Transportation Options Program

Updated February 4, 2025

5-Year Strategic Plan is now available

We've developed a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Programs 5-Year Strategic Plan to guide our programs for the next 5+ years. This Plan directly supports the priorities established in the Seattle Transportation Plan, including reducing transportation emissions and encouraging the use of non-drive alone travel options. Through this work, we identify ways to improve our existing programs as well as further expand our offerings to new audiences beyond the traditional focus on 9-to-5 commuters, including residents, visitors, and more. Work to implement the plan is already underway and more updates will come to this space soon!   

SDOT’s Transportation Options group is focused on fostering sustainable mobility.   Through citywide Transportation Demand Management (TDM), strategies, our work  decreases reliance on single occupancy vehicles and  supports  people walking, rolling, biking, scooting, riding transit, and using alternative work arrangements like telework and flexwork. Shifting trips to these options means less congestion and decreased emissions, as well as a better travel experience around the city.  

We support SDOT's vision to provide safe and affordable access to places and opportunities. The Seattle Transportation Plan sets a goal of 63% of all trips in the city to be taken by walking and rolling, biking and scooting, and taking transit by 2044. The Transportation Options team implements vital strategies in support of this goal. 

Our Approach to Supporting Transportation Options

Our program portfolio advances goals in the following areas:

Awareness

People are more aware of and utilize a variety of travel modes for all trips. 

Sustainability

Transportation options lead to fewer vehicle miles traveled and fewer greenhouse gas emissions. The negative impacts of the transportation system are reduced and more equitably distributed.

Livability

Transportation options make communities more livable by providing better access to opportunities and creating more vibrant public spaces.

Visualize the impact of your transportation options

Here are 200 people in 177 cars

Here are 200 people in 177 cars

Here are 200 people without cars

Here are 200 people without cars

Here are 200 people on bikes

Here are 200 people on bikes

Here are 200 people on three buses

Here are 200 people on three buses

Here are 200 people on one light rail train

Here are 200 people on one light rail train

Here are 200 people in 177 cars

Here are 200 people in 177 cars
Here are 200 people without cars

Here are 200 people without cars
Here are 200 people on bikes

Here are 200 people on bikes
Here are 200 people on three buses

Here are 200 people on three buses
Here are 200 people on one light rail train

Here are 200 people on one light rail train

Transportation

Adiam Emery, Interim Director
Address: 700 5th Ave, Suite 3800, Seattle, WA, 98104
Mailing Address: PO Box 34996, Seattle, WA, 98124-4996
Phone: (206) 684-7623
684-Road@seattle.gov

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The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is on a mission to deliver a transportation system that provides safe and affordable access to places and opportunities for everyone as we work to achieve our vision of Seattle as a thriving, equitable community powered by dependable transportation.