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arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: The Science Behind Sustainable Communities Strategies
Posted: 05 Sep 2014 11:29:05
We are pleased to announce the next Series topic: “The Science Behind Sustainable Communities Strategies”. Susan Handy, Ph.D. National Center for Sustainable Transportation Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California, Davis Tuesday, October 7, 2014 1:30 pm, PDT (WEBCAST) Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California California's landmark Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Law (Senate Bill 375) ushered in a new era of regional planning. Passed in 2008, SB 375 aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through better coordination and alignment of regional transportation planning with local land use planning. Each of the state's eighteen Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) was charged with creating a "Sustainable Communities Strategy" (SCS) as part of their Regional Transportation Plan. The SCS contains land use, housing, and transportation strategies that, if implemented, would allow the region to achieve state defined targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions from passenger vehicle use. Rich conversations on best ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while addressing other important social, environmental, and economic priorities have been sparked in regions across California as part of the first round of SCSs. But what does the science say about the proposed strategies? This seminar will provide an objective review of the empirical evidence on how effective various transportation and land use strategies are at reducing vehicle miles traveled (and thus greenhouse gas emissions). In a multi-year project funded by the Air Resources Board, a team of UC Davis, UC Irvine, and University of Southern California researchers examined a total of 23 strategies ranging from car-sharing services to access to bus and rail stations to changes in land use. The goal of the project was to strengthen the technical underpinnings of SB375 and to gain a clearer understanding of data gaps and research needs moving forward. This seminar will outline some of the most promising strategies to help inform development of and potential improvements to the models, tools, and information used by Metropolitan Planning Organizations, local governments, and others for SB 375 implementation. The scientific evidence for each strategy studied by the researchers is summarized in a series of policy briefs that are now available for download at ARB’s website: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/sb375.htm For more go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/handy/handy.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm For “external” users please check the external webcast calendar at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 For “internal” users please check the internal webcast calendar at: http://epanet.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Your e-mail questions will be aired during the Q&A period following the presentations. Please send your-e-mail your Q&A participation to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Jennifer Gray at (916) 327-0027 or Jennifer.Gray@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: cc, ceqa, localaction, research, sb375, seminars.