Moving Toward a Sustainable California: Exploring Livability, Accessibility & Prosperity

For California DOT and the UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), Glen Weisbrod of EDR Group was an invited speaker at a 2016 workshop of national experts to discuss options for transportation performance metrics that spanned the three areas of Livability, Accessibility & Prosperity. Mr. Weisbrod presented options for prosperity performance measures and discussed their interaction and correlation with livability and accessibility measures. He also co-lead discussions with Caltrans staff on these interactions:

Workshop Summary: Moving Toward a Sustainable California

Weisbrod presentation: Economic Prosperity Impact Metrics for Transportation Project Scoring

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