Improvement of transportation system efficiency by altering transportation system demand through management of pricing, services, employment-based actions, such as staggered work hours and telecommuting, and regulations, rather than capital improvements.
Measures which try to reduce the proportion of person-trips traveling by Single Occupant Vehicle (SOV). They can include promotion of non-SOV modes of transportation, car and vanpool formation assistance, transit subsidies, and a variety of other measures.
Program designed to maximize the people-moving capability of the transportation system by increasing the number of people in each vehicle or by influencing the time of, or need to, travel. To accomplish these sorts of changes, TDM programs must rely on incentives or disincentives to make the shifts in behavior attractive. The term TDM encompasses both the alternatives to driving alone and the techniques or supporting strategies that encourage the use of these modes.
The primary product of implementing a TDM program should be reduced peak period traffic congestion and air pollution. TDM programs include a variety of employer-provided incentives aimed at inducing commuters to rideshare, use transit, walk, or bicycle to work. Incentives include preferential parking, matching services, bicycle facilities, and award programs.
Measure to reduce the demand for transportation, normally in relation to trips in SOVs. TDM measures are often referred to in terms of “carrots” and “sticks”. “Carrots” include priority lanes and preferential parking for HOVs, and improved transit service while “sticks” would include bridge tolls, gas taxes, and higher parking rates.
Actions to reduce transportation demand.
Programs designed to reduce demand for transportation through various means, such as the use of transit and of alternative work hours.
a general term for actions that encourage a decrease in the demand for the existing transportation system.
A WSDOT process of creating and developing effective solutions to capacity constraints within the state transportation system. This is largely a planning effort that results in such solutions as land use planning implementation, parking management, high capacity transportation, and high occupancy vehicle systems.
Strategies developed to manage the demand for transportation facilities, promote the use of transit, decrease the number vehicle trips, and lower Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) growth.
Transportation Demand Management or "TDM" is changing or reducing demand for car use by encouraging the behavioural change of household choices of travel. TDM is used increasingly by urban planners to affect the rate at which new development attracts cars and increases the need for new or expanded roadways.