Doing the Alternative Commuting Transportation Survey

How to conduct your commuting survey

SSc4: Alternative Commuting Transportation, focuses on documenting your building occupants’ use of alternative transportation modes for commuting to and from the project building. Option 3 allows you to comply with the credit requirements by conducting a survey of your regular building occupants’ commuting behavior over a five-day period. In practice, the majority of project teams who attempt this credit do so with the commuter survey.

It is important to make sure that your survey adheres to SCAQMD Rule 2202 procedures, a set of guidelines that helps you to properly structure your survey and ensure that the results capture an accurate assessment of occupant commuting behavior.

The following strategy will review best practices for developing, distributing, and conducting your commuting survey. You may also refer to the sample survey language in the SSc4 Documentation Toolkit to review a completed example.

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