1. Employee Transportation Coordinator. The employer shall designate an employee transportation coordinator to administer the CTR program. The coordinator’s and/or designee’s name, location, and telephone number must be prominently displayed physically or electronically at each affected worksite. The coordinator shall oversee all elements of the employer’s CTR program and act as liaison between the employer and the city. The employee transportation coordinator must complete the basic ETC training course as provided by King County within six months of assuming the status of designated transportation coordinator, in order to help ensure consistent knowledge and understanding of CTR laws, rules and guidelines statewide. The objective is to have an effective transportation coordinator presence at each worksite; an affected employer with multiple sites may have one transportation coordinator for all sites.

2. Information Distribution. Information about alternatives to drive-alone commuting shall be provided to employees at least once a year. This shall consist of, at a minimum, a summary of the employer’s CTR program, including ETC name and phone number. Employers must also provide a summary of their CTR program to all new employees at the time of hire. Each employer’s CTR program description and progress report must describe what information is to be distributed by the employer and the method of distribution.

3. Description of Employer’s CTR Program. Each affected employer is required to submit a description of its CTR program to the city on the official form available from the public works department. The CTR program description presents the strategies to be undertaken by an employer to achieve the commute trip reduction goals for each goal year. Employers are encouraged to consider innovative strategies and combine program elements in a manner that will best suit their location, site characteristics, business type, and employees’ commuting needs. Employers are further encouraged to cooperate with each other. At a minimum, the employer’s description must include:

1. A general description of the employment site location, transportation characteristics, employee parking availability, on-site amenities, and surrounding services;

2. The number of employees affected by the CTR program and the total number of employees at the site;

3. Documentation of compliance with the mandatory CTR elements as described in this section;

4. Description of any additional elements included in the employer’s CTR program;

5. A statement of organizational commitment to provide appropriate resources to the program to meet the employer’s established goals.

1. Provision of preferential parking or reduced parking charges, or both, for high-occupancy vehicles;

2. Instituting or increasing parking charges for drive-alone vehicles;

3. Provision of commute ride matching services to facilitate employee ride-sharing for commute trips;

4. Provision of subsidies for rail, vanpool, or transit fares and/or transit passes;

5. Provision of vans or buses for employee ridesharing;

6. Provision of subsidies for carpools, vanpools, walking, bicycling, teleworking, or compressed schedules;

7. Permitting the use of the employer’s vehicles for carpooling or vanpooling;

8. Permitting flexible work schedules to facilitate employees’ use of transit, carpools, or vanpools;

9. Cooperation with transportation providers to provide additional regular or express service to the worksite;

10. Construction of special loading and unloading facilities for transit, carpool, and vanpool users;

11. Provision of bicycle parking facilities, lockers, changing areas, and showers for employees who bicycle or walk to work;

12. Provision of a program of parking incentives such as a rebate for employees who do not use the parking facilities;

13. Establishment of a program to permit employees to work part – or full-time at home or at an alternative worksite closer to their homes;

14. Establishment of a program of alternative work schedules, such as a compressed work week which reduces commuting;

15. Implementation of other measures designed to facilitate the use of high-occupancy vehicles, such as on-site day care facilities and emergency taxi services or guaranteed ride home programs;

16. Provision of incentives for employees that do not drive alone to work;

17. Charging employees for parking and/or the elimination of free parking; and

18. Other measures that the employer believes will reduce the number and length of commute trips made to the site. (Ord. 6218 § 1, 2010; Ord. 5246 § 1 (Exh. A), 1999; Ord. 4602 § 2, 1993.)