Modeling the region’s future
From SPUR:
10:29 PM PDT on September 25, 2011
From SPUR:
As the Bay Area debates and develops its first combined Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy, the modelers at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments are busy. They are analyzing how far our regional decisions about transportation investments, policies and land-use changes will get us towards goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and driving. Learn how the regional models work and why they are important for regional planning. With David Ory from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Michael Reillyfrom the Association of Bay Area Governments.
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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