emitted in our atmosphere. The families demonstrated that every type of household (such as those with and without children, etc.) in a variety of Seattle's neighborhoods can get where they need to go with 'one-less-car' while saving money and reducing stress.

 

The One-Less-Car Demonstration Study online Replicability Package (www.seattle.gov/waytogo/replicabilitypackage.htm) has all that is needed to conduct a study and start realizing the benefits of smarter transportation choices. The package contains the reports and products that will allow you to understand the rationale, methods, and outcomes of the "One-Less-Car" Project, including data analysis reports, all the worksheets and forms, and the Final Report with a step-by-step narrative of how Seattle did it. Over twenty cities and organizations have requested information on the study and how to start their own version.

 

The One-Less-Car Demonstration Study is part of the Way to Go, Seattle! family of programs aimed at helping Seattle to make the most of its transportation system and provide more transportation choices. It was designed to show people that they could save money and make their communities more livable by making more conscious transportation choices. Way to Go, Seattle! strives to find creative and innovative ways to reduce demand on the transportation network, a practice commonly referred to as Transportation Demand Management.

 

 

Commuter Choice Marketing Program (www.commuterchoice.com)

Commuter Choice is a U.S. program that encourage employers to offer Commute Trip Reduction programs and Incentives. It emphasizes the benefits of such programs to employers, employees and communities, and provides a variety of resources and support services. Like any other product, Commuter Choice relies on marketing initiatives to successfully reach its audience, including employers, commuters and others. The Cooperative Commuter Choice Marketing Initiative has developed a variety of materials and model advertisements to promote transportation alternatives.

·         Community-wide marketing & education campaigns.

·         Employer materials promoting commuting choices and benefits.

·         Educational materials relating to the costs and benefits of commuting choices.

·         Promotional events or programs to try commuting choices.

·         Testimonials from satisfied customers.

 

 

Individualized Marketing in U.S. Cities (www.fta.dot.gov/initiatives_tech_assistance/technology/15791_ENG_HTML.htm)

The US Federal Transit Administration commissioned individualized marketing pilot projects in four US cities (Bellingham, Washington State; Sacramento city, California; Durham, North Carolina and Cleveland, Ohio) to test the effectiveness of individualised marketing in increasing public transport use. These cities were chosen because each exhibited different socio-demographic and cultural profiles, urban densities, population sizes, and public transport patronage trends. Public transport use within targeted communities increased between 14% to 43%. The number of walking and cycling trips also rose across each of the four target communities. When averaged across the four pilots, participants drove 4.5% less leading to an average 6.75% reduction in vehicle miles travelled. All results are based on comparison with a control population.

 

Table 7            Travel Changes From Marketing Program in U.S. Cities (FTA, 2006)

 

Bellingham

 Sacramento

Durham

Cleveland

Car (as driver)

-8%

-2%

-7%

-4%

Car (as passenger)

10%

1%

7%

5%

Walking

35%

15%

15%

13%

Cycling

13%

30%

25%

22%

Public Transit

14%

43%

35%

26%

Vehicle miles reduced

4%

4%

11%

8%

 

 

Marketing Effective Speed (Tranter and May, 2005)

Researchers Tranter and May (2005) examine the potential use of the effective speed concept to stimulate travel behaviour change. Effective speed reflects the total time devoted to a particular form of transport, including time actually devoted to travel and time devoted to earning money to pay for it. Effective speed analysis recognizes that faster but more costly modes, such as driving, are sometimes less time efficient overall. Effective speed could have useful applications in mobility management marketing to help people to reconsider the perceived advantages of automobile travel over slower but lower cost modes.

 

Table 8 indicates the estimated effective speed of various vehicles. This analysis indicates that public transit and cycling often have higher effective speeds than driving, particularly for more costly automobiles. Of course, actual costs will vary depending on individual factors, including actual income, costs, travel speeds and annual mileage.

