CAMPO Transportation Policy Board Adopts Plan To Manage Demand In Austin Region

Members of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) Transportation Policy Board adopted a Regional Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan on September 9.

TDM is a collection of operational and behavior-changing strategies designed to reduce automobile trips, roadway congestion, and parking demand by redirecting travel towards alternate modes, times, and routes.

Over the past decade, the CAMPO region has experienced significant growth and prosperity that have increased traffic congestion on the region’s roadway system in Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties.

Regional priorities identified in the TDM Plan are to:

• Support transit projects and programs that address service gaps, such as increasing the number of and access to park-and-ride facilities, guaranteed ride home programs, and ensuring connections to the “last mile” portion of a trip;
• Support Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA), and other regional transportation providers in the implementation of managed lanes along key corridors inundated with traffic congestion and travel time reliability challenges;
• Increase outreach and public education programs;
• Fund projects and programs that address and reduce peak-time traffic congestion on priority corridors to provide for peak spreading;
• Fund projects and programs that support the implementation of work zone queue mitigation during roadway construction;
• Develop employer-based programs for raising employees’ awareness about travel options and the commute cost; and,
• Develop data collection and sharing programs and procedures to advance the planning and implementation efforts of member agencies to address TDM priorities.

This article was originally published by Strategic Partnerships Inc.