Vision California
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Project Summary
| Client: | California High Speed Rail Authority (Sacramento, California) |
| Type: | Regional Plan |
| Program: | California-wide scenario development and modeling | Spreadsheet-based and place-based modeling tool development | Full-scale modeling of greenhouse gas, energy, water, land consumption, and other collateral impacts |
| Status: | 2008 - ongoing |
| Links: | http://www.visioncalifornia.org |
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Vision California explores the role of land use and transportation investments in meeting the environmental, fiscal, and public health challenges facing California over the coming decades. Funded by the California High Speed Rail Authority in partnership with the California Strategic Growth Council, the project is producing new scenario development and analysis tools to compare physical growth alternatives. By clearly expressing the consequences of different scenarios, Vision California’s tools can inform the critical state and regional decisions that will drive the state’s growth.
Through the development and deployment of new scenario development and analysis tools, Rapid Fire and Urban Footprint, Vision California is using state-of-the-art scenario planning and analysis techniques to inform state- and regional-level planning and policy discussions. While the Rapid Fire model has already been used to generate timely estimates on a range of “co-benefits” to statewide GHG reductions, the Urban Footprint model will be used to produce fine-grained physical scenarios that can be seen, explored, and clearly understood. These alternative futures will be more than a collection of goals, policies, maps, and pictures – they will critically assess how varying land use and infrastructure investments can meet state goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as broader objectives related to open space, farmland preservation, community health, mobility, housing affordability, energy and water conservation, and more.