 

Table 8            Effective Speed (Tranter and May 2005)

 

Luxury Car

Sport Utility Vehicle

Average Car

Economy Car

Public Transit

Bicycle

Annualized costs (Aus$)

$14,161

$17,367

$9,753

$5,857

$966

$500

Hours worked to pay costs*

644

790

444

266

44

23

Average travel speed (km/hr)

45

45

45

45

2

20

Hours of travel time

333

333

333

333

600

750

Support activity time (walking to vehicle, maintenance, etc.)

51

51

50

51

60

55

Total time

1,028

1,174

827

650

704

828

Effective speed (km/hr)

14.6

12.8

18.1

23.1

21.3

18.1

This table compares the estimated effective speed of various vehicles. Lower-speed modes, such as public transit and cycling, often have higher effective speeds than driving.

* Assumes $40,100 annual income.

 

 

A coordinated and integrated communications campaign could optimise the promotion of the effective speed idea. This would involve in part, an extended media program over a period of several years in order to achieve changes in people’s perceptions. Such a campaign would be part of a package encompassing social marketing and the expansion of travel behaviour change programs, leadership from politicians, and the presence of appropriate price signals.

 

 

Building Community Support For Public Transit

The report, Understanding How to Motivate Communities to Support and Ride Public Transportation (TRB, 2008) identifies ways to enhance the public image and increase community support for public transportation. It examines the perceptions, misperceptions, and use of public transit, and the extent to which these affect support. It identifies methods used by other industries (comparable to public transportation) to enhance their public image and to motivate support for their products and services. It recommends appropriate communication strategies, campaigns, and platforms for motivating individuals to action in support of public transportation, as well as ways to execute those communication strategies, campaigns, and platforms.

 

 

Whatcom Smart Trips (www.whatcomsmarttrips.org)

Whatcom Smart Trips is a partnership between local government, public agencies, employers, and schools to promote walking, bicycling, ridesharing and public transport that substitutes for automobile travel. The organization provides information and support services, such as a Guaranteed Ride Home. Participants record their “smart trips” at the organization website, which qualifies them for discount cards and prizes.

 

 

Vancouver TravelSmart Program (www.tc.gc.ca/Programs/Environment/utsp/travelsmart.htm)

TravelSmart is an innovative personal transportation marketing program that encourages people to change their personal travel behaviour and increase their use of more sustainable travel modes (i.e. public transit, ridesharing, bicycling and walking) through a combination of personalized information, incentives and rewards.

 

It was piloted in six neighbourhoods located in the inner, middle and outer rings of the Vancouver, British Columbia metropolitan region, each with varying degrees of access to transit and other travel options. A “before” survey was conducted to identify individuals interested in participating in the program and to establish baseline travel behaviour conditions. After the program was completed an “after” survey assessed TravelSmart-related behaviour changes. Control groups were used in both surveys to isolate the impact of any external factors.

 

The 13 month pilot project ended in November 2006 with more than 600 people participating through all of the stages in each of the six pilot communities. Program results indicate that use of more sustainable modes of transportation increased substantially with TravelSmart participants. Walking and public transit use increased by 9% and 12%, respectively, while car trips declined by 8%.

 

 

Nudging Downtown Durham Travel (https://bit.ly/2CTxlYK)

Durham, North Carolina had a modest goal: to cut down single-person vehicle trips into the city’s core by 5%. The city emailed personalized route maps from individuals’ home to work addresses (which participants provided by opting in) that showed routes by bike, a GoDurham bus, and walking, compared to driving. The emails also included trip time comparisons and listed the potential benefits of alternatives to solo driving, including weight loss potential, gas money savings, and the time commuters could reclaim from the city’s infamous traffic. The results exceeded the original goal. The share of commuters who reported driving to work alone was 12% lower among those who received the alternate commute maps than those who didn’t, according to post-mortem participant surveys. And the solo-driving share dropped by 16% among those who received the maps and took transit for prizes. Overall, the incentives cut back single-driver vehicle trips among the participants by more than five%.

