We are pleased to announce the next Series topic:
"The Science Behind Sustainable Communities Strategies".
Susan Handy, Ph.D.
National Center for Sustainable Transportation
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California, Davis
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 1:30 pm, PDT (WEBCAST)
Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California
California's landmark Sustainable Communities and Climate
Protection Law (Senate Bill 375) ushered in a new era of regional
planning. Passed in 2008, SB 375 aims to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions through better coordination and alignment of regional
transportation planning with local land use planning. Each of the
state's eighteen Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) was
charged with creating a "Sustainable Communities Strategy" (SCS)
as part of their Regional Transportation Plan. The SCS contains
land use, housing, and transportation strategies that, if
implemented, would allow the region to achieve state defined
targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions from passenger
vehicle use.
Rich conversations on best ways to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions while addressing other important social, environmental,
and economic priorities have been sparked in regions across
California as part of the first round of SCSs. But what does the
science say about the proposed strategies?
This seminar will provide an objective review of the empirical
evidence on how effective various transportation and land use
strategies are at reducing vehicle miles traveled (and thus
greenhouse gas emissions). In a multi-year project funded by the
Air Resources Board, a team of UC Davis, UC Irvine, and
University of Southern California researchers examined a total of
23 strategies ranging from car-sharing services to access to bus
and rail stations to changes in land use. The goal of the project
was to strengthen the technical underpinnings of SB375 and to
gain a clearer understanding of data gaps and research needs
moving forward. This seminar will outline some of the most
promising strategies to help inform development of and potential
improvements to the models, tools, and information used by
Metropolitan Planning Organizations, local governments, and
others for SB 375 implementation. The scientific evidence for
each strategy studied by the researchers is summarized in a
series of policy briefs that are now available for download at
ARB's website: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/sb375.htm
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