Mayor White’s Flexible Workplace Initiative not only makes good business sense - it makes a measurable difference in Houston’s mobility.
As part of his five point mobility plan, Mayor White realized that one of the most cost effective ways to impact Houston’s mobility is to encourage employers not to have all of their employees trying to arrive to the same place at the same time. The traffic engineers informed Mayor White that a relatively few number of cars eliminated off the roads during a peak congestion period can have a measurable difference in that roadway’s mobility.
As a result of Mayor White’s Flexible Workplace Initiative, 3 mobility studies have been completed:
a City wide mobility study conducted in connection with Flex in the City.
Westheimer/Chimney Rock mobility study in connection with Duke Energy’s offering compressed workweeks.
NASA Parkway/Bay Area mobility study in connection with Johnson Space Center’s implementation of their Maxiflex, flexible work options.
Each of these studies have shown that a small change can have a measurable difference - even when it comes to Houston’s traffic.
Traffic management experts who helped collect and evaluated the data were Isaac Joskowicz P.E., PTOE (Chair of the Mayor’s Flexible Workplace Mobility Measurement Committee) with Brown and Gay Engineers, Inc., and Tony Voigt, PE with the Texas Transportation Institute. Others involved with the Mobility Measurement Committee include Nelson B. Nuckles, P.E. with S&B Infrastructure Ltd., Jeff Weatherford P.E., PTOE with City of Houston, and Carol Nixon, P.E. with the Texas Department of Transportation. They all very generously donated their personal time as well as significant resources from their respective organizations in support of the Mayor’s Flexible Workplace Initiative. The Flexible Workplace Initiative offers a special thanks to each of these individuals and their organizations.
