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This webinar was led by the ITE Planning Council and Sustainability Standing Committee.
Webinar Description:
For most of the last century, transportation planning has prioritized improvements for automobile travel such as paving and expanding roads, increasing roadway design speeds, providing abundant vehicle parking, and more – making driving cheaper, comfortable, and convenient. However, a new paradigm is changing how we define transportation problems and analyze potential solutions. The old paradigm was mobility-oriented, and measured transportation system impacts based on how projects affected drivers. It assumed that the planning goal was to maximize vehicle travel and evaluate transportation system performance using indicators, such as - roadway level-of-service (LOS), average traffic speed, and the Travel Time Index (TTI). The new paradigm is accessibility-oriented and measures transportation impacts associated with driving. It recognizes that the ultimate goal of most transportation is efficient access to services and activities and that many factors can affect accessibility, including autos and non-auto modes, transportation network connectivity, plus land use factors such as development density and mix.
This webinar explores the reasons for this change, the analytical tools developed to analyze and mitigate VMT, and a review of California’s SB 743 initiative, one of the first and most aggressive efforts to reduce VMT to create a more sustainable future.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain vehicle miles traveled (VMT ) as a performance measure
- Describe ways VMT is being used as a performance measure for various transportation planning applications.
- Learn about California's SB 743 (the level of service to VMT transition for California environmental studies)
- Recall two years of SB 743's implementation, including lawsuits, guidelines, and best practices
- Discuss VMT mitigation has been achieved through transportation planning and engineering practices in California and elsewhere.
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