Moving Toward a Sustainable California: Exploring Livability, Accessibility & Prosperity
Increasingly, transportation planners and managers, at all levels of government, are recognizing the profound impact that transportation systems, availability, and access have on quality of life, economic well-being, and social equity. For many Departments of Transportation (DOTs), shifting their planning, evaluation, and procurement criteria to better reflect social and economic goals is a significant departure from decades of planning and management for vehicle throughput, with indicators such as level of service (LOS) and congestion. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has embraced this broader understanding of transportation in their 2015-2020 Strategic Management Plan. Goal 3 of the Plan, “Sustainability, Livability and Economy”, tasks Caltrans to better align State decisions with sustainability goals and objectives. Specifically, Caltrans is to develop separate prosperity, accessibility, and livability scores that will be integrated into the decision-making process for priorities and project development. The Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley conducted a series of tasks to assist Caltrans with an understanding of prosperity, accessibility, and livability metrics. Research findings were collected through a combination of literature reviews and expert interviews. Researchers found that prosperity, accessibility, and livability metrics all involve a component of cooperation with partner jurisdictions. A flexible approach that accounts for local and corridor considerations and evolves over time is emphasized. The white paper highlights the importance of equity considerations, data availability, and the scale of measurement. Prosperity emphasizes long-term or short-term strategies to improve quality of life, focusing on economic indicators, such as income, business, and property values. Prosperity metrics can be used to prioritize transportation projects based on social, environmental, or equity concerns. Accessibility metrics reflect the ability for transportation systems to provide people with access to opportunities. Metrics are centered on travel time and length, land use, mobility, and the availability of public transit. Livability focuses on quality of life improvements with community outcomes and impacts at the local level. Metrics—such as affordability, public health, quality of accessibility, environment, aesthetics, and public participation—all pertain to livability.
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Corporate Authors:
Transportation Sustainability Research Center
,California Department of Transportation
Division of Research, Innovation and System Information
1727 30th Street, MS 83
Sacramento, CA United States 95816 -
Authors:
- Shaheen, Susan
- Finson, Rachel
- Bhattacharyya, Abhinav
- Jaffee, Mark
- Publication Date: 2016-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: White Paper & Workshop Synopsis
- Features: Appendices; Glossary; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 65p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accessibility; Economic and social factors; Equity; Livability; Metrics (Quantitative assessment); Public health; Regional planning; Sustainable development; Sustainable transportation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Prosperity
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01663822
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
- Report/Paper Numbers: CA17-2999, 2016-TO 038-65A0529
- Contract Numbers: 65A0529 TO 038
- Files: CALTRANS, BTRIS, TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Mar 22 2018 12:01PM