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New reports detail efforts to cut congestion through smarter choices
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Did you know that removing just a small percentage of cars from roadways during rush hour can significantly relieve congestion? Nearly three out of four Austin commuters drive alone to work every day. Imagine if we could get that figure down!
Transportation demand management is the idea that we can quickly and cost-effectively improve mobility by changing how we get around rather than trying to build our way out of congestion. Want to know more? Check out Austin Transportation's new explainer piece about how transportation demand management can improve mobility in Austin.
Our Transportation Demand Management Program promotes solutions that move trips to off-peak hours or shift drive-alone trips to other forms, such as public transit, walking, biking, teleworking, carpooling, and vanpooling. We're working hard to help Austinites have happier, healthier commutes, but you don't have to take our word for it! Dive into the details in a new report that outlines the successes and progress we made last year.
These reports and more information are available at our Transportation Demand Management Program website.
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Get to Earth Day ATX sustainably on Saturday with a free B-cycle
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With each revolution around the sun comes another Earth Day ATX celebration! Just like last year, Austin Transportation is offering you a free Austin B-Cycle day pass so you can snag some wheels and spin sustainably to the event!
Earth Day ATX
12-7 p.m., Saturday, April 21
Huston-Tillotson University
900 Chicon St., Austin, TX 78702
Simply enter the code 42118 at a B-cycle kiosk to access your free Earth Day ATX day pass. Earth Day ATX is a zero waste event, which means there will be many opportunities to lower your carbon footprint, conserve, recycle and upcycle. Learn more here.
Providing sustainable transportation options is essential to Austin Transportation's mission, but we also work hard to be sustainable in other ways. For example, we recently upgraded downtown parking pay stations with new solar panels, batteries, processors and screens, then donated the old panels to an educational nonprofit and recycled the rest. |
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Reminder: Take our survey to help shape Austin's mobility future
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Provide your input on the future of Austin mobility! At last month's Traffic Jam! event, the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan team unveiled its MetroQuest survey, which asks the public to weigh in on three different scenarios for Austin’s future transportation network. These three scenarios are based on thousands of comments from public outreach in 2016 and 2017. Austin Transportation will use the feedback on these scenarios to develop the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan. The survey is available online at asmp.metroquest.com through May 31.
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If you have questions about the survey, you can contact the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan team at ASMP@austintexas.gov. You can learn more about the planning process online at AustinTexas.gov/ASMP.
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Coming up in this week's mobility calendar
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Austin Transportation is gearing up to have the community test out new dockless mobility options, but first we're asking the community what they want out of the upcoming pilot. Austin Transportation is continuing this public engagement process by asking for public input about dockless bike, electric bike and electric scooter systems at two listening sessions this week. Read more about the pilot program and open houses.
If you missed the chance to talk with Austin Transportation staff about the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan at the Traffic Jam! in March, you can stop by this "Mini Traffic Jam" on Wednesday, learn about the plan and provide your input in person. This will be an open house meeting, so stop by at your convenience!
- Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018
- Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
- Location: Turner Roberts Recreation Center
(7201 Colony Loop Dr., Austin, TX 78724)
The third draft of CodeNEXT – the ongoing rewrite of the City’s Land Development Code – and a briefing by Capital Metro on the agency’s proposed Project Connect high-capacity transit plan will be taken up at this meeting of the Urban Transportation Commission.
- Date: Monday, April 16, 2018 (Today!)
- Time: 5 p.m.
- Location: City Hall Council Chambers
(301 W 2nd St., Austin, TX 78701)
Dockless mobility systems (including bikes, electric bikes and electric scooters); the proposed Corridor Construction Program and its relationship to public transit and Project Connect; and 2018 Bond Program development will be taken up for discussion and possible action at this meeting of the City Council Mobility Committee.
- Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018
- Time: 3 p.m.
- Location: City Hall Board and Commission Room 1101
(301 W 2nd St., Austin, TX 78701)
Standards for bikeway detours during construction and the project design of the UT Austin Speedway Mall will be taken up at this meeting of the Bicycle Advisory Council.
- Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018
- Time: 6 p.m.
- Location: City Hall Room 1027
(301 W 2nd St., Austin, TX 78701)
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