Evaluating the Impact of Local Actions on Vehicle Miles Traveled: Case Study in Davis, CA

The proposed project will bring the methods of program evaluation to the field of transportation policy, evaluating the effect on vehicle miles traveled of three local changes to the land use-transportation system in Davis, California. The three changes are the opening of the first big box store in Davis, the opening of an innovative mixed-use development, and a vehicle lane reduction/bicycle lane addition project on a major arterial road adjacent to downtown. The research design proposed for all three evaluations is a before/after data collection approach with treatment and control groups where feasible. This proposal covers the second year of a four-year project. The project will make two important contributions: it will be a test bed and model for before/after program evaluation in transport planning, and the results will provide much-needed evidence of the relative vehicle miles of travel (VMT) reduction potential of different local actions.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $55266.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT06-G-0022

  R05-5

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843
• Performing Organizations:

  Sustainable Transportation Center/ITS-Davis

  ITS-Davis
  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Principal Investigators:

  Salon, Deborah

• Start Date: 20101001
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20120930
• Source Data: RiP Project 28181

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Before and after studies; Bicycle lanes; Bicycle travel; Case studies; Data collection; Land use planning; Local transportation; Mixed use development; Policy making; Vehicle miles of travel
• Geographic Terms: Davis (California)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01468023
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University of California Transportation Center/Institute of Transportation Studies
• Contract Numbers: DTRT06-G-0022, R05-5
• Files: UTC, RIP, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:43PM