Description
On September 27, 2013, California’s governor signed Senate Bill (SB) 743 into law, in part mandating the transition from a level-of-service-based (LOS) measure of transportation environmental impacts to a vehicle-miles-traveled-based (VMT) one in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Several California jurisdictions, including San Jose, Pasadena, and San Francisco, have moved quickly to comply with SB 743, so it is no surprise that several of these early-adopter cities have been working hard to develop powerful VMT estimation methods and tools using the most recent research available.
This perspective uses the experiences of an early-adopter city, San Jose, to identify and illustrate the challenges faced by California planners trying to meet the legal requirements of SB 743 and the practical needs of their communities in developing the VMT calculation methods.
Publication Date
1-2019
Publication Type
Report
Topic
Planning and Policy, Sustainable Transportation and Land Use
MTI Project
1825
Mineta Transportation Institute URL
https://transweb.sjsu.edu/research/1825-Measuring-SB743-Progress-VMT
Keywords
Vehicle miles of travel, Traffic measurement, Regulation, Policy, legislation and regulation
Disciplines
Environmental Policy | Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation | Public Policy | Transportation
Recommended Citation
Christopher E. Ferrell. "Measuring Incremental SB743 Progress: Accounting for Project Contributions Towards Reducing VMT Under California's Senate Bill 743" Mineta Transportation Institute (2019).
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Environmental Policy Commons, Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Commons, Public Policy Commons, Transportation Commons
