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Techniques For Mitigating Urban Sprawl |
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| Worksite-Based Strategies |
| Transportation Management Associations |
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Transportation Management Associations (TMAs) are nonprofit member organizations of businesses and developers (and sometimes local jurisdictions, state government, and transit agencies) dedicated to solving transportation concerns within a specific geographic area. In a more formalized way TMAs generally offer employers a combination of four types of activities: 1. Information, training, and education; 2. Direct facilitation of TDM services such as ridematching, vanpools, and guaranteed ride home; 3. Advocacy for new and improved transportation/transit services; and 4. Assistance in complying with local transportation and air quality regulations. Most TMAs are public-private partnerships and can reduce employers’ costs to implement work site programs. Source/Reference: WSDOT, 2000, pp. 33-34.
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Two TMAs operate currently within the Dallas —Fort Worth Metropolitan Area. The first TMA in this region, the Central Dallas TMA (CDA), operates in the Dallas central business district (CBD) while the second TMA the Downtown Fort Worth Transportation Management Organization began operation in 1999. In 1998, CDA facilitated the implementation of Pegasus Parking, a seamless parking garage system that utilizes TollTag technology. This organization also provides the emergency ride Home service for the DART E-pass program. Also the Downtown Fort worth TMO is currently assisting with the planning of an Intermodal Transportation Center and the implementation of way finding sign improvements in the Fort worth CBD. As a result of the 1999 Call for projects issued by the Regional Transportation Council, federal start up funds were allocated to three more emerging TMAs, the Dallas /Fort worth International Airport TMA, the East Side Farmers Branch TMA, and the Richardson —North Central TMA. Currently, the Central Dallas TMA (CDA) focuses on transportation issues affecting the Dallas CBD
http://www.nctcog.org/trans/cmp/tdm/tma.asp
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NCTCOG Transportation Management Associations – “A Transportation Management Association (TMA) is a formal organization of businesses and local governments dedicated to solving local transportation concerns. TMAs usually focus on the travel needs of large employers, and are often created to give businesses a voice in local government transportation planning, to advocate enhanced mobility, and to reduce employer costs of implementing individual worksite transportation programs through economies of scale.”
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