Trip Planning for Employees June 23, 2021
Ross and Alex intro
Alex - Community Programs Specialist working on some non traditional transit solutions focused on Lynnwood currently
1 Agenda • Why Trip Plan?
• Commute Options • Transit • Biking/Walking • Carpool/Vanpool
• Questions/Comments
2 Why Trip Plan?
• Compare modes, times estimates, cost • Good to double check different tools sometimes
3 Why Trip Plan?
Fill the gaps! • Knowledge • Misinformation • Outdated information
Removing barriers promotes Image credit: Verywell Mind “6 stages of behavior change” behavior change
4 Commute Options Transit • Community Transit Trip Planner • Alerts for any route • Bus Finder • Bus Seat Availability • Bus Plus • Calling our Customer Care or visiting our Lynnwood RideStore
• What about Swift Bus Rapid Transit? • What about DART paratransit?
• Community Transit Trip Planner – Plan a trip • Bus Alerts for any route – Get alerts for your bus • Bus Finder – Find your bus in real time • Bus Seat Availability – See how crowded or not your bus is • Bus Plus – PDF of our schedule book if you prefer to plan this way. Let us know if you need hard copies. • Customer Care – Call or email for trip planning, customer comments, transit information • Lynnwood RideStore – ORCA assistance, lost and found • Fares and Pass information – Contact us with any questions about ORCA for Business solutions • Swift – Two Swift lines, Blue and Green and schedules not needed because frequency - Buses arrive every 10 minutes on weekdays and every 15–20 minutes on early mornings, evenings, and weekends. You don’t even need a schedule. Just get on and get moving. I still like to check so I can time my wait appropriately. • DART Paratransit – Need to apply and qualify and then your Dial A Ride to schedule the service. Hence the name. We also have our travel training program which is useful for some who might not qualify for DART.
5 Commute Options
Transit • Other Tools • Google Maps • Apple Maps • Transit App • OneBusAway • Uber / Lyft
Other apps are in real time now since we publish our data. Yay.
• Google Maps – Very popular user friendly experience on desktop or mobile, great to plan multimodal trips and compare modes, times, cost • Apple Maps – Only on apple products • Transit App – Popular mobile app • OneBusAway – Popular app in the Puget Sound region • Uber / Lyft – These apps/services incorporate transit as an option and good for combining trips
Show this example: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/2300+Kasch+Park+Rd,+Everett,+WA+98204- 2137,+USA/Mill+Creek+Town+Center,+Main+Street,+Mill+Creek,+WA/@47.8886177,- 122.2764719,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x549001413880dcdf:0x31f273c 2326d91b0!2m2!1d- 122.2650877!2d47.916317!1m5!1m1!1s0x5490067823ca821b:0xfeb64f09b0b4bc0d!2m2!1 d-122.2195643!2d47.8595539!3e3
6 Commute Options Biking / Walking • Google Maps • Apple Maps • Urban centers like Seattle • Mapmyride • Community Transit Bike Map
• Google Maps – Toggle over to bike directions, they are generally pretty good but sometimes good to double check with a friend/college who knows bike routes • Apple Maps – Bike directions currently available in urban centers like Seattle • Community Transit Bike Map – Let us know if you want hard copies
Usually helpful to check with a colleague or friend who bikes and knows routes too
Also great to test any trip bike or transit on a weekend or day when you are not rushing to a meeting first thing.
Trip to bring up: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Edmonds,+WA/Swedish+Edmonds+Campus,+76th+Aven ue+West,+Edmonds,+WA/@47.8090304,- 122.3621298,14.88z/data=!3m1!5s0x54901abc799fb535:0x55f0c58885a381b0!4m14!4m13! 1m5!1m1!1s0x54901b1d8b6c6fe9:0x72449f271b246a0!2m2!1d- 122.3773551!2d47.8106521!1m5!1m1!1s0x54901abc5fe1fff3:0x20f253d2103aa184!2m2!1d -122.3344445!2d47.8033141!3e1
Toggle to walk directions and highlight WalkScore as great tool espechially when looking for housing
7 Commute Options
Carpool / Vanpool • Communitytransit.org/vanpool • RideshareOnline.com • iCarpool • Google Maps (for routing)
Use Edmonds – Seattle for Community Transit trip finder: https://www.communitytransit.org/vanpool/find
Map for VPs locations which can be filtered by employer as well as where they go and/or start: http://rideshareonline.icarpool.com/widgets/data/VanpoolNetworkResults.aspx?city=s eattle&state=wa&showRidersWantedOnly=False
Example: Boeing Lynnwood: http://rideshareonline.icarpool.com/widgets/data/VanpoolNetworkResults.aspx?city=ly nnwood&state=wa&showRidersWantedOnly=False Just change the employer or city
See resources sheet or reach out with questions
8 Commute Options
Carpool / Vanpool • Other Tools • Waze • Scoop • Uber / Lyft
9 Questions? Comments
Advanced training hours survey: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/926016a5b7034313adcd05255f70218d
Resources sheet with links to come with slides and recording
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