mitigation

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.

Senate Bill (SB) 743 (2013) and its related regulations eliminated automobile level of service (LOS) and replaced it with vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as the primary transportation impact metric for land development projects. The LOS-to-VMT shift was expected to create many challenges for transportation analysts. With those concerns in mind, researchers at the University of California, Davis investigated how local governments have been implementing the LOS-to-VMT shift.