What is Transportation Demand Management?
Transportation Demand Management (TDM) is moving people, not vehicles, creating a more efficient use of our roadways. This results in less traffic congestion, better air quality, and even happier, healthier communities. Products and services include encouragement to use alternatives to the single-occupant (SOV) such as ridesharing (carpools and vanpools), taking transit, riding bikes, and walking. Alternatives to commuting such as compressed work weeks, flextime, and telecommuting, as well as parking management tactics such as preferential parking for carpools and parking pricing are also effective TDM strategies.
Two Howard County communities are required to implement TDM programming: Downtown Columbia and Maple Lawn.
Howard County’s TDM Program is Go Howard, formerly Howard Commuter Solutions, offering assistance to employers, employees, and residents about the many different ways to get to your favorite places.
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TDM in Howard County
2024 DTC TDMP Update
In collaboration with the Downtown Columbia Partnership and Foursquare ITP, Howard County has updated the Transportation Demand Management Plan for Downtown Columbia. The plan is available here:
The related Task Memos can be found here:
2018 DTC TDMP:
2024 Downtown Columbia Circulator Study Update
As a condition of its development, Maple Lawn is required to develop Transportation Demand Management practices for use in both the residential and commercial areas of the community. On December 29, 2000, the Zoning Board’s Decision and Order in Case No. 995M incorporated Exhibit 55, a Transportation Demand Management Plan, as part of the proposal to develop Maple Lawn in Fulton, thus becoming a requirement for development of the property. The TDMP states that the developer intended to spearhead the effort to create a coordinated TDM programming and included a funding mechanism of $0.10 per square foot of leasable space in commercial buildings and $30/year for homeowners. Currently, implementation of the Maple Lawn TDMP is the responsibility of two parties: the residential home owners’ association and the developers, Greenebaum and St. John’s Properties.