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Five Questions article:
Five Questions: Kate Sobush, Transportation Planner, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
November 23, 2009
Source: Community Partnership Update/December 2009
 1. Prior to your job as the CDC's Transportation Planner, you served as a transportation planner in Atlanta and Decatur, and also as a public health professional. How does this dual background influence your current work with the CDC?
I've served in this role for one year and my public health and transportation planning experience actively complement each other in this position. It is important to see transportation issues -- vehicles, parking capacity -- through the lens of impact on public health, including air quality, obesity and injury. These should all be examined for their combined effect.
2. What are the CDC's transportation plans?
Our transportation plans include continuing to actively encourage transportation alternatives, reducing the number of personnel commuting to the office at peak periods, and increasing participation in compressed work week and telework programs. At the completion of Buildings 23 and 24, we plan to have approximately 3,550 full-time personnel. This is an increase of around 150 personnel from the current campus population.
3. How will the CDC minimize the transportation impact?
We encourage flextime (flexible work hours that allow employees to bypass peak commute times); alternative work schedules 9compressed work weeks with longer hours and every fifth or tenth day off); and telecommuting (prearranged working from home). In FY08 nearly one quarter of employees on the Roybal campus telecommute at least one day per week, 1,750 employees participated in the alternative work schedule and 4,930 participated in the flextime program. All of these measures take drivers off the streets, especially during peak times.
4. How does the CDC encourage alternative transportation for commuters to the Roybal campus on Clifton Road?
According to our most recent figures for FY09 for Roybal campus commuters, on the average day almost 15 percent use a form of alternative transportation. That translates to 2.7 percent who use transit on an average day, and 6.9 percent who use it at least one day per week. On average, nearly six percent carpool on an average day, and 5.3 percent vanpool. There are smaller numbers of employees who walk (1.3 percent) and bike (2.3 percent) to work at least one day per week.
5. How do you commute to work?
I commute by MARTA bus, rail and by bicycle.
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