Employee Transportation Coordinator Resources

Check out our CTR Recorded Trainings below to earn credit toward your training hours. To get advanced training credit for watching the recording, please complete the ETC Webinar Survey once you have reviewed a webinar.

The following links are excellent resources for additional recorded transportation webinar content. If you find a webinar in one of the links below that looks interesting to you and would support your program, send us an email and we'll review for content and time to ensure we give you proper credit for your training hours.

Association for Commuter Transportation
Center for Urban Transportation Research
Transportation Research and Education Center

Topics in this month's newsletter include:

• Reimagining Bike Month 2020
• Survey Reminder
• Smart Commuter Rewards
• Available Trainings

Click here to read May's news for ETCs.

Topics in this month's newsletter include:

• Transit Service Temporarily Reduced in Response to COVID-19
• Public Comment Needed for Northgate Link Rail Project
• Snohomish County Survey Open until May 8
• Available Trainings

Click here to read April's news for ETCs.

• Community Transit’s COVID-19 Response
• 2019 Q4 Report Feedback Reminder
• Agencies Looking for Service Change Feedback
• Available Trainings
• The Benefits of Using RideshareOnline

The following is the current Employee Transportation Coordinator Program Guide you receive at Basic Training, broken out by chapter and in digital PDF format:

Employee Transportation Coordinator Program Guide
Chapter 1: Get to Know Commute Trip Reduction
Chapter 2: Explore Commute Options
Chapter 3: Craft a Successful CTR Program
Chapter 4: You're Not in This Alone

There isn’t a lack of Bike Month activities spanning May through September. The Bike Month 2020 Guide offers ideas and resources from trusted resources on how to inspire your employees to embrace the power of the pedal not just for commuting, but also for staying healthy and safe in the new normal.

The Bike Month 2020 Guide

Use this voucher for all Guaranteed Ride Home requests. Includes instructions for use.

Guaranteed Ride Home Voucher

If you need to order materials related to your CTR program, please use this order form. If you need something not included in the list of items, please contact our team directly at ctr@communitytransit.org.

Transportation Materials & Display Order Form

 

To meet your transportation fair requirement, here are resources including:

• Transportation Events Best Practices
• Transportation Fair Checklist
• Poster Template
• Digital Display Template
• Commute Options and Benefits Brochure Template

You can view a recorded training on Hosting a Successful Event or Fair in the CTR Recorded Trainings below.

Let us know you are planning an event and we will follow up with some guiding questions and get your event logged into our tracking tool.

This brochure is recommended for new hires during onboarding, at transportation fairs/tabling events, and to have in your transportation board displays.

The brochure has yellow highlights where you fill in your site specific information including company and ETC name and contact info. Under the “Commute Options” and “Commute Benefits” headings you can remove and add options and information that applies to your location and company. 

Download the brochure and customize for your worksite:
Commute Options and Benefits Brochure Template (Word)
Note: Print landscape 2-sided short edge binding

This poster is a great way to post your contact info at your worksite so employees know who to contact for transportation information.

ETC Poster Template

Fill out this template with your potential carpool/vanpool information and post around your worksite. Let us know if you would also like us to share with nearby worksites.

Riders Wanted Template

This zip code map is an example of an employee original map using zip codes that we can help you create to promote carpool and vanpool options by showing employees that they live close to other employees.

If interested, email CTR@commtrans.org. We will work with you to create your own zip code map.

Zip Code Map

 Sample email - encourage employees to record trips in RideshareOnline.com.

Ross and Sherry recap CommuteCon, an annual TDM convention that was held online in April. They highlight relevant sessions from thought leaders discussing behavior change, data, transportation innovations, telework and more, and provide links to the associated videos.

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Presentation Slides

This training counts as 1 hour toward your 6 required annual training hours. To get advanced training credit, please complete the ETC Webinar Survey once you have watched the webinar.

We cover the all-important question of how to get management to support your CTR Program. Why is it important? What are some tips and tricks? The discussion at the end includes a short brainstorm with ETCs going over their scenarios, challenges and successes.

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Presentation Slides

This training counts as 1 hour toward your 6 required annual training hours. To get advanced training credit for watching the recording, please complete the ETC Webinar Survey once you have reviewed the webinar.

Strategies for Making Everyday Bike to Work Day (Recorded 2/27/20)

Hosted by our friends at Bikes Make Life Better, Heidi Speight from Tableau shares her team’s efforts to encourage cycling as a commute option and to build a vibrant internal bicycling community. If you need inspiration, this webinar is the perfect Bike to Work Day motivator.

View the presentation slides here.

Community Transit’s Alex Mehn walks step-by-step through the newly-released comprehensive ETC Program Guide. The guide is complete with program requirements and planning worksheets, as well as tips from successful CTR efforts in our Community Transit CTR program. A digital copy of the ETC Guide is available under CTR Worksite Program Materials.

