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Discuss Transportation Performance Metrics Overview and Work Scope (Discussion)
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Summary
The City is beginning a comprehensive review of its existing transportation performance measures, metrics and targets; and identifying the need for additional metrics and targets, in order to track the effectiveness of transportation investments over time and to set targets to work towards. These metrics and targets will align with the four goals in the City's General Plan Mobility Element. The City will hire a transportation consultant to support this effort. The attached Exhibit 1 presents an overview of this effort, discussion questions for the Transportation Commission, and the proposed consultant tasks.
Background
The City's General Plan, adopted in 2021, includes the performance action: "Systemwide Monitoring. Provide comprehensive citywide monitoring of the transportation system for all modes to be included in the Annual Report on Transportation." [ME-19.c.] The City has been publishing a Transportation Report annually which includes a "Performance Measures" section, with reporting on over 20 different measures in the 2022 report (see Exhibit 2). (The full 2022 report can be found under "Key Documents" on the City's transportation web page, here: www.alamedaca.gov/transportation.) As stated in the Performance Measure section: "The City of Alameda aims to make data-driven decisions when setting transportation priorities, and uses this information as a type of performance metrics to help evaluate actions taken so as to better understand how to proceed in the future."
Three City planning documents contain transportation performance measures, metrics and/or targets: the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan, the Vision Zero Action Plan and the Active Transportation Plan. In 2022, the first annual Vision Zero Annual Report was published, with reporting on the Plan's performance measures (see Exhibit 3).
Discussion
Exhibit 1 provides an overview and context fo...
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