Driving Change: Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in California
- Abstract
Three specific strategies are to be employed to help reduce smissions: Hgiher-density deveopment, investments in alternatives to solo driving, and pricing policies that raise the cost of driving and parking. This report reviews the opportunities and challenges of each of these strategies and assesses California’s recent experiences and future prospects for successfully integrating them.The first section reviews the role of transportation in California’s climate change policy, describing efforts to reduce GHG emissions through various transportation strategies. The second section explores land use, transit, and pricing policies aimed at reducing VMT. The third section discuses the integration of these strategies. We look at local readiness to use integrated strategies, drawing on our survey of California city and ocunty planners, and analyze California’s recent experiences with transit-oriented development
- Resource Type
- Report
- Authors
- Louise Bedsworth Ellen Hank Jed Kolko
- Resource URL
- http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=948
- Date
- 2011
- Short Title
- Driving Change
- Institution
- Public Policy Institute of California
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Emission Source
- Transportation
- Solutions
- Active transportation Market mechanisms
- Region
- Southwest
- Other
- US policy Policy United states