Most Transportation Master Plans for major urban areas in Canada establish targets for transportation demand management. Typically these targets focus on transit modal shares or transit use; however, approaches for developing the actual targets vary considerably. Some municipalities "back-calculate" required mode split targets by examining future peak hour road capacity deficiencies on a screenline basis. Other areas adopt a broader approach and simply assume that if rapidly growing auto use is bad, than more transit use must be good, and consequently set very high goals for transit mode shares. This paper will present a critical review of how and why traditional transportation mode share targets are failing to result in more sustainable transportation, as measured by reduced growth in auto usage and increased transit use. A proposed approach is outlined for establishing and achieving urban transportation targets, including a framework that bases transportation targets on auto use as well as transit mode shares. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E211426.
Samenvatting