An increasing share of workers would avoid congestion through transit, flextime, telecommuting, carpooling, and other nontraditional work and commuting arrangements. The greater share of new jobs and housing near transit will make it more likely that people can commute via transit, even when they change jobs. Congestion and related delay hours would not decline for rush-hour auto commuters; but more workers would be using alternative modes or other work options, so that the delay hours per person or per employee would decline.

Currently, 34% of the region’s workers spend more than a half hour in their car to get to work; and 7% spend more than an hour in the car.

Objectives:

• Fewer than 34% of the region’s workers will have an auto commute that takes more than 30 minutes.
• The proportion of people walking or biking to work will increase from 17% to 25%.
• The proportion of commuters who carpool will double.
• There will be an increase in the number of jobs within one hour via transit for the region’s residents.
• There will be an increasing proportion of workers who telecommute at least one day per week.
• Total annual delay of 23 hours (2005 delay) per person will not increase.