mitigation

In this report, travel behavior data from the Federal Highway Administration’s National Household Travel Survey is combined with detailed built environment data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Smart Location Database to evaluate the relationships between personal and built environment factors and sustainable travel behaviors including vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and mode choice.

This dataset is from research that applies a life cycle perspective to assess the energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, air quality impacts, and costs of on-road freight vehicle technologies and operational strategies identified under the Sustainable Freight Action Plan.

The dataset centers around the level of service (LOS) to Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) shift which made the latter the transportation impact metric for land development projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Appropriately, this dataset summarizes the inventory findings of the study which investigated how local governments have been implementing the LOS-to-VMT shift for land development projects.

This project focuses on the LOS to VMT shift as a transportation impact metric for land development projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The authors expand on the differences this shift has posed upon land development projects, and explore the government's involvement in measuring the actual VMT levels.

This policy brief summarizes findings from the University of Vermont project where researchers sought to answer the question: is the relationship between travel and the built environment the same in urban and rural areas.