Chittenden County VTEN | Local & Regional Transportation • CCTA: CCTA and GMTA merged, forming Green Mountain Transit (Mark Sousa, Northeast Kingdom [email protected]) Demand Management Initiatives (2017) • Development around the Jay Peak area is a huge opportunity. • CATMA: Membership available to businesses in Chittenden Co. and continued expansion of • St. Johnsbury, Danville, Lyndonville, and Newport City each pursuing bike/pedestrian regional Employee Transportation Coordinator Network. Implementation of Chittenden County infrastructure planning and/or development. online Sustainable Transportation Map. (Sandy Thibault, [email protected]) Grand Isle & Franklin Cos. • NEK Transportation Infrastructure Plan. • Local Motion: Developed first active transportation map for Chittenden County. Trained 12 trainers in eight regions to hold “Everyday Bicycling” workshops; over 300 attendees at 34 Improvements to Highgate municipal Park & Ride; new bus shelter funding approved. workshops to date. (Jason Van Driesche, [email protected]) New municipal Park & Ride in S. Hero. Grand Isle Co. Park & Ride Scoping Study funded Go! Vermont outreach to the Burke Mountain HR department. Working to have a bus from • CarShare Vermont: now serves Burlington, Winooski, and Montpelier; launched Be Car through VTrans. (Amanda Holland, [email protected]) Burke Mountain meet employees in Lyndonville who arrived on the Jay-Lyn Conscious, a campaign to promote awareness about the financial cost of driving and owning a route. Purchase of a new building in Lyndonville allowed RCT to adjust the Jay-Lyn routes vehicle (carconscious.org ) and LetsShareVT, a social media campaign targeting millennials to add additional trips with connections to the US 2 Commuter. Working to add Wi Fi to (lessharevt.org). (Annie Bourdon, [email protected]) RCT buses and real-time bus tracking. RCT routes are now on Google Maps. • CCRPC: working with CATMA, Champlain College & UVM to launch campus bike share; intent to (Mary Grant, [email protected] or Frank Maloney, [email protected]) expand & include stations in Burlington, S. Burlington & Winooski. Regional Active Transportation Plan draft available at ccrpcvt.org/our-work/our-plans/regional-bikeped-plan/. (Bryan Davis, [email protected]) Addison & Rutland Cos. Washington & ? • Go! Vermont partnerships with many town energy committees in both counties. Caledonia Cos. • Developing targeted commute trip reduction program using Go! Vermont tools for large employers to support retention and recruitment of low-income service sector jobs. Montpelier Sugarbush added a vanpool from • Regional Planning Commission is developing an Advisory Group to support improvements to 350+ state employees are participating in the Capital Commuters program. Barre to accommodate those who want jobs but lack transportation. bike/ped infrastructure. (Deb Sachs, [email protected] or Ross MacDonald, • ACTR has new guaranteed ride home program, new routes implemented and in planning [email protected]) GMT running two additional with rider and town energy committee input; is part of state transit association’s Medicaid Montpelier Link Express trips. Non-Emergency Medical Transportation contract with the state. Vermont Community Alliance for Public Transportation (VCAPT) seeks to • RRPC has developed a regional bike suitability map and hosted the 2016 Walk/Bike Summit represent a broad public advocacy group for promoting and improving public in Rutland. See walkbikesummitvt.com transportation options across Vermont. (Contact [email protected]) • MVRTD is active with employers and colleges through its Unlimited Access Program (UAP) (Nadine Barnicle, [email protected]; Minga Dana, [email protected]; Mary-Claire Crogan, [email protected]; Josh Donabedian, [email protected]) Upper Valley • Vital Communities/UVTMA: Launching marketing campaign around Cross-Region Work Advance Transit real-time phone app. (Bethany Fleishman, • Clean Cities Coalition: Working with fleets to identify efficiency opportunities; expanding Southern Windsor Co. workplace EV charging through outreach and education; creating Sustainable Transportation [email protected]) RPC adopted regional transportation plan Action Toolkit for VT colleges; providing educational brown bags on petroleum-reduction topics; • Advance Transit: Green Route expansion through Hartford to (swcrpc.org/publications) and is engaging TAC working on the Northeast Transportation Workforce Center to ID gaps in the alt fuel workforce. Hanover & Lebanon, NH. Launch of pilot real-time bus tracker. (Van in conversations about unmet transportation (Abby Bleything, [email protected]) needs in region, particularly for medical Chesnut, [email protected]) • VEIC: VEIC