Priority Area: Clean and Active Transportation
Barrier: Vehicle Miles Traveled

Challenge/Local/State

Description

Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Policy/Planning/Land Use )

Require VMT-reducing mitigation for highway expansions. Local and regional partners can push for policies requiring that highway capacity increases be offset with investments in transit, active transportation, or affordable housing to balance induced demand. Participants described this offset structure as analogous to a mitigation or “cap-and-trade” style model for transportation.

Region: San Francisco Bay Area

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