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 project uses a transportation demand model to examine the magnitude of potential biases to represent induced travel from expanded highway capacity.
This report uses the state-of-the-practice transportation demand model, the Sacramento Council of Governments SACSIM19 model, to examine (1) the model's representation of induced travel, (2) the influence of variation in key inputs on vehicle travel and roadway congestions, and (3) the effect of changes in induced travel-related input variables on the comparisons of scenarios with and without highway expansions.
This report examines the potential market demand for a “first” mile transit access service and possible reductions in vehicle miles traveled at both the regional and station level.
UC Davis researchers surveyed homeowners in Sacramento and collected lot size and other data to investigate whether the total effective parking supply of the average single-family detached home is sufficient to accommodate the vehicles associated with the residents of both a primary dwelling and a potential ADU.
This policy brief focuses on the changes in warehousing and distribution facility and employment location and uses measures of relative location to infer potential truck vehicle miles traveled impacts.
This project examines changes in the spatial pattern of warehousing and distribution (W&D) activities and how these changes may impact truck vehicle miles traveled.
This policy brief summarizes interviews with stakeholders from 38 agencies and organizations throughout California on how they view the possible impacts of ridehailing and the policies that might best address those impacts.
Researchers used a historical counterfactual approach to assess how replacing level of service with vehicle miles traveled could have affected the approval process for 153 land development projects over 16 years in the city of Los Angeles.
This project analyzes the switch from level-of-service (LOS) to vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as a measure of significant environmental impacts. The researchers study how both LOS and VMT relate to development, housing, land use, and emissions.
