A. "City" means and refers to the city of Petaluma.

B. "Average vehicle ridership (AVR) calculations" means AVR for the work site(s) shall be calculated by dividing the number of employee days summed over the survey week by the number of vehicle trips summed over the survey week.

C. "Employee survey" means a form designed to provide information to calculate AVR for the work site. It will ascertain how the employee travels to and from work.

D. "Peak period" means 6:00 a.m. through 10:00 a.m., Monday through Friday, inclusive.

E. "Carpool" means a vehicle occupied by two to six people traveling together between their residence and their work site or destination for the majority of the total trip distance. Employees who work for different employers, as well as non-employed people, are included within this definition as long as they are in the vehicle for the majority of the total trip distance.

F. "Vanpool" means a vehicle occupied by seven to fifteen people traveling together between their residence and their work site or destination for the majority of the total trip distance. Employees who work for different employers, as well as nonemployed people, are included within this definition as long as they are in the vehicle for the majority of the total trip distance.

G. "Buspool" means a vehicle occupied by sixteen or more people traveling together between their residence and their work site or destination for the majority of the total trip distance. Employees who work for different employers, as well as nonemployed people, are included within this definition as long as they are in the vehicle for the majority of the total trip distance.

H. "Vehicle trip" means a trip based on the means of transportation used for the greatest distance of an employee’s home-to-work commute trip for employees who start work during the peak period. Each vehicle trip to the work site shall be calculated as follows:

I. "Commute" means the home-to-work or work-to-home trip.

J. "Commute alternatives" mean carpooling, vanpooling, public transit, bicycling or walking, or alternative routing.

K. "Employer" means any person(s), firm, business, educational institution, government agency, non-profit agency or corporation, or other entity that employs persons. Several subsidiaries or units that occupy the same work site and report to one common governing board or governing entity or that function as one corporate unit are considered to be one employer.

L. "Employee" means any person employed by a person(s), firm, business, educational institution, nonprofit agency or corporation, government or other entity, including independent contractors. The term excludes the following as defined elsewhere in this rule: seasonal employees; temporary employees; volunteers, field personnel; and field construction workers.

M. "Seasonal employee" means a person who is employed for less than a continuous ninety-day period, or an agricultural employee who is employed for up to a continuous sixteen-week period.

N. "Temporary employee" means any person employed by an employment service that reports to a work site other than the employment service work site under a contractual arrangement with a temporary employer.

O. "Field personnel" means employees who spend twenty percent or less of their work time at the work site and who do not report to the work site during the peak period for pick-up and dispatch or an employer-provided vehicle.

P. "Field construction worker" means an employee who reports directly to work at a construction site.

Q. "Volunteer" means a person who does not receive wages for work activity at the work site.

R. "Independent contractor" means an individual who enters into a direct written contract or agreement with an employer to perform certain services. The period of the contract or agreement is at least ninety continuous days, or is open-ended.

S. "Transportation coordinator" means the person designated by the employer who is responsible for daily administration of employer requirements under this chapter.

T. "Employee transportation coordinator" means an employee, other individual, or entity appointed by an employer to develop, market, administer, and monitor the employer trip reduction program or employer trip reduction plan on a full or part-time basis.

U. "Work site" means a structure, building, portion of a building, or grouping of buildings that are in actual physical contact or are separated solely by a private or public roadway or other private or public right-of-way, and that are occupied by the same employer.

V. "Work site employee threshold" means one hundred employees at a single work site, on an average daily basis, for a ninety-day period provided at least fifty employees are normally scheduled to report to the work site on a daily basis during the peak commute period.

W. "Employee day" means each day of the survey week that an employee starts work during the peak period. Notes: Employees telecommuting or who are off due to a compressed work week schedule are counted toward the total employee days. The following employees are not counted toward the total employee days:

X. "Compressed workweek" means a regular full-time work schedule that eliminates at least one round-trip commute trip (both home-to-work and work-to-home) at least once every two weeks. Examples include, but are not limited to, working three twelve-hour days or four ten-hour days within a one-week period; or eight nine-hour days and one eight-hour day within a two-week period.

Y. "Telecommuting" means a system of working at home, off site, or at a telecommuting center, for a full workday, that eliminates the trip to work or reduces travel distance by fifty percent or more.