Alameda Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment

The former Naval Air Station at Alameda Point is planned to be home to 2,000 new housing units and four million square feet of commercial development. Because the City of Alameda is an island with constrained entry and exit points, the transportation strategy for this major new development was vital to a successful land use program. The transportation strategy combined progressive land use, Transportation Demand Management, and transit strategies to aggressively reduce auto trips. An innovative package of transportation improvements was identified, including transit queue-jumping lanes, a Bus Rapid Transit system, carsharing, a bicycle station, monthly transit subsidies, and mixed use transit nodes. Rigorous trip generation analysis and travel demand forecasting techniques were used to assess the transportation impacts of land use alternatives and the effects on roadway connections between Alameda and Oakland. The goal of the transportation program is to reduce off-site vehicle trips by 30 percent for commercial uses and by ten percent for residential uses, when compared to typical developments.