VMT Metrics Application & Analysis for SB 743 Compliance

Dates: November 2, 2017

Meets: Th from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: Holiday Inn Express and Suites

Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.

Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.

Credits

This course grants 08 CEUs and 8 AICP CM credits. (AICP CMs pending approval)

Description

OPR has selected vehicle-miles-of-travel (VMT) as the preferred metric to comply with Senate Bill 743 (SB 743). The recommended changes to the CEQA Guidelines include a Technical Advisory that provides recommendations about VMT screening, methodology, and thresholds. These recommendations require fundamental changes in current transportation impact analysis practices and have implications for transportation planning as part of general plans and regional transportation plans. This course will explain the technical details of how to address these changes and include detailed step-by-step flow-chart explanations of how to analyze land use projects, transportation projects, land use plans (e.g., general plans), and regional transportation plans under SB 743.

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Topics Include

  • Role of VMT in environmental impact analysis versus transportation planning
  • VMT estimation and forecasting methods
    • Data and models
    • Project versus cumulative analysis
    • Differences in methods for energy, air quality, GHG, and transportation impacts
    • Induced Travel
  • Role of the ARB's Mobile Source Strategy in establishing substantial evidence for significance thresholds
  • Role of RTPs and general plans in setting significance thresholds
  • Mitigation sources, strategies, and limitations

What You Will Learn

Students will obtain a rich set of information to help them navigate SB 743 compliance.
  • How to estimate and forecast VMT using a variety of methods and what limitations apply.
  • How to relate VMT reduction goals across technical topic areas including energy, air quality, greenhouse gases, and transportation.
  • What forms of VMT are most useful in measuring transportation impacts.
  • What decisions are required to select appropriate thresholds and what constitutes substantial evidence to support these decisions.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for planners, engineers, policy analysts, and CEQA practitioners, among others, in private or public practice who want to understand the technical details associated with SB 743 implementation and the fundamental changes in current transportation impact analysis practices.
Hours:8.00
CEUs:0.80

Holiday Inn Express and Suites

Room Rio Vista
66 Airport Access Road
Oakland, CA 94603

Ronald Milam

AICP, PTP, Director of Evolving the Status Quo, Fehr & Peers

Mr. Ronald T. Milam is a certified planner (AICP) and professional transportation planner (PTP) with more than 25 years of experience in all modes of surface transportation. His project assignments routinely involve CEQA legal defensibility while his research time is spent on big data applications, VMT analysis, multi-modal metrics, and land use/transportation interactions. His work on VMT analysis includes contributions to the FHWA Handbook for Estimating Transportation Greenhouse Gases for Integration into the Planning Process and the CAPCOA Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Measures plus direct consulting to OPR, Caltrans, MPOs, and local agencies on SB 743 implementation.

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