David Tomporowski
Peter Lindsay
Airport Landside Operations, Port of Seattle
Item No. 10a_supp
Meeting Date: January 28, 2025
SEA MOVES TMA
Contracting
Authority
SEA's Ground Transportation Framework
Guiding Principles
Goals
• Reduce
environmental impact
• 50% scope 3 GHG
reduction
• Reduce roadway
congestion
• 30% private vehicle
pick-up/drop-off
• Support and improve
customer choice and
experience
• 15 minutes
tower to curb
• Social equity
• Social Equity
• Generate revenue for
sustainable airport
• Financial
sustainability
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Strategies and Tactics
SAMP
e.g. roadway relocation, NE
Capital
Projects
e.g. Widen Arrivals Approach
GTAP
GT Facility
Behavior Change
e.g. Modeling, SEA Employee
Transportation Strategy
(SEA MOVES)
Operational
e.g. TNC rematch, garage
Contracts
Taxi, TNC,
other GT
e.g. e-KPIs, GT electrification
utilization
incentive
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GTAP Work Item: SEA Employee Transportation Strategy
Four Initiatives in 2025:
Providing SEA
Workforce with
Transportation
Resources
SEA MOVES
Employee
Transportation
Program (TMA)
Immediate service provision
to SEA workers
Launching SEA Airport's TMA
("SEA MOVES"):
communications, staffing,
programming
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SEA Worker
Transit Pass
Pilot Program
SEA Employee
Commuter Bus
Feasibility
Study
An ORCA Card Pilot
Program for SEA
Airport workers
Studying the feasibility of a
dedicated commuter shuttle bus
service for eligible airport employees
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SEA-managed Employee Transportation Program (our airport TMA)
SEA MOVES will focus on three initiatives...
1. Transit pass
program for
airport workers
2. Employee Carpool/
3. Active Transportation
Vanpool Program
Encouragement
Program
A central source of
comprehensive commute
information for SEA workers
...all managed by a dedicated staff, who will also perform:
• Communications
• Outreach
• Events
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• Staffing
• Administration
• Strategic Planning
• Surveying, Monitoring
& Metrics
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Review of Request
What: contracting authority for a vendor to operate the airport's Transportation
Management Association (TMA), also known as SEA MOVES, on behalf of the Port
of Seattle
Contract duration: 2-year contract with three optional one-year extensions (for a
maximum duration of 5 years)
Amount: not-to-exceed amount of $5,000,000 (<$1 million each year)
A portion of this contract would be funded by the $5 TMA fee that is included in the
monthly Employee Parking card. Projected revenues for 2025 are $754,500.
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TMA Fee on Tenant Employee Parking Program
Consistent with transportation
demand management (TDM) best
practice, revenues generated from
this fee on tenant parking will be
used for TMA programming that
encourages use of non-drive-alone
modes by airport employees.
Year
Number of
monthly cards
(projected)
Fee Amount
Per Month
Per Card
Annual
Revenue
2025
12,575
$5.00
$754,500
2026
13,500
$5.50
$891,000
2027
14,500
$6.00
$1,044,000
2028
15,500
$6.50
$1,209,000
•
SEA MOVES staff support and
programming
2029
16,500
$7.00
$1,386,000
•
Airport employee-only shuttle feasibly
study
2030
17,750
$7.50
$1,597,500
•
Potential funding for employee-only
shuttle operation
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Potential Uses of Fee
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Next Steps
•
Procurement process for SEA MOVES TMA contractor - Q1-Q2 2025
•
Check in with Aviation Committee as part of GTAP midyear update - Q2
2025
•
Hire and on-board contractor - Q3 2025
•
Open and charter SEA Moves - late Q3 2025
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Thank
You!
Operated by the
Port of Seattle
FlySEA.org
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2025 Budget Requests for SEA MOVES
2025 Budget Request
2025 Amount / 2026 Full Year
Notes
SEA MOVES Operations Planning $100,000 / $0
One-time consultant
assistance
SEA MOVES Contractor hiring
$231,000 / $924,000
2025 amount is for one
quarter
SEA MOVES: Transit Pass Pilot
Program
$500,000 / $1,500,000
Pilot program amounts only.
On-going cost will be
determined after the Pilot.
SEA Employee Shuttle Feasibility
Study
$300,000
One-time consultant
assistance
TOTAL
$1,131,000 / $2,424,000
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