 

Smart Trips Welcome (www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/43801)

With an average of 15% of the U.S. population moving each year, new residents represent a significant portion of urban dwellers. In response, Portland’s Smart Trips program individualized marketing efforts designed to help new residents develop environmentally-friendly and active transportation habits. As a result, the city's new residents took 10% fewer drive-alone trips and the proportion of their trips taken by green and active methods increased by 14%. This comprehensive approach includes a strong evaluation design and targeted social marketing strategies.

 

Wayfinding Plan (IMAP 2007)

The Inner Melbourne Action Plan includes development of a consistent wayfinding signage system to help transportation system users see that the Inner Melbourne Region is accessible throughout by walking, cycling and public transport. Current wayfinding signage is fragmented and variable, and many inter-precinct walking routes are not signed for pedestrians. This project will a family of user-friendly wayfinding sings that show people the integrated “web” of sustainable transport links throughout the Region. This project:

·         Identifies a hierarchy of signs that provide both regional and local wayfinding information in a consistent format across the Region.

·         Identifies the regional and local pedestrian and public transport route system.

·         Identifies regional and local signage locations.

·         Develops a detailed signage plan, based on the research undertaken for 1-3 above, for a “demonstration project” within the Region, showing where each type of sign should be located within the demonstration project area.

 

 

Marketing Public Transit Oriented Housing To Students (Taniguchi, et al. 2014)

A study tested the effects of targeted communication University of Tsukuba, Japan, students who were in the process of changing their residential location. These students were randomly assigned to four groups: the first group was a control group; the second group received an information brochure about apartment flats typically used by students in Tsukuba city; the third group received a brochure identical to the one given to the second group, except that it also included information about the level of bus service for each flat; and the fourth group was provided with a leaflet that provided motivation for choosing Public Transit Oriented Residence (PTOR). After five months there was a significant difference between the groups: PTOR selection was twice as high for the third and fourth groups, which were given information and encouragement to choose transit-oriented housing, as for the control group. Additionally, the target groups’ frequency of bus use from home or the university was significantly high compared with the control group.

 

 

In Motion (www.kingcounty.gov/transportation/kcdot/MetroTransit/InMotion.aspx)

In Motion is a sponsored by King County (Seattle, Washington) Metro Transit and local communities to encourage residents to use healthier travel options like the bus, carpooling, bicycling and walking. It provides information and community-based resources to help residents use efficient travel options, including the In Motion Tool Kit: Helping More People Drive Less. The program and its impact have been well documented.

 

 

Wit and Humor

Two shoe salespeople were dispatched by their company to a remote village. In a few days the head office receives telegrams from each.

One reads “Let me return home – no one here wears shoes!”

The other reads “Send more inventory – no one here owns shoes!”

 

 

References and Resources for More Information

 

Tony Arnold (2017), Framework for Cycling Communications, Australian Bicycle Council (www.bicyclecouncil.com.au); at www.bicyclecouncil.com.au/files/publication/ABC_FrameworkForCyclingCommunications.pdf.

 

Ethan Arpi (2009), Transit Agencies Need to Invest in Marketing: A Lesson from Los Angeles, The City Fix (http://thecityfix.com); at http://thecityfix.com/blog/transit-agencies-need-to-invest-in-marketing-a-lesson-from-los-angeles.

 

Association for Commuter Transportation (www.actweb.org) is a non-profit organization supporting TDM programs.

 

Louise Baker (2013), A Travel Demand Management Digital Safari, IPENZ Transportation Group Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand; at https://bit.ly/2HGaDqu.

 

Laura Bliss (2019), Durham’s Plan to ‘Nudge’ Drivers Out of Cars, City Lab (www.citylab.com); at www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/10/durhams-plan-to-nudge-drivers-out-of-cars/574264.

