• Austin, Texas Commuter Resources

    CASE STUDIES

Movability members use a variety of services and options to help mitigate the impacts of traffic on their employees and on their bottom line. Click on the links to read about each employer’s mobility work.

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Wild About Music

Wild About Music is a small, locally based business with four brands that all participate in the Move Pass program. By providing commute assistance for employees, Wild About Music has seen improved recruitment and retention as well as a reduction in absenteeism.

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Google

Google purchases bulk transit passes for its downtown Austin employees. Using Movability's MovePass program made the monthly process of purchasing and distributing passes much easier for the tech company, and gave Google usage data on the passes as well.

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Archer Malmo

When moving offices, Archer Malmo leadership wanted to grow staff without paying for more parking spaces. Movability helped the agency design a new commute benefits package and market those commute options to employees.

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Something Cool Studios

Something Cool Studios used funding from Movability's GoGrant program to build a custom bike rack that acts as a placemaking piece of public art as well as providing much-needed bike storage.

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MOD Bikes

MOD BIKES has been a partner member with Movability since 2019, and is on a mission to build sustainable transportation solutions that connect people to their community, end fossil-fuel dependency, and offer movement without constraint.

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Movability

Movability is Central Texas’ transportation management association (TMA) working hand in hand with organizations to improve the region’s economic vitality by connecting organizations with mobility options that save time and money.

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Maxwell Locke & Ritter

“Maxwell Locke & Ritter has been a member of Movability since 2012. Our firm believes wholeheartedly in the mission, and that all businesses, large and small, should do what they can to help reduce traffic congestion. Movability provides the expertise, information, and guidance to make doing so an easy task."

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University of Texas at Austin

With over 75,000 visitors to campus each day, parking at the University of Texas is a limited commodity. UT Parking and Transportation Services (PTS) manages the 12 parking garages and surface lots on campus and devotes considerable time and resources to promoting alternatives to single-occupancy vehicle trips to and from the Forty Acres.

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Cirrus Logic Smart Commute Workplace Program in Austin, Texas

Cirrus Logic

In 2011 Cirrus Logic was getting ready to move from its former headquarters at Loop 360 and MoPac to a new home in downtown Austin, and as part of that move Cirrus’ leadership also started thinking about better ways to get employees to work. Not only would commute times change, a downtown location had implications for parking availability and for filling the streets with more cars. The company began working with Movability in order to...

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Texas Mutual Commuter Benefits

Texas Mutual

Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Company knows that traffic in Austin impacts more than just our time – it’s also a quality of life and work issue.

The company took on the Mobility Challenge in 2016 because it saw addressing mobility as a way to attract and retain top workers. Jeremiah Bentley, Senior Manager for Marketing and Community Affairs with Texas Mutual, says the nature of the business allows the company to provide...

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NetSpend Downtown Austin Commute

NetSpend

NetSpend – a leading provider of reloadable prepaid cards – first contacted Movability Austin in 2014 when they began running out of parking spots for their 384 downtown employees. The growing company knew that they needed to help connect employees with other commute modes, and they began exploring ways of doing that.

Participating in the Mobility Challenge gave NetSpend a chance...

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University Federal Credit Union Austin Texas Commute

UFCU

University Federal Credit Union was one of the earliest Mobility Challenge adopters, participating in the first Mobility Week in 2014. By taking the Mobility Challenge to reduce the number of employees driving alone at peak rush hours the credit union wanted to improve both the well-being of the community and its employees.

“UFCU recognizes how congested roadways impact our community and in particular our employees,” says Jeff Flanagan,...

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Austin, Texas Employee Commuter Benefits

AMD

When the Mobility Challenge began in 2014, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) was one of the first companies to participate – and since taking the challenge, the company has continued to connect employees with mobility options.

Problems on both a micro and macro scale – time wasted in traffic and air pollution – prompted AMD to take the challenge. The company has...

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Endeavor Real Estate Group Commuter Benefits

Endeavor

Full service commercial real estate company Endeavor Real Estate Group joined the Mobility Challenge in 2016 both to take on an active role as a corporate leader and to help improve employee morale and retention.

“It was a request made by our mayor, and we wanted to be good, constructive ‘corporate’ citizens,” says Becky Heston, Principal with Endeavor. “That’s what brought the Mobility Challenge to our attention, but we also recognized...

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Silicon Labs Austin, Texas Employee Commuter Benefits

Silicon Labs

Austin’s Silicon Labs is located in the heart of downtown, which is great for walking to meetings and restaurants and being part of a vibrant business district – but not so great for employees driving in rush hour traffic to get to work.

“Our employees experience traffic on every possible corridor, from downtown streets to freeways and toll roads, to get to work every day,” says...

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Ride Sharing and Carpooling in Austin, Texas

Amplify Credit Union

Member-owned financial cooperative Amplify Credit Union has been in Austin since 1967, long enough to see a lot of traffic growth in this city! With locations all over the Austin area, Amplify knows that long commutes and transportation costs add up to cause huge stress on team members. The credit union is also growing and adding more workspace for added team members can be a challenge. With that in mind, Amplify joined the...

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