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
  • Transportation Management Associations (TMAs)
  • Transportation Demand Management encyclopedia (TDM)

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
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• Carsharing