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Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages: Vision

Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages: Vision. Less auto-dominated suburbs Assumes global warming & peak oil are real Least worst alternative Less than 50% of trips by solo driving Extreme sustainability, cut energy use From 320 mBTU pp per year to 79 mBTU Smart Growth on steroids

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Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages: Vision

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  1. Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages: Vision • Less auto-dominated suburbs • Assumes global warming & peak oil are real • Least worst alternative • Less than 50% of trips by solo driving • Extreme sustainability, cut energy use • From 320 mBTU pp per year to 79 mBTU • Smart Growth on steroids • Controversial • Futuristic, complicated.

  2. Transformational Tools • Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) • Makes carpooling & transit more effective • GPS cell phones to connect • Better carpool “matchmaking” • Small parking charges (automated) • “Cool to be green” culture • Parking lots  housing with retail.

  3. 225 Surveys at Oracle • Vulcan mind meld • Teach suburban solo drivers about carpooling and transit (drawbacks) • Customized for each commute • + Low income worker interviews.

  4. GIS study of 15 Office Parks • Census LEHD • Commute Shed • Aerial photography • Demographics.

  5. Toolkit: Company Town Housing • Walk to work housing for tech workers • Low income upward mobility • De-segregate suburbs.

  6. Toolkit: digital hitchhiking • Bus + safe hitchhiking

  7. Toolkit • Grocery shopping without a trunk • “Cool to be green” culture • All residents sign a green pledge to get housing • Force a tipping point • Supporting culture like EBay on-line community.

  8. Conferences, etc. • Congress for New Urbanism • Rail~Volution • Engineers for a Sustainable World • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) America • Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) • USC Urban Planning School • THE END..

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