NEW YORK CITY CARSHARE PILOT Community Board Briefing February 2018 1
Concept and Context 1 nyc.gov/dot 2
CHALLENGE OF CONTINUED GROWTH The City must use its streets as efficiently as possible to move people and goods. This means increasing the share of residents who walk, bike, and take transit. DOT believes that shared-use mobility options such as carshare complement these goals. nyc.gov/dot 3
CARSHARING An element of shared use mobility: providing reliable access to a car without having to worry about annual car insurance and maintenance bills Members are provided access to an automobile for short-term use usually by the hour or minute. The cost includes gas and insurance. nyc.gov/dot 4
ROUND-TRIP CARSHARE Zipcar (Avis Budget), Enterprise CarShare Hourly or daily rentals Borrow and return vehicles at same location Focused in areas with private garages Existing Service in New York City: Zipcar: 2,500+ cars / 447 locations Enterprise CarShare: 320+ cars / 110 locations nyc.gov/dot 5
ONE-WAY CARSHARE Car2Go Service Area Car2Go (Daimler), ReachNow (BMW) Pick up a car at one location and drop it off at another (within zone) Users can park in any legal, unmetered parking space within zone Existing Service in New York City: Car2Go: o 550 Smart cars o 27,000+ members ReachNow: o 250+ BMWs & MINI Clubmen nyc.gov/dot 6
The benefits of carsharing for New York City 2 nyc.gov/dot 7
CARSHARE PILOTS IN OTHER CITIES Many US cities have run carshare pilots DOT looked at best practices from cities that conducted pilots to encourage carshare, such as San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C., Boston, and Hoboken. These pilots included: o dedicating curbside spaces for carshare o requirements to expand coverage of carshare services to underserved neighborhoods nyc.gov/dot 8
IMPETUS FOR PILOT: CARSHARE RESEARCH The results from other cities show carsharing has measurable benefits Round-Trip 1 One-Way 2 Members who sold a personal vehicle 23% to 32% 2% to 5% Members who suppressed purchase of a personal vehicle 29% to 68% 7% to 10% Personal vehicles removed* per carshare vehicle 5 to 20 cars 7 to 11 cars Average reduction in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per member 44% 6% to 16% *Removed vehicles = sold and suppressed 1) Mineta Transportation Institute, Carsharing and Public Parking Policies: Assessing Benefits, Costs, and Best Practices in North America, March 2010 2) Elliot Martin and Susan Shaheen, Impacts of Car2Go on Vehicle Ownership, Modal Shift, Vehicle Miles Traveled, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, July 2016. nyc.gov/dot 9
Carshare Pilot 3 nyc.gov/dot 10
CARSHARE LEGISLATION City Council Support for Carshare Signed into Law March 21, 2017 Local Law 47: To amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a pilot program for reserving parking spaces in municipal parking facilities Local Law 50: To amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing an on-street carsharing parking pilot program nyc.gov/dot 11
PILOT IMPLEMENTATION Expanding carshare access to all New Yorkers DOT to use permits for carshare parking spaces Pilot in 14 zones with greatest potential for car-shedding &/or mobility benefits All qualified carshare companies may participate Expanded carshare access to low- and moderate-income communities through geographic mandates and incentives for providing discounted rates Pilot evaluation through data sharing and independent analysis nyc.gov/dot 12
PILOT IMPLEMENTATION New curbside regulation and multi-lingual pedestrian signage Carshare companies to clean parking spaces in place of alternate side regulations No Standing regulation, NYPD can ticket and tow illegally parked cars At their own expense, companies can relocate illegally parked vehicles from carshare parking spaces to a legal space within a ½ mile radius COMPANY LOGO HERE LOGO nyc.gov/dot 13
Carshare Outreach & Pilot Siting 4 nyc.gov/dot 14
PILOT PLANNING STAKEHOLDER OUTREACH Carshare briefings with community stakeholders Briefing of Queens Council Members April 2017 Council Member Miller briefing April 2017 CB 12 Transportation Committee June 2017 Outreach to state representatives Summer 2017 Outreach to CB 12 & elected officials December 2017 Briefing to CB 12 Executive Committee January 2018 Site tour with CM Miller staff February 2018 Site tour with CB 12 representatives February 2018 CB 12 Transportation Committee February 2018 CB 12 Full Board Meeting February 2018 nyc.gov/dot 15
PILOT PLANNING ON-STREET OUTREACH Children s Library Discovery Day (9/9/17) Spoke to approx. 70 people Gathered 69 location recommendations Handed out 50 carshare postcards nyc.gov/dot 16
PILOT PLANNING ONLINE OUTREACH Summer 2017 42 feedback portal comments for carshare zones in Jamaica Twitter notifications http://nycdotfeedbackportals.nyc/nycdot-carshare-pilot nyc.gov/dot 17
nyc.gov/dot PILOT PLANNING Jamaica on-street carshare map Based on CB input, DOT revised its map of potential carshare sites on 2/13 The new map locates 9 potential sites at: Hillside Av & 170 St Hillside Av & 180 St Hillside Ave & 185 St Hillside Ave & 187 St Hillside Ave & 189 St Jamaica Ave & 181 St Liberty Ave & 173 St Merrick Blvd & 106 Ave Linden Blvd & 180 St DOT will site up to 18 spaces (2 spaces per site) only at these mapped locations
PILOT PLANNING PROCESS February 5 2018 draft Previous Jamaica carshare map iterations December 2017 draft June 2017 draft nyc.gov/dot 19
PILOT IMPLEMENTATION DOT Parking Facilities Allocation: DOT to reserve 10% or 10 parking spaces, whichever is less, for carshare vehicles in DOT lots & garages Flexibility: spaces only allocated where there is demand from carshare companies NYC DOT will allocate up to 6 spaces in the Queens Family Court garage for carshare nyc.gov/dot DOT Parking Facilities 20
PILOT SCHEDULE December 2016 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Public announcement at City Council Planning and rule change process Permit applications open Permit allocation & sign installation Public and Carshare Company Engagement nyc.gov/dot 21
THANK YOU! Questions? Comments? Visit our website: nycdotcarshare.info NYC DOT NYC DOT nyc_dot NYC DOT nyc.gov/dot 22