promotes Go! Vermont to employers across the state. Working with low-income transportation. • Stagecoach Transportation Services: Revitalized I-91 corridor employees to see how Go! Vermont programming can support them in finding and retaining (Katharine Otto, [email protected]) commuter bus seen 31% increase in ridership. Improvements planned employment. Working with transit and school bus providers on electrifying fleets. (Michelle McCutcheon-Schour, [email protected]@veic.org) for the I-89 commuter bus in 2017. (Aaron Little, alittle@stagecoach- • Idle-Free VT: Vermont Idle-Free Schools project funded for 2015-2016; UVM idling study report: rides.org) Idling Matters!; VT DEC launches vehicle idling webpage: BeIdleFree.Vermont.gov; Fleet idling reduction certification program by the American Lung Assoc. of the Northeast/UVM (Wayne Michaud, [email protected]; Rebecca Ryan, [email protected]) Windham County • VNRC: Transportation and Inclusive Communities Project in partnership with the Champlain Office of Economic Opportunity, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, Northwest • Brattleboro Climate Protection – Way-to-Go in May and September, Regional Planning Commission, VEIC, and AARP VT. Supporting communities who choose to quarterly business roundtable, Smart Commute Brattleboro undertake “enhanced energy planning” (Kate McCarthy, [email protected]) • Bike suitability map and Regional Mobility Study. Our map is filling up! • AARP Vermont: Partnered with Bethel community on a Better Block project, challenging the • Human services providers trained in transportation resources outreach. community to take immediate action to improve livability using do-it-yourself methods. Allows Please see attached appendix for more (Erica Roper, [email protected] or Paul Cameron, public space improvements, street modifications and zoning changes to be tested and proven details on some of the programs listed here. [email protected]) before implementation. (Kelly Stoddard-Poor, [email protected]) VTEN | Vermont Transportation Efficiency Network Appendix to Map of Local & Regional Transportation Demand Management Initiatives (2017) Our map is filling up! Below are some programs’ details that did not fit onto the map. Addison County Go! Vermont: In partnership with town energy committees, Go! Vermont is conducting transportation surveys in Middlebury, Bristol and Monkton to gather public opinion, measure awareness of transportation alternatives and establish benchmarks for adapting Go! VERMONT commuter programs. To follow up on the pilot survey in Weybridge, Go! Vermont, in partnership with the town energy committee, is designing a pilot promotion to encourage carpooling in two target populations - school families and commuters. Using a neighbor-to-neighbor approach the goal will be to encourage people to commit to incremental steps towards creating new transportation habits. Partnering with local and regional agencies to develop targeted commute trip reduction program utilizing Go! Vermont tools for large employers in Addison County to support retention and recruitment of low-income service sector jobs. Contact: Nadine Barnicle, [email protected] Addison Co. Regional Planning Commission is developing an Advisory Group to support improvements to bike/ped infrastructure county-wide. Contact: Josh Donabedian, [email protected] Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) Midday service launched on two in-county routes. The upgrades were named as top priorities by riders and supported by an Efficiency Study that looked at unmet community needs and under-performing areas that could be reallocated. Riders are eager for real-time bus information on ACTR. Midday service between Middlebury and Burlington is a top priority. This is supported by local energy committees’ outreach and ACTR’s 2016 bus rider survey. Partnering with local health care providers and human service agencies in Addison County’s Community Health Action Team (CHAT) to improve community wellness and care delivery efficiencies. Partnered with VPTA, chaired by Jim Moulton, to submit a successful bid for the state’s Medicaid Non-Emergency Medical Transportation contract. VTEN | Appendix to 2017 Vermont TDM Map Partnered with Age Well to provide 1,000 free bus tokens to elderly and disabled Addison County residents. ACTR and Stagecoach boards are evaluating the configuration of our future association Working with local and state project managers to find both a temporary and permanent location for ACTR’s Transit Hub, both during an upcoming railroad construction project and beyond. Contact: Mary-Claire Crogan, [email protected] Middlebury now has six EV charging stations - two municipal; two RPC; two Middlebury