Regional Fare Integration and BayPass Unlimited Transit Pilot

David Sorrell, Mobility Manager and Campus Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Administrator for the UC Berkeley Campus and Ryan Reeves, Principal Planner, SF Bay Area Rapid Transit presented Regional Fare Integration and BayPass Unlimited Transit Pilot at the ITS Berkeley Transportation Seminar on February 3, 2023.

Abstract: Regional Fare Integration and BayPass Unlimited Transit Pilot MTC, Bay Area transit agencies and county transportation agencies are working to make the region's transit network better coordinated and more affordable. This presentation will share more information on the development and implementation of Clipper BayPass – a two year pilot for unlimited transit access throughout the Bay Area. UC Berkeley will also share an update on the annual campus commuter survey.

Bio: Ryan Reeves is a Principal Planner at BART, managing the Clipper BayPass unlimited transit pilot. Prior to her work at BART, she worked at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), serving as the agency's Vision Zero Program Manager. She has more than 10 years of experience in transportation programs and policies, primarily in transportation demand management (TDM), active transportation, and traffic safety. Her graduate work at UC Berkeley’s Master of City Planning program focused on evaluating equity in Vision Zero traffic safety programs and policies. During her graduate program, she worked as a researcher at the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC).

Bio: Dave Sorrell, MOL, TDM-CP, is the Mobility Manager and Campus Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Administrator for the UC Berkeley Campus for the last three years, He oversees a transportation program with awesome interns (the “TDM hypeteam”) to help get out the message “going further, faster, together!” He prioritizes fostering relationships with public and private entities in ensuring all 60,000 students, faculty, and staff are corrupted into taking alternative transit modes and contributing to reducing congestion and greenhouse gasses, including working with partners both in and out of Campus. He serves as the P& T’s marketing & communications manager, webmaster, transit planner, sustainability research arm, and of course, TDM. Over the course of the nearly six years he’s served on the campus, the focus of his unit is to assertively promote alternative transportation in the face of COVID, strengthening and advocating for the student transit pass program, and leveraging mobility justice lenses in the TDM Strategic Plan to promote mobility justice and access for the Berkeley Community. He works with the Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT), the International Parking and Mobility Institute (IPMI) and Seamless Bay Area in incorporating not only Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into transit planning but also to further enhance mobility justice regionally and nationwide.