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· "BEST SITES" -The New BWC Designation

Best Workplaces for Commuters "BEST SITES" is a new designation created for commercial and retail developers, shopping malls, business campuses and other multi-employer developments. To receive this designation for the Site location, the BWC "Best Sites" Standard of Excellence must be met. With this designation, “Best Sites” maintains an active partnership with BWC through designation of a Property Transportation Coordinator (PTC). In addition to that requirment, the Standard of Excellence is met through

committments in facilities and improvements, parking management, and promotions, services and polices that support commuters.

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Congratulations to our first "BEST SITES" designees: Access Tysons, Towers Crescent, and Britannia Oyster Point.

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Race To Excellence Winners Announced!

The Race to Excellence awards recognize organizations who have taken exemplary steps to offer transportation options such as vanpool and transit benefits or telework and

compressed workweek for their employees. BWC encourages sustainable transportation innovation and the awards recognize companies who offer highest level of commuter benefits. The winners were announced Thursday, January 31, 2013 during the annual “Race to Excellence” Virtual Awards Ceremony. This year participants were awarded in four categories: Employer, Employer (under 100), Supporting Agency, and University. And the winners are . . .

Employers - Gold

* U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, GA * Central Arizona Project, AZ

* Inova Health System, VA * Booz Allen Hamilton, VA

* Tindale-Oliver and Associates, Inc., FL (employer under 100)

Employers - Silver

* Compuware Corporation, MI * Pfizer – Greenwheels, NC * Quarles & Brady LLP, AZ * Yale-New Haven Hospital, CT

Supporting Agencies - Gold

* Fairfax County Department of Transportation, VA * State of Arizona, (Capital Rideshare), AZ

* Suburban Transit Network, PA * Smart Trips, TN

Supporting Agencies - SIlver

* CommuterLink/511NY Rideshare- NY * Commuter Services, FL

* reThink, Orlando, FL

University - Gold

* Stanford University (“Best of” 2011)

*University of California, Irvine

* University of California, Los Angeles * University of North Carolina at Greensboro * University of Pennsylvania

* University of South Florida * Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

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Best of

* “Best of” Employer Award - Booz Allen Hamilton, VA

* “Best of” Supporting Agency Award - Smart Trips, Knoxville, TN * “Best of” University Award - University of North Carolina Greensboro * “Best of” Small Employer Award - Tindale-Oliver and Associates, Inc., FL

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USF Lakeland Campus

Florida's USF Lakeland Campus has achieved CUTR'S Best Workplaces for Commuters and Gold Level Partner Rating from FDOT's District 1 Commuter Assistance Program

USF Lakeland has been working in partnership with the Commuter Services District 1 Program since August of 2008. They joined together with Polk State College, Polk County, the City of Lakeland and other numerous organizations to encourage commuters to use alternatives to drive-alone by collaborating in strong partnerships. USF Lakeland Campus has demonstrated a commitment to marketing, outreach and program development efforts. This includes participating in large commuter campaigns and healthy initiatives to encourage and increase carpooling, walking, bicycling, free universal transit subsidies, along with demonstrating a high percentage of student and staff program participation.

The new commuting transit agreement established by USF Lakeland allows 1,650 students, faculty, and staff the option of riding the entire Polk Transit fixed route system for free. The USF Lakeland

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Student Government is covering the monthly fee of $2,475 for the free rides.

An official new bus wrap dedication and commuter awards ceremony was held on February 6, 2013 at the USF Lakeland Campus.

Left to right, Christine Diaz-Pagan, Commuter Services Program Director; Thom Phillips, Lakeland Area Mass Transit Director, and Interim Polk Transit Director; Richard Shine, FDOT District Transit Programs Administrator; John Hall, Polk County Commissioner; Keith Merritt, City of Lakeland Commissioner; Brian Goff USF Student Government President; Ed Smith, Polk County

Commissioner; George Lindsey, Polk County Commissioner; Philip L. Winters, TDM Director, Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR); and Gow Fields, City of Lakeland Mayor and Commuter Services Program Ambassador.

The awards were presented to Dr. Kathleen Moore, USF Lakeland Campus Director, (not photographed).

City of Orlando

On Monday, December 3, 2012, the City of Orlando was recognized as a "Best Workplace for Commuters" at its City Council meeting. The Florida Department of Transportation's Regional Commuter Assistance Program, known as reThink, assisted the City of Orlando in receiving their designations.

"Since I became Mayor, I have stressed the need to focus on transportation and giving our residents - and employees - options outside of their automobiles," said Orlando Mayor Dyer. "I am proud of this recognition and the efforts we have taken to connect our community to multi-modal transportation alternatives."

More employers are taking a look at the impacts the daily commute has on productivity, as well as retaining and recruiting quality employees. Offering commuter benefits is also viewed as a way to expand employee benefits in a cost-effective way. Courtney Miller, reThink Program Manager, believes this is the start of a trend, especially with SunRail less than two years away from operation, which will give downtown commuters even more options to get to work.

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Courtney Miller, reThink Program Manager; Buddy Dyer, City of Orlando Mayor; F.J. Flynn, City of rlando Transportation Planning Division Manager; Emily Thompson, City of Orlando Transportation lanner (and our ETC); Diane Poitras, FDOT District 5 Transit Analyst; and Maria Neff Caulder, City f Orlando Fiscal Manager.

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Newest Members of Best Workplaces for Commuters

* IBM - San Jose, Almaden, CA * IBM - Boulder, CO

* IBM - San Jose, Silicon Valley, CA

* Lee County Board of County Commissioners, Fort Myers, FL * Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center, San Rafael, CA * SRA International, Inc., Arlington and Fairfax, VA

* University of South Florida, Lakeland, FL * University of Washington, Seattle, WA * City of Orlando, FL

*HDR, Inc., Orlando, FL

BEST SITES

* Access Tysons, McLean, Fairfax County, VA * Towers Crescent, Vienna, Fairfax County, VA * Britannia Oyster Point, San Fransisco, CA