TX: Smart Trips Program Will Create Door-to-Door Strategy to Encourage Alternate Transportation Options in Austin

The city’s transportation department will take up a grassroots, door-to-door strategy to educate and encourage residents to move away from single-occupant vehicle travel, according to a resolution approved Thursday by Austin City Council.

Robert Spillar, director of Austin’s Transportation Department, said “personal anxiety” is often to blame when people don’t use alternate, available transit options.

Smart Trips Program, a national residential-based transportation demand management program, focuses on educating residents through personal interactions on the available transit options. The program offers incentives, such as learn to ride classes, transit instruction and group walking activities. The city began a pilot of the program in late 2015 that targeted some central Austin neighborhoods.

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