Green Action Centre will be hosting
the following ecoMOBILITY (Transport Canada)
webinar on Special Events & TDM (Transportation Demand Management) on Wed, Jan. 12th. If you
would like to join us, please let me know at beth@greenactioncentre.ca. Hope you can join us!
cheers,
Beth
925-3772
Webinar: Special Events & TDM
Date: Wednesday, Jan.
12, Noon to 1:00 p.m. CST
Location: EcoCentre boardroom, 303 Portage Ave, third floor (enter via elevator inside front
doors of MEC)
Sporting events, concerts, town celebrations…they
all involve a lot of people trying to get to the same place at the same
time. How can you sustainably plan transportation for these types of
events? How can you convince attendees to walk,
cycle, or take public transit to special events instead of using their
cars?
In order to manage dramatically increased
transportation demand during the 2010 Olympic Games, TransLink (Metro
Vancouver's regional transportation authority) and its partners set the
ambitious goal of reducing vehicle use by at least 30%
during the Games. In this ecoMOBILITY webinar, JoAnn Woodhall from TransLink will speak about the highly successful measures put in place to not only
transport Olympic spectators, volunteers, and staff, but also to provide
local commuters and businesses with travel
options that would keep commuters, customers, and goods moving during
the Games. She will also discuss the monitoring and measurement of these
initiatives, and how the quantitative data TransLink obtained is
helping to prove the value of transportation demand
management in Vancouver.