LEARN HOW TO SAVE MONEY, IMPROVE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS, AND GREEN BUSINESS PRACTICES: - Get updated on tolling and construction impacts. - Save money on transit costs with discounted ORCA passes for employees. - Reduce business expenses through transportation related tax credits and King County incentives. - Implement telework and flexible work schedule programs. - Use free online tools to engage employees and incentivize transit, carpool and bike commuting. - Green your business practices and reach company sustainability goals. - Design a custom commute program that uniquely fits your company culture and budget. This seminar is intended for transportation coordinators, office managers, human resource coordinators, and other company decision makers.

1. Smart Commute Choices for
Employers

2. •Vision: Keep downtown Seattle economically competitive, improving access to
and within downtown by reducing drive-alone commute trips.

3. D

4. Downtown Limits to
Drive-Alone Commuting

5. 2010 Survey Findings
The majority of
Downtown Seattle
employees do not
drive alone to work
Commute Seattle 2010 Center Commuter
Mode Split Study

6. Joe Commuter ACME Corp XYZ Building,
ABC Properties
Decision
Maker Enabler Influencer

7. Factors affecting downtown
commuters
•Rising fuel prices
•Tolling on the 520 Bridge
•Downtown road construction

8. Rising Gas Prices

11. Good To Go! transponders
www.wsdot/goodtogo

12. Alaskan Way Viaduct Construction

13. Mercer Corridor Project

16. Seattle Transit Service
Transitscore Heatmap

17. Better Transportation Options
• Light rail downtown and expanding
• Bicycle infrastructure improving
• Rapid Ride Bus coming downtown 2012

19. Better Access to Information

21. Real-Time Transit Info

23. Commuter Benefits Becoming
More Valuable

24. Commuter Benefits
• Highly valued and relatively inexpensive
• Decrease your company’s carbon footprint
• Improve employee morale and productivity
• An accessible downtown is good for business
• Cost savings and tax benefits
• WA Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) Regulations

25. What can Employers do?
• Employee Parking Policies
• Promote Carpool and Vanpool
• Promote Cycling and Walking
• Allow Telework/Compressed Workweeks
• Provide access to Zipcars
• Purchase ORCA Transit Passes

26. What can Employers do?
• Employee Parking Policies
• Promote Carpool and Vanpool
• Promote Cycling and Walking
• Allow Telework/Compressed Workweeks
• Provide access to Zipcars
• Purchase ORCA Transit Passes

27. Parking is Expensive!
For 20
Monthly Annual
employees
$285 $3,420 $68,400

28. The Multi-Modal Commuter

29. Employer Parking Strategies
• Shared Spaces
• Free or Discounted Parking Days
• Parking Cash-outs

30. Parking Cash-out Example
• Joe currently receives a $300 parking
permit
• ACME Co offers a $150 cash-out
option
• Joe spends the $150 to park when he
needs to, and carpools, bikes and
busses when convenient
• ACME Co saves $1,800 per year

31. What can Employers do?
• Employee Parking Policies
• Promote Carpool and Vanpool
• Promote Cycling and Walking
• Allow Telework/Compressed Workweeks
• Provide access to Zipcars
• Purchase ORCA Transit Passes

32. Share a Ride
• Carpool
• Vanpool
• Vanshare

33. RideshareOnline.com
powered by brilliant commuters. like you.
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34. Find a match
Enter your starting place,
destination and your trip times. See where each
person’s commute
starts and ends.
Specify if you want to drive and Choose your match
include specific details. and make contact.
RideshareOnline.com
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35. Enter trip details.
Click the date
…and you’re done.
Choose your mode.
RideshareOnline.com
RideshareOnline.com
powered by brilliant commuters. like you.
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36. Manage incentives, rewards, prize drawings
Enter incentive
program details
Sometimes it takes extra
incentives to get people
started.
RideshareOnline.com can
help manage and track
your incentive and reward
programs for you.
You set the rules.
Employees watch their progress.
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37. What can Employers do?
• Employee Parking Policies
• Promote Carpool and Vanpool
• Promote Cycling and Walking
• Allow Telework/Compressed Workweeks
• Provide access to Zipcars
• Purchase ORCA Transit Passes

38. Active Transportation
• Cyclists and pedestrian
commuters are healthy,
happy, productive workers
• CDC recommends 30 min
daily exercise
• Easy to combine with
transit

39. Business Change Agent
Workshops
• Bike to Work Month and Beyond:
Encouraging Employee Bike Commuting
• April 11, 2012

40. What can Employers do?
• Employee Parking Policies
• Promote Carpool and Vanpool
• Promote Cycling and Walking
• Allow Telework/Compressed Workweeks
• Provide access to Zipcars
• Purchase ORCA Transit Passes

41. • Telework
• Compressed Work Week
• Flexible start times
• Off-site work centers

42. Compressed Work Weeks

43. What can Employers do?
• Employee Parking Policies
• Promote Carpool and Vanpool
• Promote Cycling and Walking
• Allow Telework/Compressed Workweeks
• Provide access to Zipcars
• Purchase ORCA Transit Passes

