SEA MOVES TMA
Contracting
Authority
David Tomporowski
Peter Lindsay
Airport Landside Operations, Port of Seattle
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Meeting Date: January 28, 2025
SEA’s Ground Transportation Framework
Guiding Principles
Goals
Strategies and Tactics
GTAP
SAMP
Operational
Contracts
Taxi, TNC,
other GT
• Reduce
environmental impact
• Reduce roadway
congestion
• Support and improve
customer choice and
experience
• Social equity
• Generate revenue for
sustainable airport
• 50% scope 3 GHG
reduction
• 30% private vehicle
pick-up/drop-off
roadway relocation, NE
GT Facility
Capital
Projects
• Financial
sustainability
• Social Equity
• 15 minutes
tower to curb
e.g.
Widen Arrivals Approach
e.g.
Behavior Change
Modeling, SEA Employee
Transportation Strategy
(SEA MOVES)
e.g.
TNC rematch, garage
utilization
e.g.
e-KPIs, GT electrification
incentive
e.g.
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GTAP Work Item: SEA Employee Transportation Strategy
Providing SEA
Workforce with
Transportation
Resources
SEA MOVES
Employee
Transportation
Program (TMA)
SEA Employee
Commuter Bus
Feasibility
Study
Four Initiatives in 2025:
Immediate service provision
to SEA workers
Launching SEA Airport’s TMA
(“SEA MOVES”):
communications, staffing,
programming
Studying the feasibility of a
dedicated commuter shuttle bus
service for eligible airport employees
SEA Worker
Transit Pass
Pilot Program
An ORCA Card Pilot
Program for SEA
Airport workers
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SEA-managed Employee Transportation Program (our airport TMA)
SEA MOVES will focus on three initiatives…
1. 2.
3.
A central source of
comprehensive commute
information for SEA workers
• Communications
• Outreach
• Events
• Surveying, Monitoring
& Metrics
…all managed by a dedicated staff, who will also perform:
Transit pass
program for
airport workers
Employee Carpool/
Vanpool Program
Active Transportation
Encouragement
Program
• Staffing
• Administration
• Strategic Planning
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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
Annual
Revenue
Fee Amount
Per Month
Per Card
Number of
monthly cards
(projected)
Year
$754,500
$5.0012,5752025
$891,000
$5.5013,5002026
$1,044,000
$6.0014,5002027
$1,209,000
$6.5015,5002028
$1,386,000
$7.0016,5002029
$1,597,500
$7.5017,7502030
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.
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• SEA MOVES staff support and
programming
• Airport employee-only shuttle feasibly
study
• Potential funding for employee-only
shuttle operation
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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Operated by the
Port of Seattle
FlySEA.org
Thank
You!
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2025 Budget Requests for SEA MOVES
Notes2025 Amount / 2026 Full Year2025 Budget Request
One-time consultant
assistance
$100,000 / $0SEA MOVES Operations Planning
2025 amount is for one
quarter
$231,000 / $924,000 SEA MOVES Contractor hiring
Pilot program amounts only.
On-going cost will be
determined after the Pilot.
$500,000 / $1,500,000
SEA MOVES: Transit Pass Pilot
Program
One-time consultant
assistance
$300,000
SEA Employee Shuttle Feasibility
Study
$1,131,000 / $2,424,000TOTAL
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