Enabling Folks to Drive Less

Fort Collins, Colorado has an extensive program helping people to drive less including an incentive program where people win prizes for using alternative travel. It's called SmartTrips and is described at http://www.smarttrips.org/communities/communityDetail.aspx?communityID=3

Lynn Markham

Land Use Specialist
UW-Extension Center for Land Use Education
College of Natural Resources,
UW-Stevens Point
800 Reserve St. Stevens Point, WI 54481
715-346-3879
715-346-4038 (fax)

Hi Angela & All,

Don't know about midwest (US) models, but here is some info on the TravelSmart programs running in Australia... www.travelsmart.gov.au

Cheers,
Sharon

Angela,

There are various resources, especially if you google lots less cars, less car diet or travelsmart. The Less Car Diet is the rage right now, and you can find lots of it in www.ecoplan.org or www.lotslesscars.org . we also have a publication called public awareness and behavior change in sustainable transport, which is accessible for registered users at www.sutp.org (registration is free and emails are sent only once every two months). You can also check out www.vtpi.org for other resources on this, especially one of their chapters on marketing public transport, etc. You can also contact me directly if you need any help.

Best regards,
Carlos F. Pardo

Coordinador de Proyecto GTZ
Proyecto de Transporte Sostenible
(SUTP, SUTP-LAC) Cl 125bis # 41-28 of 404
Bogot D.C., Colombia
Tel: +57 (1) 215 7812
Fax: +57 (1) 236 2309
Mobile: +57 (3) 15 296 0662
e-mail: [email protected]
Pgina: www.sutp.org