VMT

The California Environmental Quality Act added Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) as a way to measure transportation impacts, and sprawl supporters are unhappy about it.

The post Attempt to Undermine VMT Rules Becomes a Bill to Study Their Use Instead appeared first on Streetsblog California.

A new analysis from the Natural Resources Defense Council found that California allocates less than twenty percent of available transportation funding to low-carbon modes - despite climate and livability goals to increase walking, biking, and transit as modes of choice. At the same time, the state is still investing in highway expansion.

The post California Spends Too Little on Environmentally Friendly Transportation Options appeared first on Streetsblog California.

And then turns around and says: oh, but new freight truck traffic induced by new highway capacity doesn't count! Really, Caltrans?

The post Caltrans Explains Why VMT – Vehicle Miles Traveled – Is Such a Concern appeared first on Streetsblog California.

A new study explores what it really takes to cut VMT, and how communities can craft effective plans to transition out of car dependency.

The post Which Car-Cutting Strategies Really Work — And Which Ones Will We Accept? appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

Experiencing the majesty of nature shouldn't require a set of keys. Here's how parks around the world are making driving optional.

The post Making Hiking Accessible Without Cars appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

Right now, drivers pay for their roads through the pump, the tollbooth, and the roadside camera — and it never seems to be enough. Will advanced new technology help them pay their fair share, or increase the subsidy they receive from people who walk and roll?

The post Utah’s ‘Road Usage Charging’ Pilot Could Finally Price the Roads Properly appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

The capital of Denmark is constantly doing the math on the true price of car culture. Could America follow their lead?

The post How Copenhagen Measures the Costs of Driving — And Crafts Policy to Reduce Them appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

Building dense housing around transit stations, encouraging lower emission and electric cars, designing cities to encourage walking and biking--those are all great policies. But how does one measure whether the policies are actually lowering CO2 emissions from automobiles? That was the subject of a forum today at SPUR's San Francisco location.

Earlier this week, I attended a California Sustainable Transportation Funding Workshop, hosted by Caltrans, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the California Transportation Commission (CTC), and the Mileage-Based User Fee Alliance (MBUFA). The half-day program focused on how the state of California could shift from our current gas tax funding stream to one based on a per-mile fee.