(a) The Director, after consulting the appropriate Advisory Committee, must conduct a commuter survey, or obtain through other available mechanisms, data on commuting by employees and residents within a defined area. The data must be obtained on a schedule determined by the Director.
(b) The Director, in consultation with the appropriate Advisory Committee, must prepare a survey or other data collection mechanism as necessary to generate information to:
(1) create an accurate data base of employee and resident commuting patterns; and
(2) monitor progress toward reaching any commuting goals set in the Growth and Infrastructure Policy, Master Plans or Sector Plans, as implemented by the Department through Executive Regulations or other adopted policies and procedures.
(c) The Department must distribute the survey to employers; building owners or managers; tenants, condominium and homeowners associations; Transportation Coordinators, and others required to conduct the survey or to participate in other ways in the data collection process, based on a schedule the Director sets. The Department may also collect commuting data through other available mechanisms in addition to or in place of the commuter survey.
(d) Each notified employer, building owner or manager, Transportation Coordinator or other entity must distribute, collect, and return the completed surveys, or otherwise provide the required data through other Department-approved mechanisms. Data collected must be provided to the transportation management organization and the Department within the time period established by the Department.
(e) Any entity required to participate in the commuting survey, or to participate in data collection through another mechanism, must make a good faith effort to generate survey responses or other data from their target population with the objective of achieving at least a 40 percent compliance rate for an entity with a target population of either 100 or more employees or 100 or more residents and 50 percent for an entity with a target population of less than 100 employees or less than 100 residents. The Director may require a smaller or larger response rate from a given worksite, building, or project based on requirements for statistical validity. (1993 L.M.C., ch. 47, § 1; 2019 L.M.C., ch. 28, § 1; 2021 L.M.C., ch. 3, §1.)