Common use of Private Vehicle Availability Clause in Contracts

Private Vehicle Availability. Given the focus of the UPA project on traffic congestion reduction and mode shift, a series of questions were asked regarding 95 Express users’ level of access to a private vehicle. Responses are summarized in Table 16 below, along with the corresponding information from the 2005 MDT system wide survey and the 2008 UPA survey. N. (Population / Sample Size) 349 572 93 26,990 Car/Vehicle Available for this Trip Yes 66.8% 80.0% 70.4% No 33.2% 20.0% 29.6% 0 10.5% 7.6% 11.1% 32% 1 40.6% 35.7% 32.2% 50% Number of household vehicles 2 36.5% 39.7% 38.9% 13% 3 10.5% 12.6% 12.2% 4 1.5% 3.9% 5.6% 5% 5 or more 0.3% 0.6% 0.0% Level of access to a car/motor vehicle for personal use Always 65.3% 79.1% 77.8% Most of the time 16.7% 10.4% 10.0% Occasionally 9.9% 5.3% 3.3% Never 8.0% 3.8% 5.6% Don't know - 1.5% 3.3% With the 2009 survey sample again generally correlated with the 2008 survey sample, Table 17 shows that the majority of riders, 66.8 percent, have access to a car for their northbound trip on the 95 Express. This percentage is somewhat lower than the 80 percent figure observed in the 2008 survey, but correlates closely with the 70.4 percent figure calculated from the northbound sample of 2008 survey respondents. Overall, it appears that private vehicle availability is slightly lower for trips in the northbound direction, though its also possible that the economic recession may have negatively impacted the level of access to private autos.