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Key Messages / RecommendationsKey Messages / Recommendations

• Growth: Inevitable, but adverse effects are not.

• Automobile: safety/mobility, impacts.

• Road Capacity: Need more -- and this doesn’t just mean pouring concrete.

• Public Transit: Essential, must be improved.

• Mobility: Automobile and transit both essential.

• Technology: Will continue to improve mobility, reduce the costs/impacts of travel.

• Leadership: Need consensus / “champions”.

• Money: Do more with current $, provide more.

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Five Key AreasFive Key Areas

1.Maintain, improve, and expand the highway and road system.

2. Improve automobile-based mobility.

3.Provide attractive and viable options to the automobile.

4. Improve California’s transportation planning and decision-making processes.

5.Establish and maintain adequate and reliable funding for transportation.

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• Increase Real and Effective Road Capacity - new capacity, more effective use, limit increase in demand• Increase Safety and Maintenance Efforts - more R&D, alleviate disruption, distribute impacts• Manage Roads Better - TMC’s, condition detection, improve enforcement and incident management, security

The RoadsThe Roads

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The AutomobileThe Automobile

• Dominates mobility - meets most needs better than other modes

• Continue to reduce energy use and emissions

• Can be made safer, smarter, and more reliable

• Role in current and future growth and development must be better defined

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Alternatives to the AutomobileAlternatives to the Automobile

• Public Transit

• Shared-Use Vehicles

• Non-motorized

• Special Mobility Needs

• Alternatives to Making Trips

• Public Transit

• Shared-Use Vehicles

• Non-motorized

• Special Mobility Needs

• Alternatives to Making Trips

Alternatives to the AutomobileAlternatives to the Automobile

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The ProcessThe Process

Revise the state’s planning process to improve -

• Regular “needs” assessments• Performance measurements and

benchmarks• Cost reduction efforts• Environmental streamlining• Coordination across jurisdictions • Public education and involvement

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(Funding title shot)

FundingFunding

• Provide more resources for transportation

• Assure that those resources are provided and used . . .

efficientlyeffectivelyequitably

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Recommended FundingRecommended Funding

• Maintain the motor

vehicle fuel tax as

the cornerstone of

transportation funding

• Allocate more federal funds

to California

• Reduce 2/3 vote requirement

for local transportation sales taxes

• Wider use of bonds

• Transfer general funds

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Funding to EvaluateFunding to Evaluate

• Evaluate the adequacy of fuel tax levels• Evaluate whether alternative fuel vehicles are

paying a fair share• Re-evaluate appropriateness,

structure of tolls• Evaluate weight,

distance, and

configuration based

truck taxation system

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Funding to Evaluate (cont’d)Funding to Evaluate (cont’d)

• Conduct research and

demonstration projects

on direct road-use pricing• Fixed fee in lieu of

Vehicle License Fee• Expanded beneficiary payments

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