Granting Air Quality Credit for Land Use Measures : Policy Options

By Environmental Protection Agency

Book Id: WPLBN0000123334
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Granting Air Quality Credit for Land Use Measures : Policy Options
Author:	Environmental Protection Agency
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Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


Citation APA MLA Chicago Agency, E. P. (n.d.). Granting Air Quality Credit for Land Use Measures : Policy Options. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Excerpt: Although the information described in this report has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Contract No. 68-C7-0051, it has not been subjected to the Agency’s peer and administrative review and is being released for information purposes only. It therefore may not necessarily reflect the views of the Agency and no official endorsement should be inferred.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Land Use Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Regional Land Use Forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Modifying the Baseline Quantification Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii The SIP Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii The Conformity Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Chapter 1 - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.3 Report Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 2 - Policy Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1 General SIP Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 The SIP Baseline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Economic Incentive Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4 Voluntary Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.5 Maintenance Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.6 Transportation Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.7 Policy Options Not Chosen for Further Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chapter 3 - Land Use Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.1 General Land Use and Transportation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.2 Implementing Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.3 Land Use Measure Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.4 Impact of Land Use Policies and Programs on Urban Form . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.5 Measuring the Impact of Urban Form Change on Travel and Emissions . . 28 3.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chapter 4 - Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4.1 The Baseline Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4.2 The SIP Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.3 The Conformity Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40