Evaluation of sketch-level VMT quantification tools : strategic growth council grant programs evaluation support project.

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• Creators:
  Lee, Amy ; Fang, Kevin ; Handy, Susan
• Corporate Creators:
  University of California, Davis. Institute of Transportation Studies
• Corporate Contributors:
  National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Air Quality Management Emissions Reduction Exhaust Gases Greenhouse Gases Sketch Planning Travel Demand Management VMT Vehicle Miles Of Travel
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  California;United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) (UTC)
• Abstract:
  The State of California has enacted ambitious policies that aim to reduce the state’s greenhouse
  
  gas (GHG) emissions. Some of these policies focus on reducing the amount of driving
  
  throughout the state, measured in vehicle miles traveled (VMT), given that transportation,
  
  primarily automobile use, is the largest single source of California’s GHG emissions.1 To
  
  encourage local plans and projects that reduce VMT, California has established several grant
  
  programs to which local jurisdictions may apply.
  
  These grant programs have generated a need for methods to estimate the potential VMT – and
  
  thus GHG – impacts of proposed planning efforts, land development projects, and
  
  transportation projects. A range of VMT estimation methods are available for use by funding
  
  applicants. Regional travel demand models, for example, are used to estimate the VMT and
  
  GHG implications of alternative scenarios in the development of federally-required regional
  
  transportation plans and state-required sustainable communities strategies. These models are
  
  resource intensive, however, requiring modeling expertise and sometimes many days to
  
  complete a single analysis. To fill the need for less resource-intensive methods more
  
  appropriate for localized plans and individual projects, upwards of a dozen “sketch” tools have
  
  been developed.
  
  These sketch tools vary in their approach and appropriateness for the breadth of development
  
  projects and project locations in the state. Practitioners are often unsure as to which method
  
  to use for a particular project and have little information to guide their choice. In this report we
  
  compare and evaluate VMT estimation tools across a sample of land use projects. We compare
  
  the results from different tools for each project, consider the applicability of methods in
  
  particular contexts and for different types of projects, and assess data needs, relative ease of
  
  use, and other practical considerations.
  
  
• Format:
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• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
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