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View the Presentation Slides

This training counts as one hour toward your 6 required annual training hours. To get advanced training credit for watching the recording, please complete the ETC Webinar Survey once you have reviewed the webinar.

Get ready for 2020 and kick start your plans! Generate some new ideas and initiatives with this training. Training goes over some resources including a 2020 CTR Program Planning Worksheet and 2020 Planning Calendar.

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View the Presentation Slides

This training counts as 1 hour toward your 6 required annual training hours. To get advanced training credit for watching the recording, please complete the ETC Webinar Survey once you have reviewed the webinar.

Didn't make this conference? It's ok! Ross shares some relevant highlights from the Association for Commuter Transportation TDM Forum he attended in November 2019. Be inspired by some of the leading programs in the country and learn from the challenges they face. Ross provides key takeaways from relevant sessions.

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View the Presentation Slides

This training counts as 1 hour toward your 6 required annual training hours. To get advanced training credit for watching the recording, please complete the ETC Webinar Survey once you have reviewed the webinar.

This training goes over all things transportation fair/events. From in-person events to static displays and digital slides, learn what resources are available to you in order to fulfill your transportation fair requirement. If you have an upcoming event or fair, are thinking about what you will do or might like to do to change up your approach, this is a training for you!

Original training held on July 16, 2019.

Watch the Recording (skip to 13:01 minutes for the beginning)

The new customer-facing site upgrades launched and this training goes over all the beauty and technical issues in the latest RideshareOnline.com update. What's changed, what looks the same, and some back-end administrative tricks to solve some of the calendar and ridematching problems we've been hearing from worksites.

Original training held July 12, 2019.

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Sonja from our vanpool staff joins us in discussing the sometimes complicated but always rewarding methods for kicking off or expanding vanpooling at your worksite. Two modes work best in Snohomish County: Carpool and Vanpool. Here's your chance to become an expert on the latter.

Original training held on July 9, 2019.

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This training discusses the individual transportation options, when they may work best at your worksite, and some tips for promotion. If it's been awhile since you've been through ETC Basic Training, it's a great refresher!

Original training held on July 2, 2019.

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We’ve heard you loud and clear- you want a training on the various apps and web-based tools that help with transportation planning, trip tracking, and ride matching in the Puget Sound. This brand new presentation will be touching on many of them, and the benefits/challenges of use. I’ve tried to highlight every major travel mode with at least one tool that makes it a bit easier. New and veteran ETCs alike will see something new!

Watch the recorded training here. 

Original training held on Friday, March 9^th, 2018

Learn how to run a trip plan for a transit or bike trip for yourself and your employees, and tips on going beyond the systems.  We’ll primarily be using the regional TripPlanner system, but we’ll also jump over to Google Maps, some third party apps and tools, and even a PDF of a paper map and schedule book.

Training was originally held on January 24 at 11:00 a.m. Online Only. This training will count as 1 hour toward your required 6 annual training hours. 

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Training covers how to get ready for your winter commute. The original training was held on November 29, 2018.

Watch recorded training here
Download the PowerPoint

This training explored the options available for covering the first or last mile of a commute.  The original training was held on September 6, 2018.

Watch the recording of the training here. 

This training covered all aspects of RideshareOnline.com. Training was originally held on Tuesday, August 21 at 2:00 p.m. .

This training has been recorded.  This training will count as 2 hours towards your required 6 annual hours of advanced training upon completion of the following. *Please note the Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) section is no longer relevant as we do not use RideshareOnline.com to administer GRH anymore. See Guaranteed Ride Home Voucher under CTR Worksite Program Materials section above for updated GRH process.

• Watch the recording of the training RSO Basic Training
• RSO Basic Training Slide Deck (PDF)
• Email that you have completed watching the recording

Please contact CTR@commtrans.org if you have any questions.   

This training covers how to set up a challenge in your worksite network.  This training was originally held on 6/5/2018 at 2:00 p.m. and has been recorded.  This training counts as 1 hour toward your required 6 annual hours of training. 

Creating Challenges in RSO Recorded Training
Creating Challenges in RSO Manual
How to Join a Challenge (PowerPoint "How To" for your employees)

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RSO Network and Reporting covered:

• RSO administration functions
  • Populating your network
  • Network clean up
  • Communicating with employees
  • Utilizing reward and incentives
• Quarterly report
• End-user functions
• ETC resources

Original training was held on Thursday, January 25, 2018. This training counts as 1 hour toward your 6 required annual training hours.

Download the slide deck
Watch the recorded training

Discover how Facebook was able to get employees out of their cars and on their bikes. Watch Bikes Make Life Better and send an email to CTR@commtrans.org for training credit.