A Comprehensive Study on the Effectiveness of Office-based TDM Policies

The objective of this thesis is to develop an employer-based Transportation Demand Management (TDM) evaluation tool that can be used for evaluating various employer-based TDM policies. The conventional method of evaluating TDM policies has typically been conducting expensive before and after TDM policy implementation surveys. On the contrary, this research used a pre-policy deployment joint Revealed Preference and Stated Preference (RP-SP) survey, where the data were collected to develop a TDM policy sensitive mode choice model, which is packaged into a software system for TDM investment decision support. The evaluation tool (named Off-TET) developed by integrating the mode choice model predicts changes in modal share by integrating all possible effects of single or multiple TDM policies implemented in isolation or combined. While the tool presented in this thesis was developed for the region of Peel, there exist opportunities for the application of this type of analysis across Canada.M.A.S