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for employees who use transit and vanpools. The ability of the County to attain its CTR goal will have a significant impact on parking and traffic demands. More aggressive methods of incentives will be required in the future to meet these goals. For example, it is estimated that use of carpools for commuting will need to increase from 14% of employees to 21% for all employees, exempt or not, while transit usage will need to increase from 5% to 15% for all employees Future employee parking demands have been calculated in Section 6 using the FTE employee growth shown above and both current travel behavior and future travel behavior to meet the CTR goals. 5.3 Fleet Vehicles County vehicles currently constitute a significant part of the parking facilities owned or leased by the County. The projected use of County fleet vehicles was based of the growth of County employees, particularly the administrative group. The future number of fleet vehicles and parking spaces was therefore calculated as proportionate to the growth of the administrative FTE employees. The number of County vehicles and the number of parking spaces required could potentially be reduced by using a more central booking and dispatching center where vehicles could be shared between departments. Alternatively, substantial parts of the fleet could be garaged in an off-campus location with shuttle services. 5.4 Jurors Jurors in Snohomish County are effectively encouraged to drive alone for jury duty by the policy of providing free parking or reimbursing parking costs. Our surveys indicated that few, if any,jurors use transit or non-motorized travel modes. It is understood that jurors in King County and Pierce County are not provided with free parking. They are mailed a bus pass along with the jury summonses and then reimbursed for further bus travel. If they wish to drive alone and park near the courthouse. they must find commercial parking and pay for the parking out of their own pocket. It will likely be very difficult to change the travel behavior of Snohomish County jurors immediately. If the bus pass alternative was introduced in Snohomish County, it is expected that most jurors would still drive their own vehicles because of the relative availability of on-street parking and the relatively low-cost of off-street parking in downtown Everett. However, the bus pass concept is being pursued on the basis that it will have impacts on behavior over the longer term. 5.5 Customers and Visitors Travel behavior for customers and visitors and visitors can be affected in several ways. First, by making improvements in transit, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, more customers and visitors will be comfortable using these alternate modes. Secondly, travel behavior can be significantly changed by alternate ways of delivering information and services. Many services and information can be delivered by electronic CRI Transportation Impact Analysis Page 11 June 2002