3/29/2011 Instant Carpooling ‐ Just Add p g Passengers and Go: the Phenomenon That Is Casual Carpooling Thursday, March 31, 2011 y Sponsored by ACT, National Center for Transit Research at USF, and Best Workplaces for Commuters Sponsored by: Association for Commuter Transportation Advocates for TDM Provides professional growth and networking opportunities Communicates the latest information on TDM best practices and industry news ACT International Conference Chicago August 27-31 For more info, visit www.actweb.org 1
3/29/2011 Sponsored by: National Center for Transit Research NCTR is located at the Commuter Choice Center for Urban Center for Urban Certificate Certificate Transportation Research Online courses (CUTR) at the University www.commuterservices.com of South Florida Home of the new Best National TDM and Workplaces for Telework Clearinghouse Commuters Help Desk www.bestworkplaces.org www.nctr.usf.edu/clearing house TRANSP-TDM listserv Netconference Evaluation You can choose receive one credit under Commuter Choice Certificate program managed b the Center for Choice Certificate program managed by the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida by simply providing your contact information on the evaluation form. Evaluation: l https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/instantcarpooling Form also will appear at end of event 2
3/29/2011 Speakers Susan Heinrich, Mark Burris, PhD. Marc Oliphant Metropolitan Metropolitan Texas A&M T A&M Department of the Transportation Navy Commission 3
3/29/2011 Overview & S Overview & S lugging in D C lugging in D.C. ACT/ NCTR Webinar March 31, 2011 Marc Oliphant Marc Oliphant Department of the Navy Carpooling Is: • Inexpensive • Environmentally Friendly • A Congestion Reducer • Light on Infrastructure • Socially Beneficial y 1
3/29/2011 Background on Carpooling • 1940’s ▫ WWII: Carpool for War Effort • 1970’s ▫ Oil Embargo ▫ First Vanpools @ 3M, Chrysler ▫ Organic Dynamic Ridesharing “Slugging” & “Casual Carpooling” • On Decline For Past 30 Years ▫ 1980: 19.7% ▫ 1990: 13.3% ▫ 2000: 12.2%* *Pisarski, 2006, Commuting in America III Neighborhood X Traditional Carpool Carpool A Arrangement 1 2 3 Carpool B Carpool B Each blue square represents Each blue square represents one carpooler. 4 5 6 Carpool C 7 8 9 Downtown Carpool D p 10 11 12 Carpool E 13 14 15 Parallel Public Transit/Backup Transportation 2
3/29/2011 The Trouble with Traditional Carpooling: Just before quitting time a man was called into an unplanned meeting an unplanned meeting. He couldn t find anyone He couldn’t find anyone from his carpool so he left a note for them saying Gotta w ork late, leave w ithout m e.” At 7 p.m., “ when his meeting finally ended, he found a note on his chair that read: “Meet us at the restaurant across the street, YOU DROVE!” Joke Courtesy of Mike Burkhart, www.mikeburkhart.com Fundamentals of Casual Carpooling/ S lugging • A mutually beneficial relationship between passengers and drivers ▫ Participants cooperate to save TIME and MONEY • Driven by strong incentives to individuals ▫ No money exchanged* • A transit system that goes by itself. * This was the universal rule for 30+ years until July 2010 when an HOV toll went into effect in San Francisco (Susan will elaborate) 3
3/29/2011 Person Meeting Place Based A Dynamic Ridesharing Person B Person C Person D Common Dynamic Carpools Downtown Meeting Place Person Carpools form and E depart as participants arrive. i Person F Person Parallel Public Transit/Backup Transportation G How S lugging Works • Lines of People and Lines of Cars • Create Instant Carpools Based on Common B d C Destinations (Horner Road Commuter Lot) I ‐ 95 Exit 158 in Northern VA 4
3/29/2011 The Return Trip • Similar Afternoon System 14 th Street and New York Avenue Downtown Washington, D.C. S lugging in Northern VA/ DC • Slugging began in the 1970 s with HOV laws 1970’s with HOV laws • Most extensive system (# of origins & destinations) • Centered on the I95/395 corridor corridor • 6,500 people slug daily (VDOT 2006) 5
