Multimodalism: Successes & Challenges

Multimodalism: Successes & Challenges
Tom Fairchild
City Version 3
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What is a multimodal transportation system?
What is a multimodal transportation system?
CHOICE
1. Metrics about Multimodalism
2. Technology and Multimodalism
3. “Street Turf Wars”
Selection of Metrics
about Multimodalism
Source: 2013 State of the Commute Report,
Commuter Connections
Source: 2013 State of the Commute Report,
Commuter Connections
R-B Car Traffic Counts Remain Flat
1996 - 2009
45,000
40,000
Development Growth
Office: 6,327,650 SF
Retail: 953,429 SF
Resident: 10,805 units
Hotel: 1,121 rooms
35,000
Axis Title
30,000
25,000
20,000
Glebe Road - Ballston (NS 6-lane Arterial)
15,000
Lee Highway - Rosslyn (EW 6-lane Arterial)
10,000
Wilson Blvd - Clarendon (EW 2-lane 1-way
Arterial)
5,000
Clarendon Blvd (EW 2-lane 1-way Arterial)
1996
2001
2006
2009
Arlington County DOT Traffic Counts
Challenge:
How can a user easily navigate multiple
transportation modes?
Challenge:
How can a user easily navigate multiple
transportation modes?
Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
Challenge:
How can a user easily navigate multiple
transportation modes?
TECHNOLOGY
Multimodal AND Multi-agency
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26 bus & rail transit agencies
2 commuter railroads
1 bikeshare system
3 carshare companies
Open Data fuels Multimodal Apps
1. Static Data (Schedule & Route)
2. Realtime Data
Transportation Techies
Helping Techies network and create
better transit apps.
Challenge:
If the streets are reserved for cars, where will
the other modes operate?
Challenge:
If the streets are reserved for cars, where will
the other modes operate?
"Street Turf Wars"
Pennsylvania Avenue
1919
1791
1900
Turnpike Act of 1810
By act of the US Congress, this
legislation meant to connect the
new capital city to the existing road
network with three new turnpikes.
“One road from the western
extremity of the causeway leading
from Alexander’s island to the
boundary line of the District of
Columbia, and the most direct and
practicable route towards the Little
River turnpike road, in the state of
Virginia.”
This is the origin of Columbia Pike.
The original tolls charged
on Columbia Pike:
"Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City", 2008
Peter Norton, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Virginia
TomFairchild@Cityv3.com
KelleyCoyner@nvtdc.org
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