Reducing Need to Travel and Vehicle Miles Traveled

Focus Areas: Demand management, mode shifts, transportation planning, land use planning

Recent Developments:

California Bill Encourages Greater Land Use Density  
California S.B. 375 has been passed by both houses and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger.  The bill aligns three planning processes - transportation, environment and housing - and provides incentives, such as waiving air analysis studies, if development proposes increased density.  The initial target is for reduction of 2 million tons of CO2 equivalents through land use changes by 2020, in support of A.B. 32 which mandates a reduction of 169 million tons by 2020.
Text of Bill.
Analysis of Bill.