3/29/2011 Map of S lugging Locations 3/29/2011 WASHINGTON, DC WOODBRIDGE 14 th & NY Old Hechinger's 14 th & D Street 14 th & Constitution Tackett's Mill 14 th & Commerce Horner Rd 14 th & Independence Potomac Mills 14 th & G Street L'Enfant Plaza Montclair Fire Station 19 th & F Street Montclair Nothgate 19 th & I Street Rt. 234 (Dumfries Rd) NORTHERN VIRGINIA Pentagon STAFFORD Rosslyn Mine Road Crystal City SPRINGFIELD Route 610 Bob's Route 630 Daventry Cardinal Plaza FREDERICKSBURG Rolling Valley Huntsman Route 3 Mobile Station Route 17 21A Slide Courtesy of David LeBlanc www.slug-lines.com 3/29/2011 • #1 source for slugging information in the information in the D.C. area. • Voluntarily operated for 10+ years by David years by David LeBlanc. Image Courtesy of David LeBlanc, LeBlanc9425@yahoo.com 6
3/29/2011 Recent Changes in D.C. • Fall 2010- DDOT relocated slug-lines along 14 th Street • Feb 2011- Loss of 750 commuter parking spaces • Feb 2011 Loss of 750 commuter parking spaces at Potomac Mills Mall in Woodbridge. • UPCOMING- High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes ▫ Under construction on Capital Beltway (I-495) ▫ Planned for Shirley Highway (I-95) S LUGGING 2.0 in D.C. • Two Listservs (that we know of) h k f • “eSLUG” ▫ Origin: Navy Yard Area of Washington, D.C. ▫ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eslug/ ▫ Destination: “Horner Road” Park and Ride Lot • “RosslynSlugs” ▫ Origin: Rosslyn Area of Arlington ▫ http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/RosslynSlugs /?m=0 ▫ Destination: “Route 17” Park and Ride Lot 7
3/29/2011 More Info/ Links of Interest • www.slug-lines.com ▫ Complete source for D.C. slugging information • http://rugoingmyway.us/ • http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture- society/slugging-the-peoples-transit-28068/ • http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/advancedresearch/ • http://ridesharechoices.scripts.mit.edu/home Contact Marc Oliphant, AICP Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Washington 1314 Harwood St. SE Bldg. 212 Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5018 Phone: (202) 685-8049 marc.oliphant@navy.mil or p @ marcoliphant@hotmail.com Special Thanks to: FHWA Exploratory Advanced Research Program, Association for Commuter Transportation, NCTR, FHWA Office of Operations, and Naval Facilities Engineering Command 8
3/29/2011 Mark Burris Texas A & M University Mburris@tamu.edu Mburris@tamu.edu Slugging occurs at three locations Slugging occurs at three locations ◦ Kingsland and Addicks Park & Ride lots on I-10 ◦ NW Station Park & Ride lot on US 290 Occurs mostly between 6:00 AM and 9:00 AM Changes with HOV occupancy requirements Mainly use transit for return trips, a small percentage slug back from Louisiana Street (downtown) 1
3/29/2011 Northwes North Northwest Station hwest Station Station Park tation Park Park and Park and and Ride and Ride Ride ide Kings Kingsland Park and and Park and Ride Ride Addicks Addicks Park and Ride ark and Ride 2
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3/29/2011 HOV Lane: ◦ SOVs never allowed, Buses always free y ◦ from 5 am to 6:45 am HOV 2+ Free ◦ From 6:45 am to 8:00 am HOV 2 pay $2 toll through QuickRide program HOV 3+ free HOV 3+ free ◦ From 8:00 am to 11 am and 2 pm to 7 pm: HOV 2+ Free June 2003 Slug Count June 2003 Slug Count 40 NW Station (135) 35 Kingsland (130) g ( ) 30 30 Addicks 219) er of Slugs Slugs 25 Number of 20 Numb 15 10 5 0 5:30 5:45 6:00 6:15 6:30 6:45 7:00 7:15 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00 9:15 AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM Time of Time of Day Day 4
3/29/2011 203 at the Addicks Park & Ride lot, 161 at the Kingsland Park & Ride lot, and 6 at t e gs a d a & de ot, a d 214 at the Northwest Station Park & Ride lot. All greater than the June count, with NW Station seeing a 50%+ increase Surveyed these slugs, all but ≈ 7% took a y g , survey, 40% returned completed survey. 45 40 Average = 144 seconds d mber of Observations 35 30 25 20 15 Num 10 5 0 0-59 60-119 120-179 180-239 240-299 300-359 360-419 420-479 Wait Time (seconds) 5
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