Regional Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Trails Master Plan - sacog

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Performance Measures
Measuring the improvements and expansion
of the bicycle and pedestrian system in the
Sacramento region is important to the long-term
success of this plan.
There are a variety of metrics that can be used, including:
• Change in miles of bikeways and sidewalks
• Change in usage
• Impact of bicycle and pedestrian investments on air quality, public health, and other quality
of life indicators
The region is home to over 480 miles of multi-use paths, 1,100 miles of bike lanes,
and 300 miles of bike routes. The Master Plan proposes to greatly increase the
number of facilities in the region, including about 750 miles of multi-use paths,
1,500 miles of bike lanes, and 500 miles of bike routes.
Monitoring and Review
The collection of data can help evaluate what treatments are successful and what can be improved
in an active transportation network. Data can also help justify pursuing needed improvements,
and help projects secure competitive funding when funds are scarce. Funds can be allocated to
measure the effectiveness of improvements made to the regional bicycle and pedestrian systems
after projects have been completed, and may be included as part of the total project funding.
The process used for these measurements is specific to each project and will be managed by the
local jurisdictions.
SAcog Collaboration with
University of California, Davis
In late 2010, SACOG received a Sustainable
Communities Regional Planning Grant to
help develop and implement the MTP/SCS.
The UC Davis Center for Regional Change is
a partner on this grant, working with SACOG
to develop two neighborhood indices: a
vulnerability index and an opportunity index.
These indices can be used to compare
the social equity characteristics of specific
neighborhoods to the region as a whole. A
central goal of both indices was to design
them in ways that could incorporate the
complex and multi-faceted nature of
social vulnerability and opportunity in
the region, while also providing decision
makers with an intuitive and quick way to
identify neighborhoods with high levels of
social vulnerabilities, and neighborhoods
that showed characteristics of high social
and economic opportunity. It was also
important that the indices be developed in
a broad participatory process to incorporate
the wealth of knowledge of social equity
advocates in the region, and to ensure that
the final product had broad public support.
The resulting vulnerability index and
opportunity index, and the specific
indicators that comprised these indices,
became important tools in the case study
area selection process to investigate the
implementation of the MTP/SCS, and are
now forming the basis for on-going efforts to
incorporate social equity into neighborhood
strategic planning, in updates to the MTP/
SCS, and in developing a framework for
tracking performance in attaining social
equity goals in the long term.