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Triangle Transportation Choices FY23 Annual Impact Report (15 minutes)
Jenna Kolling, Central Pines Regional Council
David Miller, MPO Staff
Narrative
The Triangle Transportation Choices Program promotes Transportation Demand Management (TDM) initiatives across the Triangle region, encouraging residents and workers to adopt alternative transportation modes such as carpooling, vannpooling, transit, biking, walking, teleworking, flexible work hours, and compressed workweeks. This initiative, jointly funded by DCHC MPO, Capital Area MPO, and the NCDOT Integrated Mobility Division, has been instrumental in promoting more efficient utilization of existing transportation infrastructure since its inception in 2007.
Notably, the program's outreach and marketing endeavors have significantly reduced vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the region, amounting to 845 million miles by the end of the last fiscal year. In FY23, the Triangle Transportation Choices Program allocated $1.66 million across 19 grants, with $186,000 designated for six new Equity & Inclusion pilot grantees. As a result, the program now supports approximately 33,000 alternative transportation users daily.
Throughout the fiscal year, the program successfully averted six million single-occupancy vehicle trips and slashed over 87 million commute miles. A new addition to this year’s annual impact report is the presentation of the program’s cost effectiveness and societal benefits, including considerations for global climate change mitigation, deferral of new road construction, and the health benefits associated with biking and walking, as well as reductions in air and noise pollution, fuel consumption, traffic congestion, and vehicle crashes. The cumulative societal benefits of the TDM services provided by the Triangle Transportation Choices Program in FY23 are estimated at $34 million.
Board Action
TC Action: Received the presentation on the Triangle Transportation Choices FY23 Annual Impact Report and provided comments.
Board Action: Receive the presentation on the Triangle Transportation Choices FY23 Annual Impact Report and provide comments.