 

Sally Cairns, et al (2004), Smarter Choices - Changing the Way We Travel, UK Department for Transport (www.dft.gov.uk); at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1224/1/1224.pdf.

 

Alasdair Cain, Jennifer Flynn, and Mike McCourt (2009), Quantifying the Importance of Image and Perception to Bus Rapid Transit, National Center for Transit Research (www.nctr.usf.edu) for the Federal Transit Administration: at www.nbrti.org/docs/pdf/NBRTI%20-%20BRT%20Image%20Study%20-%20March%202009_Final%20Draft_highres.pdf.

 

Xinyu Cao and Patricia L. Mokhtarian (2005), “How Do Individuals Adapt Their Personal Travel? Objective and Subjective Influences on the Consideration of Travel-related Strategies for San Francisco Bay Area Commuters,” Transport Policy, Vol. 12, No. 4 (www.elsevier.com/locate/transpol), pp. 291-302.

 

Center for Urban Transportation Research (www.cutr.usf.edu) provides TDM materials and classes and publishes TMA Clearinghouse Quarterly.

 

Robert Cialdini (2001), “The Science of Persuasion,” Scientific American, Vol. 284, February, pp. 76-81; also see www.influenceatwork.com.

 

Community Based Social Marketing Website (www.cbsm.com), provides information on social marketing techniques and resources.

 

Jim Conley and Arlene Tigar McLaren, eds. (2009), Car Troubles: Critical Studies of Automobility and Auto-Mobility, Ashgate (www.ashgate.com); Introduction at www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Car_Troubles_Intro.pdf.

 

Jennifer Dill and Cynthia Mohr (2010), Long-Term Evaluation of Individualized Marketing Programs for Travel Demand Management, Portland State University (http://nitc.trec.pdx.edu) at http://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/research/project/160.

 

EMBARQ (2011), From Here to There: A Creative Guide to Making Public Transport the Way to Go, EMBARQ: The World Resources Institute’s Center for Sustainable Transport (www.wri.org/project/embarq); at www.embarq.org/sites/default/files/EMB2011_From%20Here%20to%20There_web.pdf

 

Satoshi Fujii and Ayako Taniguchi (2006), “Determinants of the Effectiveness of Travel Feedback Programs—A Review Of Communicative Mobility Management Measures For Changing Travel Behaviour In Japan,” Transport Policy (www.elsevier.com/locate/tranpol), Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 339-348.

 

Birgitta Gaterslbgen and Katherine M. Appleton (2007), “Contemplating Cycling to Work: Attitudes and Perceptions in Different Stages of Change,” Transportation Research, Vol. 41, Issue 4 (www.elsevier.com/locate/tra), May, pp. 302-312.

 

David Gibson (2009), The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places, Princeton Architectural Press.

 

Daniel Gilbert (2006), Stumbling on Happiness, Vintage Press.

 

Phil Goodwin (1997), “Habit and Hysteresis in Mode Choice,” Urban Studies, Vo. 14, pp. 95-98.

 

J.W. Guiver (2007), “Modal Talk: Discourse Analysis of How People Talk About Bus and Car Travel,” Transportation Research Record A, Vol. 41, Issue 3 (www.elsevier.com/locate/tra), March 2007, pp. 233-248.

 

Susan Handy, Lisa Weston and Patricia L. Mokhtarian (2005), “Driving By Choice or Necessity?” Transportation Research, Vol. 39A, Issues 2-3 (www.elsevier.com/locate/tra), Feb/Mar., 183-203.

 

IMAP (2007), Inner Melbourne Wayfinding Signage, Inner Melbourne Action Plan (http://imap.vic.gov.au); at https://bit.ly/2qT4IE9.

 

ITP (2007), Making Personal Travel Planning Work: Research Report, Integrated Transport Planning Ltd for the Department for Transport (www.dft.gov.uk).

 

Google Transit Trip Planner (www.google.com/transit) provides public transit route planning and schedule information in participating cities.

