Service Area
Workforce Accessibility
A full transportation demand management practice. We help employers and communities cut drive-alone trips, ease parking and congestion pressure, and connect workers to jobs reliably and cost-effectively.
Overview
Midwest Land & Transport builds and runs transportation demand management (TDM) programs: the mix of commuter benefits, vanpool and rideshare, transit partnerships, parking and curbside strategy, flexible-schedule policy, and first and last mile service that moves a workforce without defaulting to a car for every trip. We bring the operating discipline of large-scale logistics together with the public-sector stewardship that mobility programs require.
Shuttles are one tool in that toolkit, and we design and procure them when the numbers support it. The practice starts further upstream, with how to move people most reliably and affordably given the site, the shifts, and the budget. Whether you're writing an employer TDM plan, reducing single-occupancy trips to a hospital or campus, standing up commuter benefits, or rethinking a shuttle program that has outgrown its cost model, we structure the strategy, the operation, the procurement, and the cost model so it can run, scale, and be defended.
Who it's for
- Economic development agencies
- Local governments and municipalities
- Employers (hospitals, universities, fulfillment, manufacturing)
- Event planners and venues
Deliverables we produce
Lead-delivered
- Employer TDM plans and trip-reduction strategy
- Commuter benefits and transit subsidy programs
- Vanpool, carpool, and rideshare programs
- First and last mile worker connections
- Parking and curbside management at worksites
- Mode-shift and single-occupancy-trip reduction analysis
- Commuter shuttle program design and route optimization
- Campus and district circulator feasibility
- Construction workforce mobility planning
- Fleet operations assessments
- Vendor procurement and RFP development
- Cost modeling and spend analysis
Selected experience
Detailed case studies are coming soon. Recent and prior engagements include:
- Workforce mobility and shuttle operations across Amazon's North American fulfillment network
- Service planning and procurement support with the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) of Northeastern Illinois
- Vendor management and cost modeling for high-volume mobility operations