Pasadena Ushers in Era of VMT Metrics
California – April 2015 – Perhaps fittingly, one of the state’s oldest, stateliest cities will be the first to institute one of the most sophisticated advances in planning tools since the slide rule. Not long ago, the City of Pasadena implemented metrics that measure projects’ impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act in terms of …
Replacing LOS: Experts Debate How CA Should Measure Transpo Impacts
Sacramento, CA – November 7, 2014 – California planning experts continue to debate how to most effectively measure transportation impacts in a way that will foster smarter growth, after the state abandoned the car-centric metric known as Level of Service (LOS). The acronym-laden process of measuring transportation under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) may …
How Three Little Letters can Make Such a Big Difference: LOS, Meet VMT
Washington, DC – September 3, 2014 – We have some great progress to report on one of the bills that made it through in the waning hours of last year’s legislative session—a bill that could fundamentally change the way we think about development and traffic in California. As I’ve written in the past, the crux …
Orange Line BRT plan earns Honorable Mention
The Southern California Association of Governments recognized the Orange Line BRT Sustainable Corridor Implementation Plan with a 2014 Honorable Mention, Sustainability Awards. The bus rapid transitway in LA, although a groundbreaking success, is hampered by mixed access. On a team led by Raimi + Associates, Nelson\Nygaard identified and prioritized improvements to station access and station-area …