Active travel co-benefits of travel demand management policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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2014-04-01
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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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