 

Green Lane Program (www.ec.gc.ca/emission/5-1e.html) by Environment Canada promotes TDM and other strategies for reducing transportation environmental impacts.

 

Stephen Hounsham (2006), Painting the Town Green: How to Persuade People to be Environmentally Friendly, A Report For Everyone Involved In Promoting Greener Lifestyles To The Public, Green-Engage Communications (www.green-engage.co.uk); at www.green-engage.co.uk/PaintingtheTownGreen.pdf.

 

ILT (2001), Public Transport Information Websites: How to Get it Right - A Best Practice Guide, Institute of Logistics and Transport (www.trg.soton.ac.uk/bpg/index.htm). This 129-page document sets out the do’s and don’ts of presenting public transport information on the web. It is based on a review of over 50 sites in the UK and overseas.

 

Eric Jaffe (2014), Cutting Car Reliance, One Trip at a Time, Atlantic Cities (www.theatlanticcities.com); at www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/04/cutting-car-reliance-one-trip-time-seattle/8822.

 

Jerald Jariyasunant, et al. (2013), “Quantified Traveler: Travel Feedback Meets the Cloud to Change Behavior,” Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 109–124 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15472450.2013. 856714); summarized at www.accessmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2015/11/access47.1sengupta.pdf.

 

Ian Ker (2003), Travel Demand Management: Public Transport Business Case, AARB Transport Research, RC5051, TravelSmart Program (www.travelsmart.vic.gov.au).

 

Johnathan Levine, Daniel Rodríguez, Jumin Song and Asha Weinstein (2006), Can Consumer Information Tighten The Transportation/ Land-Use Link? A Simulation Experiment, Mineta Transportation Institute (www.transweb.sjsu.edu); at http://transweb.sjsu.edu/MTIportal/research/publications/documents/05-03/MTI-05-03-TranspLandUseLink.pdf.

 

Todd Litman (2009), “Mobility as a Positional Good: Implications for Transport Policy and Planning,” Car Troubles: Critical Studies of Automobility and Auto-Mobility (Jim Conley and Arlene Tigar McLaren eds), Ashgate (www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754677727); Introduction at www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Car_Troubles_Intro.pdf; updated version at www.vtpi.org/prestige.pdf.

 

Liang Ma, Corinne Mulley and Wen Liu (2017), Social Marketing and the Built Environment: What Matters for Travel Behaviour Change?” Transportation, Vol. 44/5, pp. 1147–1167 (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11116-016-9698-2).

 

Marketing Research Association (www.mra-net.org) is a professional organization for the opinion and marketing research industry.

 

MC ICAM (Implementation of Marginal Cost Pricing in Transport - Integrated Conceptual and Applied Model Analysis) (http://vplno1.vkw.tu-dresden.de/psycho/projekte/mcicam/e_mcicam.html), a program at the Traffic and Transportation Psychology department at the Dresden University of Technology (www.verkehrspsychologie-dresden.de) explores issues related to the problems and opportunities of implementing more efficient transportation pricing.

 

MetroPool (www.metropool.com) delivers transportation demand management employers and commuters in the Connecticut and New York regions.

 

Kate Myers (2005), Travel Behaviour Change Initiatives: A Local Government’s Innovations, City of Darebin, Melbourne, Australia, presented at the 28th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Travel Smart Program (www.travelsmart.vic.gov.au); at http://atrf.info/papers/2005/2005_Myers.pdf.

 

John Muhlhausen (2005), Wayfinding is Not Signage: Signage Plays an Important Part of Wayfinding – But There's More, (www.signweb.com/ada/cont/wayfinding0800.html).

 

Mustel (2004), Interest in Viable Transportation Options among Private Vehicle Drivers, TransLink and the British Columbia Automobile Association, (www.translink.bc.ca); at www.translink.bc.ca/files/polls_surveys/cust_satisfaction/Report_BCAA_GVTA_Travel_Choices_Quantitative_Nov2004.pdf.

