Vanpool. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Vanpool" means the nonprofit mode of prearranged commuter transportation of a relatively fixed group of seven to 15 persons, including the driver, between home and work, or termini near home and work, in the Vanpool Vehicle (the group occupancy shall not exceed the Vanpool Vehicle manufacturer's design capacity), that is owned by UTA and leased to Lessee. The Vanpool is intended to provide incentives to persons to make the commute to and from work by a mode other than a single-occupant motor vehicle. The driver and passengers are employees at or near a common location and fees charged, if at all, are designed to recover operating, maintenance, insurance, administration, and reasonable depreciation costs related to the Vanpool.
Vanpool. A vanpool is a group of people who are coming to the same workplace or post-secondary education facility (college, trade school, etc.) from the same community, riding together in a van. Vanpools typically carry from six to fifteen passengers, and operate weekdays, traveling between pick-up locations and a place of work. Vanpools provide small-scale commuter ridership in scenarios where operator costs would otherwise be prohibitively high. Operating costs are very low, because the passengers drive themselves. Ridership per platform hour is healthy; the vanpool doesn’t run at all without a minimum of five regular riders. Vanpools are very demand-responsive; once ridership falls below a threshold, the service goes away and new routes can be added with a minimum of overhead. They can access office parking areas and other locations where scheduled SunLine service cannot reach, making for more convenient passenger drop-offs. Vanpool programs can be administered in a variety of ways, allowing the employer to be fully involved or simply promote it from the sidelines. Employers can help employees form vanpools through rideshare matching. Rideshare matching helps potential vanpoolers locate others nearby with similar schedules. With technology advancements, on-demand vanpooling may help reduce coordination costs and increase ridership. Traditional vanpool programs often have average ridership per trip at just above the minimum membership required for the vanpool. As the region develops unevenly, vanpools will be an increasingly effective means to serve trips from low-density places to employment and education centers. With new vanpool programs, SunLine may be able to pull back bus service from low-volume, coverage routes, and focus on more frequent, trunk routes and core services. SunLine’s Vanpool Program will provide a subsidy for qualified vans. The driver of the vanpool must be a participant in the vanpool program. Vanpool passengers will be responsible for paying the van lease cost minus the subsidy. They will also share the cost of gas, toll fees, and parking fees (if applicable). Passengers will not pay for the maintenance and insurance costs. Vehicles for this type of service will be leased by one of the pre- qualified vendors to one of the commuters in the group, a company, or by a third party representative. Micro Transit SunLine proposes a new approach to connect riders to mainline service by bridging the first mile, last mile gap. Many communities still ...
Vanpool. 5.3.1. Vanpool shall have its own tab on the Trip Planning Dashboard
