DPRT Program

This program provides a one-stop online resource for businesses to start or expand a formal teleworking program. By allowing employees to perform some or all of their duties from home, companies can help reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality, and create a flexible and competitive workplace. Many businesses experience bottom line benefits from a teleworking program. This doesn’t mean employees work from home every day. One day a week or two days a month can be a big benefit to businesses and employees.

The Teleworking VA website lays out a clear path to start or expand programs, provides case studies and testimonials, sample documents and policies, and many other tools to help businesses get started. Resources and training modules for managers and teleworkers are also provided to help develop and implement a successful, customized teleworking program.

DRPT has created the Van pool VA program to increase the number of van pools and the use of van pooling in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Vanpool!VA program was developed with input from Transportation Demand Management (TDM), transit agencies and vanpool companies.

The goals of the Vanpool!VA are to increase the number of people we move through Virginia’s roadways and to provide vanpooling as a commute option throughout Virginia. To achieve these goals, the Vanpool!VA program is dedicated to increasing the number of vanpools operating in Virginia and increasing the overall ridership of vanpools throughout Virginia. Expanding vanpooling will help address highway congestion by moving more people through Virginia’s congested corridors, improve air quality, and provide mobility options for commuters.

Another goal of Vanpool!VA is to collect vanpool data for the purpose submitting the data in the National Transit Database (NTD) for the purpose of receiving more FTA 5307 transit funding. Another purpose is for DRPT to report on the number of vanpools, ridership and areas of operation. In the large urban areas, Northern Virginia/Fredericksburg, Hampton Roads and Richmond, it is intended that the vanpools operators would report vanpool data directly to those agencies. For the small urban areas, DRPT may collect the data and transfer the data to the transit agencies in those areas. DRPT will work with those transit agencies to determine the best way to handle data collection and reporting.

DRPT is accepting Statement of Interest from eligible organizations and companies interested in receiving financial assistance through

Vanpool!VA.

Vanpool!VA program financial assistance is available for following projects:

Start new vanpools (VanStart)
Keep vanpools operating when more than one vanpool rider leaves the vanpool (VanSave)
Sustain vanpools
Increase vanpool ridership