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Draft 9/29/14 18.The OHP recognizes that TDM strategies can be implemented to reduce trips and impacts to major transportation facilities, such as freeway interchanges, postponing the need for investments in capacity-increasing projects. 19.An Evaluation of Pricing Policies for Addressing Transportation Problems (ECONorthwest, July 1995) found that implementation of congestion pricing in the Eugene-Springfield area would be premature because the level of public acceptance is low and the costs of implementation are substantial; and that parking pricing is the only TDM pricing strategy that would be cost-effective during the 20-year planning period. Policies F.6 Expand existing TDM programs and develop new TDM programs. Establish TDM bench marks and if the bench marks are not achieved, mandatory programs may be established. F.7Increase the use of motor vehicle parking management strategies in selected areas throughout the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area. F.8Implement TDM strategies to manage demand at congested locations. Transportation System Improvements: System-Wide Findings 20. The number of vehicles, VMT, and use of the automobile are all increasing while use of alternatives is decreasing. Between 1970 and 1990, the number of vehicles in Lane County increased by 83 percent, while the number of households increased by 62 percent. Between 1980 and 1990, VMT grew at a rate seven times that of the population growth. The Regional Travel Forecasting Model projects that, by the year 2015, without implementation of proposed TransPlan projects, non-commercial VMT will increase 52 percent while the percentage who bike will drop from 3.7 percent to 3.3 percent, walk from 8.9 percent to 7.9 percent, and the percentage who bus will increase only slightly from 1.8 percent to 1.9 percent. 21.The OHP recognizes that access management strategies can be implemented to reduce trips and impacts to major transportation facilities, such as freeway interchanges, and that communities with compact urban designs that incorporate a transportation network of arterials and collectors will reduce traffic impacts on state highways, postponing the need for investments in capacity-increasing projects. 22.OHP policy supports investment in facilities that improve intermodal linkages as a cost- effective means to increase the efficient use of the existing transportation system. III-F-6