Impacts
Actions taken through Arlington County’s mobility management programs strive to improve mobility for residents, employees and visitors. Actions result in Impacts in the choices Arlingtonians make among the multimodal mobility options available to them. Better choices result in higher Benefits enjoyed by the traveler, the community, and the planet.
Impacts are the direct results of specific and collective actions of Arlington’s mobility management policies and practices. These programs produce significant impacts in terms of reduced single-occupant vehicle (SOV) trips.
SOV trips are converted to more sustainable modes of transportation. Almost three-quarters of trips are converted to transit, i.e. rail and bus.
In FY 2012, mobility management programs collectively reduced more than 45,000 SOV trips each work day. Over the year, almost 10,553,500 SOV trips were reduced.
