VMT Screening Tool

Titleā€ƒ VMT Screening Tool

Summary

VMT Screening


Usage

VMT screening tool used to evaluate if a specified location is wtihin a low VMT generating area.


Syntax

Parameter Explanation
Parcels

The selected tax parcels that represent the proposed project site.

Jurisdiction

Which jursidictions VMT metrics should be used as the baseline measure in the screening analysis?

TAZ_Layer

The input feature class that represents the Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZs) that contain the VMT estimates.

Lookup_Table

A lookup table that links a tax parcel to its corresponding TAZ.

Configuration_Table

The configuration table for use in the VMT screening tool. This table provides a link between the VMT metric and baseline options to the corrosponding fields in the TAZ feature class.

VMT_Metric

The metrics that will be used in the VMT screening process (e.g., Total VMT per Service Population or Home-based Work VMT per Worker.

Baseline_Year

The year that should be used in the VMT screening analysis. The VMT metrics will be estimated for this year by interpolating between the model's base and future years.

Model_Baseline_Year

The base year of the model

Model_Future_Year

The future year of the model

Threshold____reduction_from_baseline_year_

The benchmark and percent reduction threshold value used in the VMT analysis, for example "Citywide Benchmark (-14.3%)" would be used to evaluate a project using -14.3% reduction from the citywide baseline value.

TPA_Boundaries

The feature class that represents the Transit Priority Area (TPA) boundaries.

Output_Parcels

Selected_Project_Area

Low_VMT_Generating_TAZs

Code Samples

Tags

VMT; Screening;

Credits

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