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Transportation Management Associations
Transportation Management Associations (TMAs) provide coordinated transportation services in a specified geographic area. TMAs provide transportation planning, programs and services to complement and expand upon existing services available through public and private agencies, including private employers.
Services
- Pedestrian planning
- Bicycle planning
- Carsharing
- Rideshare and vanpool coordination
- Coordinated parking services
- Shuttle and taxi services
- Improved public transportation
- Marketing services (including maps and wayfinding materials)
- Financial incentives
Opportunities for a TMA in Northeast Ohio
- Downtown Cleveland- Cleveland State University
- 147,000 workers
- 15.8 million visitors
- 8,000+ residents (Downtown Cleveland Partnership fact sheet)
- University Circle- University Hospitals / Case Western Reserve University / Cleveland Clinic / Museums
- 40,000+ workers
- 2 million visitors
- 12,000+ residents (fact sheet)
- I-271 Corridor - UH / Cleveland Clinic / Progressive Insurance
- Downtown Akron - University of Akron / Summa Health
Existing elements of a TMA in Northeast Ohio
Northeast Ohio has a number of existing organizations that maintain individual programs and services that are transportation focused. However, there is no organization charged with coordinated planning that crosses jurisdictional, private/public, or funding boundaries, leaving the programs and services below to stand on their own.
A TMA provides this missing coordinated planning function - within an existing organization, or as a stand alone umbrella transportation planning organization which would plan and partner with other organizations. A TMA also tracks specific goals, metrics, and desired community outcomes - for instance, reduced commute times, congestion, pollution or increased number of transit riders, parking available to visitors, bike parking spaces, etc.
Below are some of the existing elements and agencies/organizations responsible for the services:
- Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA)
- Ohio Rideshare and Ohio BikeBuddies programs
- Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) and The New Freedom programs
- University Circle, Inc. (UCI)
- Circle Link shuttle
- University Hospitals and CWRU commuter parking shuttles
- UH and CWRU evening parking shuttles
- Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA)
- Downtown loop/trolleys
- Commuter advantage and guaranteed ride home programs
- Student U-Pass
- Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA)
- The Bike Rack and bike rental program
- Parking inventory
- Akron Metropolitan Transit Study (AMATS)
- Akron METRO
- Private services
- Cleveland Clinic parking shuttles (PDF)
- Cleveland taxi services - partial listing
- Zipcar (a carshare company serving Cleveland State University and downtown)
Resource links
- Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Existing TMA programs
- Sacramento Transportation Management Association
- A Better City TMA (Boston)
- TMA Delaware
- Transportation Management Association of San Francisco
- The TMA Group (Nashville)
- Buckhead Area TMA (Atlanta)
- Oakland TMA (Pittsburgh)
- Lloyd TMA (Portland)
- Directory of TMAs in the United States (PDF)
- Transportation choices
- The great highway transformation
- The five eras of transportation in Northeast Ohio
- Transportation as opportunity space
- Planning an unsustainable transportation system
- Principles of sustainable transportation
- Changing fundamentals of transportation
- Action agenda for moving into the future
- Transit oriented development
- Biking and walking agenda
- › Transportation Management Associations
- Carsharing
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