Pima Association of Governments' Travel Reduction Program is mandatory for employers that have more than 100 full-time equivalent employees at a single or contiguous worksite. Pima County and its municipal jurisdictions adopted travel reduction ordinances in 1988 as a travel demand strategy following a 1985 civil lawsuit (McCarthy vs. Thomas). The lawsuit demanded that the jurisdictions prepare approvable plans, containing all reasonably available control measures to attain the air quality standards at the earliest possible time in order to meet the requirements of the federal Clean Air Act. Employers with fewer than 100 employees can volunteer to participate in the program.

2010 Program Requirements

• Appoint a Transportation Coordinator
• Disseminate travel reduction information to employees
• Notify TRP staff of any changes at the worksite, such as downsizing, transportation coordinator changes or relocation
• Complete theTravel Reduction Activity Inventory Report (annual plan) in June 2010
• Conduct the employee survey every four years. Twenty-five percent of the TRP employers will submit the survey in 2010

For more information, please contact Ruth Reiman at rreiman@pagnet.org or (520) 792-1093.

• Pima County Ordinance (129KB PDF)
• Tucson Ordinance (24KB PDF)

• Sun Rideshare
• Major Employer Locations 2008, 3.6MB PDF or Interactive Map

• TRP Annual Report
• TRP FY 2009-10 2nd Quarter Report (1.1Mb PDF)
• TRP Survey
• TRP Employer Recognition
• TRP Regional Task Force
• TRP Arizona Revised Statutes

TC Newsletter

• December 2009 (463KB PDF) 
• September 2009 (2,198KB PDF) 
• June 2009 (1,352KB PDF) 
• March 2009 (2,353KB PDF) 
• September 2008 (851KB PDF)
• December 2008 (433KB PDF)

Transportation Coordinator Spotlight

The University of Arizona is a large population center in the middle of Tucson hosting 55,000 students, staff and faculty traveling to campus each day. The big question is how does the UA get all those people to their destination in a timely, affordable, safe and efficient manner while reducing pollution and
congestion?

Sun Rideshare asked Charles Franz, the UA TRP Transportation Coordinator, TRP Task Force member and Program Coordinator for Alternative Transportation Programs with Parking and Transportation Services (PTS). Charles said that PTS provides a variety of transportation options so that people do not have to drive a car to campus. For instance, there is Cat Tran which is a free circulator that travels around campus and to popular destinations off campus.