Sustainable transportation planning strives to maximize transportation system efficiency. This involves changing from mobility-based to accessibility-based planning, which strives to minimize the amount of travel needed to access services and activities. To help guide this shift, some jurisdictions have established vehicle travel reduction targets and are replacing level-of-service (LOS) with vehicle miles of travel (VMT) performance indicators. This article describes why and how to make this shift. It summarizes the ITE report, Vehicle-Miles Traveled (VMT) as a Metric for Sustainability.
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