2024 TDM Excellence Awardee: TripSpark Technologies

TripSpark Technologies

2024 Technology & Innovation TDM Excellence Awardee

ACT was thrilled to recognize 2024 TDM Excellence Award winner TripSpark Technologies at the TDM Forum in Charlotte, NC this week. Read below to learn about their impact and accomplishments!

The TDM Excellence Award for technology and innovation goes to TripSpark Technologies, a pioneer in TDM software. Since the mid-1990s, TripSpark’s RidePro platform has empowered TDM professionals by streamlining data organization, reporting, and operations across various transportation options, from ridematching to multi-modal trip planning. As vanpooling gained traction within ACT, TripSpark expanded RidePro to support critical vanpool program metrics for the FTA’s NTD program.

Today, RidePro’s features span Guaranteed Ride Home programs, employer campaigns, fare management, subsidies, and dynamic rider reservations, making it a gold standard for vanpool management. RidePro’s daily support for over 4,000 vanpools helps power TDM programs, saving significant commuting costs and reducing traffic and emissions. Together, TripSpark and its partners move more than 25,000 riders yearly, eliminating over half a billion VMTs annually.

With seamless support for all aspects of vanpool program management, RidePro’s powerful yet user-friendly system is known for rave reviews, even by many in this room. Behind agency-branded interfaces, RidePro powers the real-time reporting, fare management, and effortless processing that make TDM initiatives thrive while eliminating the weeks of data crunching once necessary for NTD reports. 

TripSpark is leading the charge in commuter solutions for the new, flexible workplace. Whether it’s solving the complexities of hybrid scheduling or making occasional carpool and vanpool options accessible, TripSpark’s innovations reflect a commitment to meet every new challenge head-on, creating transportation solutions that make a difference, one ride at a time.

Committed to supporting all transit modes, from Fixed Route and Demand Response to innovative options like microtransit, TripSpark’s dedication lies in promoting the growth and success of alternative transportation. This commitment is underpinned by a spirit of continuous improvement, fueled by a curiosity to meet the evolving needs of communities.

As TDM professionals navigate the challenges of reducing car dependency and supporting sustainable mobility, RidePro empowers them to bring creative, impactful solutions to commuters and employers. In an era where mobility brings great freedom but also fuels congestion, costs, and emissions, RidePro helps commuters save time, money, and reduce pollution. Since the 1990s, it has enabled TDM practitioners to foster smarter, greener transportation choices, building a foundation for healthier, more connected communities.

TripSpark’s long-standing involvement with ACT reflects a deep commitment to the TDM community. Dan Bower, has been a constant at ACT conferences since 1994, and exemplifies this connection, alongside Jesse Kafka, an ACT member since 2008 and current member of ACT's Professional Development Committee. Many of TripSpark’s RidePro clients are also active ACT members, strengthening the mutual support between TripSpark and the TDM community.

Beyond ACT, TripSpark actively engages in the broader industry through its work with other associations, and various regional and state-level transportation groups. As part of the Modaxo family, TripSpark also sponsors the popular Transit Unplugged podcast, which serves as a dynamic platform for industry insiders to discuss innovative approaches, challenges, and solutions that shape transportation in North America and beyond.

For TripSpark’s decades of dedication to TDM technology, we celebrate and congratulate them.

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