Draft MTP/SCS Comments Received - sacog

Appendix: Metrics recommended for future study
Metric
Population exposed to ambient
noise >55dB (WHO community
standard)
Basic pedestrian and bicycle
infrastructure
Participation in RTP planning
process throughout all stages.
Pollutants generated by travel
(CO, NOx, PM2.5, PM10, Sox,
VOC, ozone, diesel emissions)
Reason for exclusion and research
recommendation
Methodology exists to model noise exposure on a local level,
however, it is resource intensiveness led to its exclusion, .
MPOs should work with health experts and others to
develop an efficient way to do this, as well as consider
regional level noise
If MPOs don’t measure this, they cannot plan for it. For this
reason, we suggest that MPOs research best and most
efficient practices for assessing pedestrian and bicycle
infrastructure quality. It was excluded in the final version
due to current resource constraints and lack of an agreedupon
methodology, however models exist, such as the
Pedestrian Environmental Quality Index and the Bicycle
Environmental Quality Index from SFDPH.
Have full participation in RTP planning processes. Potential
ways of measuring this could include public documentation
of notes from meetings including attendance (number and
what groups/individuals attend); advocates’ scoresheets on
participation in planning. This was excluded as partners
recognized that this was not a “metric” but rather something
that would be requested and monitored, but not written into
RTP/SCS.
Collecting pollutants is important. We recognize that 1. This
information can be extrapolated from VMT per household
and 2. MPOs do not collect this data sub-regionally. Thus it
was excluded recognizing the methodological limitations
currently. However, we recommend that MPOs partner
with academics and other groups to investigate measuring
methodologies that exist but might be time-consuming at
this point, such as air quality modeling based on traffic
counts for sub-regional prediction of pollutants.
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