44. Zipcar for Business
• $7.75-13.50 per hour
• All inclusive (Gas,
insurance, 180 miles, garage
parking)
• Zipcar/ORCA incentives
available

45. What can Employers do?
• Employee Parking Policies
• Promote Carpool and Vanpool
• Promote Cycling and Walking
• Allow Telework/Compressed Workweeks
• Provide a Guaranteed Ride Home
• Purchase ORCA Transit Passes

46. ORCA

47. What is ORCA?
• 7 transit agencies
universal pass
• Fare payment card
using smart chip
technology
• Tap at payment reader
• Seamless transfers
• Many revalue options

48. Types of ORCA Accounts
• ORCA Personal Account
• ORCA Business Choice
• ORCA Business Passport

49. ORCA Business Choice
• Monthly passes
• Bus, Rail, ferry, Vanpool
• “PugetPass”
• E-Purse
• E-Voucher
• Monthly ordering, retail pricing

50. ORCA Business Passport
• Deeply discounted, annual,
comprehensive, unlimited, bundled
transit pass
• Unlimited rides on:
– All regional buses
– All regional rail
– King County Water Taxi
• Fully subsidized
Vanpool/Vanshare
• Home Free Guarantee

51. Home Free Guarantee
• Emergency taxi service for employees who
commute via non-drive-alone modes
• Eligible employees receive up to 8 FREE cab
rides a year, up to 60 miles each time

52. ORCA Business Passport
Rules:
1. Company must have at least 5
employees to qualify
2. Company must purchase
Passport for ALL Full Time
benefited employees
3. Company must subsidize at
least 50% of the cost of the
Pass

53. Considerations ORCA Choice ORCA Passport
Contract and Payment Monthly Annual
Yes with monthly passes, no
Unlimited rides Yes
with E-purse
Cost Retail rate Deeply discounted pass
Company chooses who to ALL full time benefited
Eligible Employees
include employees
As much or as little as company
Employer Contribution At least 50% from company
decides
Home Free Guarantee
No Yes
Included
Monthly, can be time
consuming to individualize Minimal to no administration
Administrative duties
employees needs

54. ORCA Business Choice Monthly Pass Pricing
Type of Pass Monthly Price Annual Cost
Metro: One-Zone Peak $90.00 $1,080.00
Metro: Two-Zone Peak $108.00 $1,296.00
Light Rail: Tukwila Station to Downtown Stations $108.00 $1,296.00
Sound Transit multi County express bus: $108.00 $1,296.00
King County Water Taxi: Vashon/Seattle $135.00 $1,620.00
Sounder Train: Tacoma $171.00 $2,052.00
ORCA Business Passport Pricing
Type of Pass Monthly Price Annual Cost
ORCA Passport in CBD (net of rebate and card fee) $41 $490

55. Passport Benefits
Saves money
• Reduces commute, meeting, and airport transportation
costs
Unlimited rides
• Allows employees to get to work conveniently and
affordably and enjoy transportation benefits after-hours and
on weekends
One pass covers all employees’ commute needs
• Significantly reduces administrative burdens and allows the
company to offer an equitable transportation benefit to all
employees
Sustainability
• Helps green business practices and reduce company
greenhouse gas emissions

56. Pre-Tax Commuter Accounts
• Employees specify an amount of
their pay to be reserved before
payroll taxes are deducted to buy
transit or vanpool fare media and
or qualified parking
• The employee saves federal
withholding and FICA payroll
taxes on the amount deducted.
The employer saves paying FICA
on the amount deducted.

57. Price Comparisons
Cost to Cost to
If Employer: Employee Employer
Does Nothing $90 $0
Administers pre-tax benefit $62 Saves $7
Subsidizes $45 per month +
administers pre-tax benefit $30 $42
Purchases ORCA Passport and pays
50% (employee uses pre-tax) $14 $ 17
Purchases ORCA Passport and pays
100% $0 $41
Subsidizes 100% of monthly pass $0 $90

58. Current Employee Use
• You may want to survey
your employees to learn
about their current
transportation modes and
frequency.
• Commute Seattle can
conduct this survey and
send you the results.

59. Sample Cost Comparison

61. What can Employers do?
• Employee Parking Policies
• Promote Carpool and Vanpool
• Promote Cycling and Walking
• Allow Telework/Compressed Workweeks
• Provide access to Zipcars
• Purchase ORCA Transit Passes

62. Incentives!
• FREE telework consultant available
with King County Metro
• Up to $15,000 available for changing
your company’s current parking policy
• Up to $60/employee available through
state B&O tax credit
• $200 Zipcar driving credit available for
new Passport companies

63. Employer Commuter
Awards/Certifications
National Washington King County
State

64. Live More. Drive Less.
Thank you.
Mike Rimoin
MikeR@CommuteSeattle.com
(206)613-3132