 

NCTR (2004), Worksite Trip Reduction Model and Manual, National Center for Transit Research, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of Florida. April 2004. www.nctr.usf.edu/pdf/473-14.pdf.

 

NextBus (www.nextbus.com) is a private company that uses Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to provide real-time transit vehicle arrival information to passengers and managers in various North American cities.

 

Raymond Novaco and Cheryl Collier (1994), Commuting Stress, Ridesharing, and Gender: Analyses from the 1993 State of the Commute Study in Southern California, University of California Transportation Center (Berkeley), Working Paper #208 (www.uctc.net).

 

Raymond Novaco, Wendy Kliewer and Alexander Broquet (1991), Home Environment Consequences of Commute Travel Impedance, University of California Transportation Center (www.uctc.net); at www.uctc.net/papers/077.pdf.  

 

Noxon Associates (2008), The Case for TDM In Canada: Transportation Demand Management Initiatives and Their Benefits – A Handbook for Practitioners, Association for Commuter Transportation of Canada (www.actcanada.com); at www.actcanada.com/EN/Downloads/Case%20for%20TDM%20in%20Canada%20FINAL%20October%202008.pdf.

 

NRG (2007), King County Metro 2006 Rider / Non-Rider Survey Final Report. Northwest Research Group for King County Metro.

 

Oil-Smart Campaign (www.wsdot.wa.gov/smartmoves), sponsored by the Bullitt Foundation and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

 

Pew (2006), Americans and Their Cars: Is the Romance on the Skids? Fewer Americans like to drive, survey shows, Pew Research Center (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/316/americans-and-their-cars-is-the-romance-on-the-skids).

 

PRR (2004), Travel Behavior Barriers and Benefits Research, Portland Regional Metro (www.metro-region.org).

 

Geoff Rose and Elizabeth Ampt (2003), “Travel Behavior Change Through Individual Engagement,” Handbook of Transport and the Environment, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), pp. 725-737.

 

Michael Roth (2003), Overcoming Obstacles of Car Culture: Promoting an Alternative to Car Dependence Instead of another Travel Mode, UITP International Marketing Conference (Paris), International Association of Public Transport (www.uitp.com); at www.vtpi.org/roth.pdf.

 

Jens Schade, The Acceptability of Travel Demand Management Measures, research project by Traffic and Transportation Psychology (www.verkehrspsychologie-dresden.de) at Dresden University of Technology.

 

Lynn Sloman, et al. (2010), The Effects of Smarter Choice Programmes in the Sustainable Travel Towns: Summary Report, Report to the Department for Transport (www.dft.gov.uk); at https://bit.ly/2HbmStV.

 

Martin Smith and Damian Price (2015), “Transport Mobility Management: Building Momentum, Achieving Success,” Journeys, May, pp. 38-48; at www.lta.gov.sg/ltaacademy/LA-I13Journeys_May2015.htm.

 

Steven Spears, Marlon G. Boarnet and Susan Handy (2013), Policy Brief on the Impacts of Voluntary Travel Behavior Change Programs Based on a Review of the Empirical Literature, for Research on Impacts of Transportation and Land Use-Related Policies, California Air Resources Board (http://arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/policies/policies.htm).

 

Stephen G. Stradling, Jillian Anable and Michael Carreno (2007), “Performance, Importance And User Disgruntlement: A Six-Step Method For Measuring Satisfaction With Travel Modes,” Transportation Research A, Vol. 41, No. 1 (www.elsevier.com/locate/tra), Jan. 2007, pp. 98-106.

 

A. Taniguchi, et al. (2014), “Persuasive Communication Aimed at Public Transportation-Oriented Residential Choice and the Promotion of Public Transport,” Transportation, Vol. 41, Is. 1, pp 75-89; summary at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11116-013-9472-7.

