File #: 2024-0216   
Type: Policy Status: Passed
File created: 3/25/2024 In control: Planning and Programming Committee
On agenda: 4/17/2024 Final action: 4/25/2024
Title: ADOPT Scenario 1 with accelerated non-capital components to 2030 as Metro's VMT Reduction Targets and use Scenario 3 results as a County-wide Call to Climate Action for 2045 (Attachment A). YAROSLAVSKY AND SOLIS AMENDMENT: A. Report back to the Planning and Programming Committee on identifying a detailed framework for a regional working group to pursue funding, policy, and projects that help us to accomplish the necessary collaboration in order to achieve Scenario 3; B. Provide a plan that identifies how to capture and track these VMT reductions in Metro's Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) and to provide a 5-year update of the CAAP to include VMT reduction targets and to include the County of Los Angeles; and C. Require that board reports include a new standard section that analyzes the VMT impacts of that item beginning in December 2024.
Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
Indexes: Call For Projects, City of Los Angeles, Hilda Solis, Holly J. Mitchell, Katy Yaroslavsky, Long Range Transportation Plan, Metro Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, Mitigation, Motion / Motion Response, Partnerships, Plan, Policy, Program, Research, Safety, Southern California Association Of Governments, Strategic planning, Testing, Transit System, Transportation modes, Travel patterns, Vehicle miles of travel, Walking, Zero Emissions
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Scenario Framing, 2. Attachment B - Board Motion 45, 3. Attachment C - Technical Memorandum, 4. Presentation
Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
APRIL 17, 2024
Subject
SUBJECT: VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED (VMT) REDUCTION TARGET SETTING

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
ADOPT Scenario 1 with accelerated non-capital components to 2030 as Metro's VMT Reduction Targets and use Scenario 3 results as a County-wide Call to Climate Action for 2045 (Attachment A).

YAROSLAVSKY AND SOLIS AMENDMENT:

A. Report back to the Planning and Programming Committee on identifying a detailed framework for a regional working group to pursue funding, policy, and projects that help us to accomplish the necessary collaboration in order to achieve Scenario 3;

B. Provide a plan that identifies how to capture and track these VMT reductions in Metro's Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) and to provide a 5-year update of the CAAP to include VMT reduction targets and to include the County of Los Angeles; and

C. Require that board reports include a new standard section that analyzes the VMT impacts of that item beginning in December 2024.

Issue
ISSUE

This report summarizes analytical work conducted by Metro staff in response to Board Motion # 45 by Directors Garcetti, Solis, Kuehl, Bonin, and Mitchell (Attachment B). The directive requested that Metro staff explore options for VMT reduction through Metro's programs and services and recommended that the agency adopt specific VMT and Mode Share targets aligned with regional and statewide GHG reduction goals. This study is an internally directed research, modeling, and analysis effort that is different from the work being conducted by other Metro staff to develop a program to mitigate VMT related to Metro highways projects. Metro is one of the first transit agencies in the US to conduct this level of analysis for VMT target setting.
Background
BACKGROUND

Vehicle Miles Traveled is an important metric for evaluating the per capita use of private vehicles. VMT is often expressed as the a...

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