Metro - File #: 2022-0003

• File #: 2022-0003
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Filed
• File created: 1/3/2022
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 8/18/2022
• Final action: 8/18/2022
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE the Climate Emissions Assessment: Metro's Indirect Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report (Attachment A).
• Sponsors: Executive Management Committee
• Indexes: City of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, Informational Report, Long range planning, Long Range Transportation Plan, Metro Bike Share, Metro Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, Mitigation, Motion / Motion Response, Program, Rolling stock, Senate Bill 743, Southern California Association Of Governments, Strategic planning, Vehicle miles of travel, Zero Emissions

Date	Action By	Action	Result
8/18/2022	Executive Management Committee

Meeting_Body
REVISED
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
AUGUST 18, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: CLIMATE EMISSIONS ANALYSIS - METRO'S INDIRECT IMPACT ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the Climate Emissions Assessment: Metro's Indirect Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report (Attachment A).

Issue
ISSUE

As transportation planner and coordinator, designer, builder and operator for the country's largest, most populous county, Metro has an important role to play in the fight against climate change and in meeting our global, state and local targets. Our current commitments and contributions to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are detailed in several strategic documents, including the agency's Climate Action & Adaptation Plan (CAAP), Moving Beyond Sustainability (MBS), and the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP).

In September 2021, to build on these strategic plans, Director Garcetti requested additional details on the projected Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and GHG emission impacts resulting from Metro's planned programs and policies.

As a first step in responding to this Board direction, Metro undertook an analysis to evaluate the individual VMT and GHG impacts of Metro's planned capital expansion projects, service improvements, pricing policies, and strategic programs, most of which are included in the LRTP and were similarly analyzed on a program level in support of that document. Recognizing the limitations of a disaggregated analysis approach, the VMT and GHG emission impact calculations that are presented for each program and initiative were prepared conservatively and the analysis does not account for the synergistic benefits or dampening effects of the holistic program laid out and analyzed in the LRTP.

Additionally, this analysis acknowledges the uncertainty associated with any transportation modeling exercise that involves forecasting future trends, present in this dis...