Parking Smarter: Utilizing TDM as a Parking Management Tool
Track Description:
Airports are more than just runways and terminals, they’re economic engines, major employment hubs, and destinations. As they continue to grow, Transportation Demand Management (TDM)offers a powerful toolkit for reducing congestion, enhancing mobility for travelers and employees, maximizing parking operations, and strengthening connections with surrounding communities and jurisdictions.
This track explores how airports are deploying innovative TDM strategies and can forge partnerships with cities, MPOs, and regional agencies to create seamless, multimodal transportation networks. From high-level policy and funding approaches to on-the-ground infrastructure and behavior change initiatives, sessions will spotlight real-world success stories, stakeholder engagement strategies, and targeted planning tools.
Attendees will also uncover how airport-driven insights can be applied to other large-scale activity centers like healthcare campuses, universities, and retail districts where mobility complexity meets diverse user needs.
Whether you're managing airport operations, overseeing city/regional planning, or leading mobility efforts, this track will help you think big, plan smart, and build better connections on the ground and beyond.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how airports are integrating TDM strategies to reduce congestion, improve access for travelers and employees, and support environmental sustainability goals.
- Explore effective models for collaboration between airports and surrounding cities, MPOs, and transit agencies to improve multimodal connectivity and land use coordination.
- Apply human-centered planning tools, including persona exercises and community engagement strategies, to design more inclusive, responsive, and efficient airport-area transportation systems.