Transportation Management Plan

Our project is attempting the ID credit. Do you have any examples, or at lest any guidelines of what is considered an acceptable comprehensive transportation management plan?

We have bicycle racks, we have prefered parking for carsharing, we have a shuttle system to connect to high quality transit that is outside the 1/2 mile radius, and we have a program that promotes carpooling.

Would this be enough?

I am working on getting some examples that we can upload here, but don't yet have client permission. In the mean time, I can give you some general guidelines and ideas.

As for any exemplary performance ID credit, you need to be able to demonstrate a clear and (to the extent possible) quantitative benefit or improvement over the LEED credit in question. In your case, it sounds like the three things that you're doing are specifically addressing some or all of three LEED credits (SS 4.1, 4.2, and 4.4) but it's not clear as to whether or not you're going above and beyond them. An overall transportation management plan should include clear policies that show how the building owner is taking efforts to reduce conventional single occupancy vehicle programs in a way that is successful above and beyond the basic credit requirements.

For example, instead of just adding bike racks and showers, perhaps there is a company-wide program to educate people on commuter bike skills and safe routes to work, a bike-buddy program, reduced cost bike locks or equipment, etc. It would also be helpful to show a quantitative increase in bike commuting through a transportation survey. LEED likes numbers, so anything you can do to demonstrate performance will help.

Some of the other strategies that I have included for this ID credit include:

-Internet website to facilitate ridesharing
-Reduced membership costs for Zipcar, which is a carsharing program popular in some cities in which you can rent cars by the hour inexpensively.
-"Guaranteed ride home" program in which employees can be reimbursed for taxi rides home in the case of an emergency
-Bike shuttles (this enables people to ride the bus up a hill in the morning and ride their bike down it in the evening)
-Discounted and pre-tax transit passes
-A plan or purchasing policy that demonstrates a clear direction toward alternative fuels (for vehicles owned by the building owner, not individual employees/occupants)