Browsing by Author "Denten, Kaitlyn"

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    Feasibility of Electric Car-Sharing in a Suburban Environment: Team Equity
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2022) Wuebker, Jessica; Maktar, Ayub; Denten, Kaitlyn; Tabura, AJ
    This project was completed as part of a partnership between the City of Edina and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Edina is committed to providing clean, abundant, equitable, and accessible transportation options to all who live, work, and travel through the community. Edina’s newly passed Climate Action Plan includes goals to reduce community-wide vehicle miles traveled by 7% by 2030, and increase battery electric vehicle utilization to 25% of community-wide rolling stock. The City is also committed to prioritizing low-income household transportation opportunities. Edina project lead Grace Hancock collaborated with a team of graduate students enrolled in Professor Frank Douma’s course, PA 5232/CEGE 5212: Transportation Planning, Policy, and Deployment, to review literature, best practices, and case studies of electric car-sharing services in peer suburbs in Minnesota and elsewhere around the country with respect to ensuring equitable access. The students’ final report and PowerPoint presentation are available.
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    OnePass: A Vision for a Modern and Equitable Pass System
    (2023) Denten, Kaitlyn; Lehman, Joseph; Narayana Moorthy, Kribashini
    The ways people are living and working in the Twin Cities are changing, which brings both uncertainty and opportunity to Metro Transit. This report explores how commuting patterns have changed during the Pandemic and beyond. Due largely to the Pandemic and the rise of telework, Metropass, the employer subsidized transit program has declined heavily. It is known, however, that transit is still needed and used by some of the region’s most vulnerable communities who are not currently served by the Metropass product. This report analyzes Metropass as a fare product in the context of the new normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The recommendations in this report cover equity, ridership, and finance/resilience themes and goals. These recommendations provide a baseline for how to modify the Metropass product to meet the changing needs of Twin Cities residents today. Our recommendation, OnePass, has the potential to incentivize greater transit ridership, making transit safer and providing increased accessibility for all.