Current Transportation Demand Management and Transit Projects
This is a list of BTTI funded projects currently being implemented. More details can be found for each on the TDM Projects pages.

• Redmond Trip Reduction Incentive Program Partnership (Phase II)
• Citywide Rideshare Incentives Program (R-Rewards)
• Transportation Demand Management Demonstration Programs/New Initiatives
• Shuttle
• Business Transportation Resource and Recognition Program
• Performance-based Incentives for Commute Trip Reduction
• Parking Management Demonstration

Completed Transportation Demand Management and Transit Projects
The following is a list of BTTI funded projects that have been completed.

• Citywide Employer Transportation Demand Management Incentives – Redmond Trip Reduction Incentive Program (R-TRIP) Phase I
• Rideshare Rewards Program
• Non-Commute Trip Reduction Employer Support Program
• Corridor Vanpool Incentive Program – RSVP
• Bellevue/Redmond Overlake Transportation Study (BROTS) Transportation Demand Management (Bravo Project)
• Bikestation at Overlake Transit Center

Final additional details from these completed projects listed below.

Citywide Employer Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Incentives– Redmond Trip Reduction Incentive Program
 (R-TRIP) Phase I
Location: Citywide

BTTI Contribution: $1,000,000  
Description: On an average work day, 85% of people employed in Redmond drive to work alone. The result is that the residential and commercial areas in the City experience severe traffic congestion. Transportation demand management (TDM) programs have been shown to successfully reduce single occupancy vehicle trips at businesses where TDM programs are offered. R-TRIP encourages all employers to establish new or expanded alternative commute TDM programs. Examples of projects that reflect activities with the most potential for success are carpool, vanpool, and transit subsidies; provision of bike facilities, parking management; telecommuting incentives and proactive outreach and marketing of commute alternatives.
Status: This project was launched as R-TRIP (Redmond Trip Reduction Incentive Program). Initially, employers applied for grant funding to implement new or enhanced commute trip reduction incentives. The initial funding for R-TRIP was used to leverage additional partnership opportunities and funding from King County Metro, Washington State Department of Transportation and Redmond employers to provide additional, more streamlined program offerings for all alternative modes. In Phase I, over 35 employers received direct grant funding to implement commute trip reduction incentive programs. Approximately 4,000 employees representing over 200 employers also received initial alternative commute benefits to introduce them to using alternative commute modes. The program’s success has been recognized both regionally and nationally for its effective and innovative partnerships.  The Phase II R-TRIP program and results are noted in the current TDM section..

Citywide Rideshare Rewards Program
Location: Citywide

 
BTTI Contribution: $142,424
Description: Incentive programs have proven successful in reducing the number of single occupancy vehicles on the road and the need for parking. The R-Rewards commuter club was intended to increase the use of alternate modes of transportation, with particular emphasis on non-motorized and carpool commuting. The program encourages employees to try carpooling, bicycling and walking, and encourages those who currently use alternate modes to do so more frequently by allowing commuters to accumulate points toward a gift card.
Status: This program was incorporated into the comprehensive R-TRIP program in 2004.

Non-Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) Employer Support Program
Location: Citywide

BTTI Contribution: $55,000   
Description: Traffic congestion is relieved when the number of single occupancy vehicles on the road is reduced. The objective of the small employer program was to target businesses of less than 100 employees with trip reduction information and assistance. An employer handbook and promotional materials, and customer support were developed and offered free of charge. The Rideshare Rewards commuter club was developed and implemented as a demonstration project. An ETC Rewards program to encourage individuals at small employers to sign up as Employee Transportation Coordinators was also implemented. Results from a small employer focus group helped guide enhancements to R-TRIP, with greater emphasis on direct to commuter incentives and personalized outreach and commute assistance.
Status: This demonstration program was developed into the Business Transportation Resource and Recognition Program.

Corridor Vanpool Incentive Program – RSVP
Location: Citywide

BTTI Contribution: $150,000 
Description: Several corridors in Redmond have significant employee populations with accompanying traffic congestion, but limited transit availability. The RSVP Vanpool Incentive Program is along targeted corridors. Building upon successful employer programs, the RSVP Vanpool incentive program was added to offer a focused, short-term vanpool formation effort that provides resources and incentives to assist employees in Redmond to form vanpools.
Status: Since the program began, over 300 individuals became vanpoolers, helping make Redmond the largest vanpool market on the Eastside. This program was incorporated into the comprehensive R-TRIP program in 2004.

Bellevue/Redmond Overlake Transportation Study (BROTS) Transportation Demand Management
Location: Overlake area

BTTI Contribution: $218,500  
Description: The City Councils of Redmond and Bellevue directed their staffs to develop a 2-year TDM demonstration pilot program in the Overlake area. The focus was on small and mid-sized employers with less than 100 employees, it must have measurable goals, identify new partnership opportunities while coordinating with existing CTR efforts, and could be replicated or continued. The Greater Redmond Transportation Management Association (GRTMA) contracted to develop and administer a new marketing and information based TDM program, BRAVO. In addition, the Cities contracted with Metro to provide a vanpool incentive program to augment the program.
Status: The campaign began with a focus on providing small and mid-sized, non-transportation regulated businesses information and high-level resources under a common branding. Midway through the project, it was realized that this focus was missing something to achieve any real goals… a focus on direct commuter programs and services. By enhancing and developing specific commuter support products, we were able to capitalize on the relationship with individual business “Gatekeepers” and get directly to the system users/commuters. Based on survey respondents, this focus on the businesses, the Gatekeepers, and the direct emphasis on the individual commuters enabled the Bravo Campaign to achieve more than a 25% increase in non-single occupancy vehicle participation over the baseline study. The project was completed in November of 2002 and an the results were reported to the joint Bellevue/Redmond City Councils.
 

Bikestation at Overlake Transit Center
Overlake Transit Center at NE 40 Street

BTTI Contribution: $150,000 
Description: This project completes the capital funding package to construct a bicycle commuter station at the Overlake Transit Center near the Microsoft Campus, Safeco Insurance, and other major employers in the Redmond/Overlake area. The Bikestation is intended to have secure and protected bike parking with amenities and services such as a valet who watches over the bicycles, a coffee cart, on-site bicycle repair and sale of accessories, restrooms, ATMs, transit pass/ticket sales, and other services. The project helps improve integration with the regional transit system and encourages and supports sage use of bicycles to make or complete commute trips.
Status: Building completed April 2003.