Of the 10 largest Texas MPOs Farm&City investigated, the Alamo Area MPO (AAMPO), which covers the San Antonio region, seems to be most seriously pursuing Vision Zero – a deliberate approach to end traffic deaths. Along with every other Texas MPO, AAMPO adopted the TxDOT safety targets that assume a continuous increase in the total number of fatalities on Texas …
At their last monthly meeting on February 12th, the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) Transportation Policy Board (TPB) agenda included adoption of Safety Performance Measure Targets. Farm&City has been working for the last six months with a coalition of nonprofits and citizen activists across the Austin region to provide analysis and best practices to the members of the TPB on …
Vehicle Miles Traveled, VMT, is a crucial measure of how much we travel, individual, by neighborhood, or across a metropolitan region, or nation. Household VMT is a huge input in our personal carbon footprint and transportation costs. Total VMT in a region is directly related to the rate of traffic fatalities. Traditionally, VMT has been regarded as an unavoidable consequence of regional …