Develop a consistent, scalable approach for local transportation emissions accounting by leveraging existing regional and state data sources.
Challenge/Local/State
Priority Area: Climate Action
Description
Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Policy/Planning/Land Use )
Existing Examples of Progress: "Metropolitan Planning Organization regional travel demand models" (gold standard, origin/destination, but not always available), other proxies: EMFAC in regions, use population to parse down to cities. Chris Jones at UC Berkeley uses fleet data allocated to tract level, rolled up to cities, can be done consistently Statewide. Highway Performance Monitoring System data through Caltrans, a consistently provided measurements in a systemic way each year, but it's a small snippet of what’s available in the VMT models
Region: Statewide
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