Vision California
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Project Summary
| Client: | California High Speed Rail Authority |
| 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 is an unprecedented effort to explore the critical role of land use and transportation investments in meeting the environmental, fiscal, and public health challenges facing California over the coming decades. The project, which is currently underway, is producing new scenario development and analysis tools, and a series of alternative physical visions for how California can accommodate expected growth. Vision California will clearly express the consequences of these options to facilitate decisions about the investments and policies that will drive California’s growth – it will do this in time to inform and impact critical state and regional policy decisions, and to inform and sync with improvements to regional travel models.
The alternative futures produced in Vision California will not just be a collection of goals, policies, maps, or pictures – they will be quantitatively assessed to show how varying land use and infrastructure investments can meet state goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as related objectives for open space and farmland preservation, community health, mobility, housing affordability, energy and water use, and more. It is this unique combination of alternatives and the quantification of their impacts that can lead to more informed and strategic decisions about the future of our state. By clearly defining the critical consequences of various growth options, it will enable informed policy decisions to be made about how to shape the California's growth.
