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Title:

Synergistic Effects of Transit, Land Use, and Vehicle Pricing Policies on Vehicle Travel and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Cover of Synergistic Effects of Transit, Land Use, and Vehicle Pricing Policies on Vehicle Travel and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Accession Number:

01518746

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This study applies California’s Activity Based Model (ABM) to simulate the travel effects of travel demand management (TDM) policies, both individually and in all possible combinations, for the state and its five major regions (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Joaquin Valley, and Sacramento). The results indicate that distance-based auto pricing yields significant reductions in passenger and light duty vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) and the most aggressive combinations of TDMs, including transit expansion and land use measures reduce VKT by about 20%. Elasticities are calculated for individual policy scenarios and found to be consistent with elasticities reported in the literature. Differences introduced by the failure to represent the interaction of two or more TDMs are evaluated. The model is able to represent both positive and negative VKT reduction synergies, but overestimation is the more common result. Differences are typically less than 10%, but in some instances they are over 20%. Operational ABMs are now available that are sensitive to TDMs. Future research examining deep greenhouse gas reduction scenarios should take advantage of these models to evaluate the potential of combination of TDMs.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADA10(2) Statewide Travel Demand Forecasting Alternate title: Synergistic Effects of Transit, Land Use, and Vehicle Pricing Policies on Vehicle Miles Traveled: Case Study with California Activity-Based Travel Demand Model.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-4304

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Rodier, Caroline
Haydu, Brandon
Linesch, Nicholas J
Alemi, Farzad

ORCID 0000-0003-4333-3393

Circella, Giovanni

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

California

Subject Areas:

Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-4304

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:29PM