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      <title>Shifting from LOS to VMT as the Measure of Transportation Impacts: 
Evaluating Prospects for Implementing Senate Bill 743 </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[California’s Senate Bill (SB) 743, enacted in 2013, marks a historic policy shift in evaluation and mitigation of traffic impacts of development projects. To help achieve state climate policy and sustainability goals, SB 743 eliminates traffic delay as an environmental impact under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requiring instead assessment of vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Recently proposed state implementation guidelines have sparked debate, raising far-reaching questions about development planning. Using a case study approach, our research will consist of two parts. The first will evaluate tools-in-use for estimating VMT impacts of development projects, considering outputs in connection to the best available research on the subject, and also against the proposed state rules for determining significant effects that require mitigation. The project will evaluate how well the tools and proposed guidelines distinguish high- and low-performing projects, and how well they serve to streamline project-level analysis from plan-level analysis – a goal of SB 743. The second component will consist of interviews with local CEQA practitioners and assessment of pertinent documents on CEQA review, to identify challenges for implementing SB 743 at the local level. The research will identify effective VMT assessment techniques that state policymakers may want to recommend to local agencies.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:28:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SB-743: From LOS to VMT, VHT and Beyond Through Data Fusion: Application to Integrated Corridor Management</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The objective of this research is to provide analysis tools to infer essential metrics in support of SB-743 from infrastructure data, fused with global positioning system (GPS) and cell tower data. California's State Senate Bill 743 (SB-743) suggests a process to change the analysis of transportation impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The main result from the proposed work will be an assessment of the usability of novel data types to support the objectives of SB-743, in particular the computation of vehicle miles of travel (VMT) and vehicle hours of travel (VHT) on the arterial network to enable corridor management. In addition, the work will propose a theoretical and algorithmic methodology to make use of whatever data is available on the corridors to provide "the best" computations of these metrics "based on available data." The project will produce open source code directly available to the research community and public agencies]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:56:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Developing Self-cleaning and Air Purifying Transportation Infrastructure Components to Minimize Environmental Impact of Transportation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Developing transportation infrastructure without compromising environmental quality is of paramount importance. This can also lead to improvement in the US economic competitiveness, which is intimately linked to modern transportation systems. However, developing such system in a sustainable way is not trivial. The proposed paper will explore a topic of self-cleaning and air purifying structural components, which can save energy via reducing of surface contamination (e.g. soiling), improve environment via decomposition of pollutants emitted from the vehicles and protect human health by decreasing the ozone levels in urban environment. We will look into concrete, glass and asphalt coated with inexpensive photocatalytic films, which are currently being developed in collaboration with a small New York (NY) based company. This paper will assess the long term performance and air purifying potential of these films, which will be done in collaboration with the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Brookhaven National Lab. Moreover, this project will have an enormous impact on a career development of the principal investigator (PI), who is the first ever Provostial appointment in Materials and Environment area here at Stony Brook. Ultimately, the above-mentioned approach can have a significant relevance to the U.S.Department of Transportation (DOT) goals, such as development of livable communities by providing an access to environmentally sustainable travel options. It can also have a potentially transformative impact in terms of another DOT goal focused on environmental sustainability, where self-cleaning properties of the coatings can improve both energy and water conservation. This paper also aims at contributing to Focus area 5 (Promoting livable and sustainable communities through quality of life improvements and diverse transportation development) and Focus Area 7 (Promoting freight productivity, efficiency, and sustainability through multi-modal policy, planning and logistics). The proposed work project will involve both literature and experimental components as we already accumulated some background data to make a significant progress in this area. For example, we currently have all experimental setups necessary for measurements of self-cleaning properties of coated concrete and asphalt. Moreover, this will be complemented by experimental apparatus for determining atmospheric pollutants removal, which has been already tested in our lab.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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