Active travel co-benefits of travel demand management policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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• Creators:
  Rodier, Caroline J. ; Lee, Richard ; Haydu, Brandon ; Linesch, Nicholas J.
• Corporate Creators:
  Mineta Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  California. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Research ; United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Travel demand management
  • Public health
  • Walking
  • Bicycling
  • Activity choices
  • Land use planning
  • Vehicle miles of travel
  • Pricing
  • Risk assessment
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  CA-MTI-14-1109 ; MTI Report 12-12
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  California
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mineta Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  There is increasing evidence that improved health outcomes may be a significant co-benefit of land use plans and transport policies ; that increase active transport (or “active travel”)—walking, biking or other physical activity for the purpose of transportation—as ; they reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). A greater understanding of these benefits may broaden the constituency for ; regional planning that supports local and national GHG reduction goals. In this study, California’s activity-based travel demand ; model (ABM) is applied to (1) demonstrate how this new generation of travel models can be used to produce the active travel data ; (age and sex distributions) required by comparative risk assessment models to estimate health outcomes for alternative land use ; and transport plans and to (2) identify the magnitude of change in active travel that may be possible from land use, transit, and ; vehicle pricing policies for California and its five major regions for a future 2035 time horizon. The results of this study suggest that ; distance-based vehicle pricing may increase walking by about 10% and biking by about 17%, and concurrently GHG from VMT ; may be reduced by about 16%. Transit expansion and supportive development patterns may increase active travel by about 2% ; to 3% for both walk and bike modes while also reducing VMT by about 4% on average. The combination of all three policies may ; increase time spent walking by about 13% and biking by about 19%, and reduce VMT by about 19%.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT12-G-UTC21
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26026/dot_26026_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 535.35 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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