 

TAPESTRY (www.eu-tapestry.org) is a research project to develop better communication programmes and campaigns that encourage sustainable travel behaviour.

 

Michael A. P. Taylor (2007), “Voluntary Travel Behavior Change Programs In Australia: The Carrot Rather Than the Stick in Travel Demand Management,” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Vol. 1, No. 3 (www.tandf.co.uk), July-Sept 2007, pp. 173-192; at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15568310601092005.

 

Jean Taylor, Matt Barnard, Hayley Neil and Chris Creegan (2009), The Travel Choices and Needs of Low Income Households: the Role of the Car, The National Centre for Social Research for the UK The Department for Transport; at www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/scienceresearch/social/theroleofthecar/roleofthecarreport.pdf.

 

Traffic and Transportation Psychology (www.verkehrspsychologie-dresden.de) is a research center at Dresden University of Technology that performs research on transportation attitudes, preferences and behavior.

 

Paul Tranter and Dr. Murray May (2005), Using the Concept of Effective Speed as a Stimulus for Travel Behaviour Change and Policy Development, Australian Greenhouse Office (www.greenhouse.gov.au/tdm/publications/effectivespeed-concept.html).

 

Transportation Control Measures Directory (http://yosemite.epa.gov/aa\tcmsitei.nsf) provides a searchable database of TDM program case studies.

 

Travel Plans Website (www.local-transport.dft.gov.uk/travelplans/index.htm) provides guidance for developing employer and community transportation management programs.

 

TravelSmart (www.travelsmart.gov.au) is a community-based program that encourages people to use alternatives to travelling in their private car. They have an extensive collection of research documents at www.travelsmart.gov.au/resources/index.html.

 

TRB (2008), Understanding How to Motivate Communities to Support and Ride Public Transportation, Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 122, Transportation Research Board (www.trb.org); at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_122.pdf.

 

Katherine F. Turnbull (2004), “Planning the Road Ahead with Market Research: Transportation Agencies Stay In Gear With Customers, Resources, and Performance Measures,” TR News 230, TRB (www.trb.org), Jan.-Feb. 2004, pp. 10-16.

 

Katherine F. Turnbull and Richard H. Pratt (2003), Transit Information and Promotion: Traveler Response to Transport System Changes, Chapter 11, Transit Cooperative Research Program Report 95; TRB (www.trb.org); at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_95c11.pdf.

 

TDM Resource Center (www.wsdot.wa.gov/Mobility/TDMhome.html) and Northwest Technology Transfer Center (www.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/T2) provide TDM resources.

 

Urban Transport Institute (www.tuti.com.au/Publications.html) is a research organization in Victoria, Australia that specializes in transport and environmental analysis and planning.

 

Joan L. Walker (2011), “Beyond Rationality in Travel Demand Models,” Access 39, University of California Transportation Center (www.uctc.net); at www.uctc.net/access/39/access39_demandmodels.shtml.

 

Edward P. Weber, David Nice, Nicholas P. Lovrich (2000), “Understanding Urban Commuters: How Are Non-SOV Commuters Different from SOV Commuters?” Transportation Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 2, Spring 2000, pp. 105-115.

 

Michael Wolf-Branigin and Karen Wolf-Branigin (2008),” The Emerging Field of Travel Training Services: A Systems Perspective, Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 109-123; at www.nctr.usf.edu/jpt/pdf/JPT11-3Wolf-Branigin.pdf.

 

Stephen Young and Vivienne Caisey (2010), “Mind Shift, Mode Shift: A Lifestyle Approach to Reducing Car Ownership and Use Based on Behavioural Economics and Social Marketing,” Perspectives in Public Health (https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913909354151).

 

Yun Zhang, Peter Stopher and Belinda Halling (2013), “Evaluation of South-Australia’s TravelSmart Project: Changes in Community’s Attitudes to Travel” Transport Policy, Vol. 26, pp. 15-22 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.06.008).   


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