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One-Way Carsharing As a First and Last Mile Solution For ONE-WAY CARSHARING AS A FIRST AND LAST MILE SOLUTION FOR TRANSIT Lessons from BCAA Evo Carshare in Vancouver Prepared by: Neha Sharma | UBC Sustainability Scholar | 2019 Prepared for: Mirtha Gamiz | Planner, New Mobility | TransLink Lindsay Wyant | Business Insights Analyst | BCAA Evo June 2020 This report was produced as part of the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program, a partnership between the University of British Columbia and various local governments and organisations in support of providing graduate students with opportunities to do applied research on projects that advance sustainability across the region. This project was conducted under the mentorship of TransLink and BCAA Evo staff. The opinions and recommendations in this report and any errors are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of TransLink, BCAA Evo or the University of British Columbia. Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the following individuals for their feedback and support throughout this project: Lindsay Wyant | Business Insights Analyst | BCAA Evo Mirtha Gamiz | Planner, New Mobility, Strategic Planning and Policy | TransLink Eve Hou | Manager, Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Policy | TransLink ii T ABLE OF C ONTENTS List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................. v Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 1 Study Context .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Carsharing and Transit ....................................................................................................................... 1 Carsharing | Definitions and Benefits ............................................................................................... 3 One-way Carsharing | Trends ........................................................................................................... 4 Literature Review | One-way Carsharing and First and Last Mile to Transit ................................... 5 Project Scope ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Scope Definition .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Geographical Scope of the Study .................................................................................................... 6 Transit in the Metro Vancouver Region | TransLink.......................................................................... 7 Carsharing in the Region | Evo Carshare ........................................................................................ 9 Data ........................................................................................................................................................... 10 Study Objective ......................................................................................................................................... 12 Research Methodology ......................................................................................................................... 12 Analytical Framework ............................................................................................................................... 12 Assumptions ............................................................................................................................................... 13 Limitations .................................................................................................................................................. 15 Results ...................................................................................................................................................... 15 Geospatial Analysis ................................................................................................................................... 15 Geospatial & Temporal Analysis | By Station .......................................................................................... 18 Station Profile | Braid ....................................................................................................................... 18 Station Profile | Rupert .................................................................................................................... 20 Temporal Analysis ...................................................................................................................................... 22 Demographic Results ................................................................................................................................ 24 Recommendations ................................................................................................................................. 25 Directions for Further Research.............................................................................................................. 26 iii Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 27 Bibliography ............................................................................................................................................ 27 Annexures ............................................................................................................................................... 31 Annexure I - Cases of jurisdictions where one-way carsharing played a role in providing the first and last mile connectivity to transit* ................................................................................................................ 31 Annexure II - Distribution of Evo trips that originate or terminate within various radii of circular zones of influence from the selected 10 SkyTrain stations ..................................................................................... 32 Annexure III - Satellite maps of SkyTrain stations with 150 m radius circular zones ................................ 33 Annexure IV - Distribution of trips by SkyTrain station based on the distance travelled per trip .......... 35 Annexure V - Distribution of Evo trips by weekday and weekend for trips in the likelihood of first or last mile categories | Overall and for each of the ten SkyTrain stations ..................................................... 36 Annexure VI - Demographics for Evo trip takers by Likelihoods of first or last mile trip takers’ | Age Distribution (left panel) and Gender Distribution (right panel) ............................................................... 37 iv L IST OF F IGURES Figure 1: Illustration depicting the first or last mile challenge for transit ...................................................... 2 Figure 2: Schema for categorising carsharing trips as first or last mile connections to transit .................... 6 Figure 3: Map of Metro Vancouver Region ................................................................................................... 6 Figure 4: Modes of transit and GHG emissions in Metro Vancouver ............................................................ 8 Figure 5: Policy directions for TransLink with respect to Carsharing, as depicted in Transportation 2040 document ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Figure 6: Depictions from Shared Mobility Compass Cards Pilot Project between TransLink, Mobi, Evo and Modo ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Figure 7: Map of Evo’s Zone of Operation: Figure depicts the home zone areas in blue and the satellite parking locations depicted with blue circles marked with ‘P’ ................................................................... 10 Figure 8: Map of SkyTrain stations incorporated in the study analysis ....................................................... 11 Figure 9: Analytical Framework deployed for this research ....................................................................... 13 Figure 10: Spatial distribution of Evo trip-lines: pertaining to trips originating and terminating within 400 m radius circular zone of each of the ten SkyTrain analysed in the study ..................................................... 16 Figure 11: Proportion of trips in the three likelihood of first or last mile categories for each of the SkyTrain stations ........................................................................................................................................................... 18 Figure 12: Braid Station | Geospatial mapping of trips by likelihood of first or last mile and home neighbourhood analysis ................................................................................................................................ 19 Figure 13: [Left Panel] Daily hourly weekday distribution of high likelihood first and last mile Evo trips surrounding Braid Station .............................................................................................................................. 20 Figure 14: [Right Panel] Daily hourly average
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