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Goals:

Massports ongoing ground access planning goals focus on ensuring that a wide variety of effective and convenient travel options are made available to and from Logan Airport in order to provide all of Logans customers with reliable, economical, and environmentally responsible alternatives to single occupant vehicle use. Such initiatives assist in managing traffic growth on the airport. Massport has established the following goals to address the impacts associated with the major users of Logans ground access system, parking facilities and transportation infrastructure:

Increase air passenger HOV mode share to 35.2 percent by the time Logan Airport handles 37.5 million annual air passengers (in 2005 there were about 27.1 million annual air passengers).
Reduce employee reliance on commuting alone by private automobile;
Increase the overall efficiency of the metropolitan transportation system through interagency coordination;
Improve management of on-airport ground access and infrastructure through the use of updated technology; and
Provide adequate, long-term parking within the limits of the Logan Airport Parking Freeze.

Initiatives:

Striving to ensure that its planning initiatives satisfy goals through the support of transportation alternatives and partnerships with privately operated HOV services, Massport also collaborates with other Massachusetts transportation agencies to explore additional ways HOV ridership can be increased. This includes long-term projects such as the Urban Ring, a proposed 15-mile circular transit corridor, beginning and ending at Logan, and running through the six cities that form the urban core of eastern Massachusetts.

Massport promotes HOV access to Logan Airport by passengers and employees via an array of HOV modes including the MBTA, Logan Express, scheduled HOV services (such as bus or van lines and hotel shuttles), and unscheduled services (such as private limousines or vans). Additional access to Logan Airport occurs in non-HOV modes, including private automobile, taxi and rental car. For an up-to-date listing of the many ground transportation options available to Logan travelers, click here. Massport also produces a variety of publications geared to ground access alternatives in our publications page.