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.

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.

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.

Output_Parcels

The name for the feature layer represting the output parcels.

Selected_Project_Area

Summary layer representing the seleted project area

Low_VMT_Generating_TAZs

Layer representing the low VMT generating TAZ determined from the input threshold and VMT metric.

Code Samples

Tags

VMT; Screening;

Credits

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