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Many employers have found it simple and effective to encourage the use of HOVs or transit by providing their employees with a monetary incentive to do so. Monetary incentives most often take three forms: 1. direct subsidies for transit passes, use of employer vehicles for ridesharing, and parking for HOVs; 2. transportation allowances (employers are free to use this money to pay for parking or transit, or as additional income.); 3. parking cash-outs (parking is considered a workplace benefit, and those employees who do not use it are entitled to instead receive its monthly value.). A reduction in trips of between 8% and 18% can be expected at individual employment sites (Comsis Corporation, 1993b. pp. 3-21). Parking cash-out programs could reduce SOV commuting trips by as much as 24% (Wilson and Shoup, 1990). Source/Reference: WSDOT, 2000, pp. 23-24.
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The University of Texas at Austin’s Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) program provides reimbursement for four emergency taxi rides for trips home due to personal illness or emergency. When a regular parking permit holder of UT Austin returns his/her permit after changing to vanpooling, the unused months of the permit are refunded. Also, Capital Metro recently organized a contest with monetary rewards to encourage carpooling, vanpooling and other ridesharing approaches.
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Transportation Conformity and Demand Management: Vital Strategies for Clean Air Attainment – “In Southern California, an Employer Trip Reduction (ETR) requirement similar to that mandated for severe ozone nonattainment areas by the CAA has been in force for several years, as Regulation XV of the South Coast Air Quality Management District. ETR is a state or local regulation requiring employers, usually those above a certain size, to develop and carry out plans to encourage workers to commute by some means other than single occupant motor vehicles. Most of these programs have not involved pricing parking, but have emphasized ridesharing, guaranteed rides home, and related incentives. To date Reg XV has gotten mixed reviews, with reported average costs to firms per employee of $80 per year and relatively modest impacts on total emissions, since its affects only work trips”
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http://www.utexas.edu/parking/transportation/vanpool
http://www.commutesolutions.com/index.html
http://www.rivercitiesrideshare.com/en-US/
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Monetary Incentives in Texas
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Envision Central Texas  6800 Burleson Road, Building 310, Suite 165 Austin, TX 78744 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 17848 Austin, TX 78760-7848 |
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