Bill Text: CA AB823 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 823

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Bill Title: Clean Transportation Program: eligible projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB823 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 823

Introduced by Assembly Member Schiavo

February 13, 2023

An act to amend Section 14522.1 of the Government Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 823, as introduced, Schiavo. Transportation planning: travel demand models.

Existing law requires the California Transportation Commission, in consultation with the Department of Transportation and the State Air Resources Board, to maintain guidelines for travel demand models used in the development of regional transportation plans by federally designated metropolitan transportation organizations.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 14522.1 of the Government Code is amended to read:

14522.1.

(a) (1) The ~~commission,~~ California Transportation Commission, in consultation with the ~~department~~ Department of Transportation and the State Air Resources Board, shall maintain guidelines for travel demand models used in the development of regional transportation plans by federally designated metropolitan planning organizations.

(2) Any revision of the guidelines shall include the formation of an advisory committee that shall include representatives of the metropolitan planning organizations, the department, organizations knowledgeable in the creation and use of travel demand models, local governments, and organizations concerned with the impacts of transportation investments on communities and the environment. Before amending the guidelines, the commission shall hold two workshops on the guidelines, one in northern California and one in southern California. The workshops shall be incorporated into regular commission meetings.

(b) The guidelines shall, at a minimum and to the extent practicable, taking into account such factors as the size and available resources of the metropolitan planning organization, account for all of the following:

(1) The relationship between land use density and household vehicle ownership and vehicle miles traveled in a way that is consistent with statistical research.

(2) The impact of enhanced transit service levels on household vehicle ownership and vehicle miles traveled.

(3) Changes in travel and land development likely to result from highway or passenger rail expansion.

(4) Mode splitting that allocates trips between automobile, transit, carpool, and bicycle and pedestrian trips. If a travel demand model is unable to forecast bicycle and pedestrian trips, another means may be used to estimate those trips.

(5) Speed and frequency, days, and hours of operation of transit service.