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Traditional road-building focus until 1990
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Fiscal, political and physical reality intervened
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Goal – Hold Traffic to 1994 levels, reduce SOV mode share to 25%
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Why not just build more roads?
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If Boulder pursued a road capacity building project:
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$200 million on road capacity projects
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improve system congestion from 60% in 20 years to 51% congested
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would require removing existing buildings in many cases
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evidence shows that the benefits are offset by changed behaviors.
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Vehicle Technology
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greatest short term potential in higher fuel economy – lower emission vehicle
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biofuels not a definite benefit
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plug in hybrids (PHEV) beneficial if on a clean energy grid
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technology alone will not be enough
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Land use transportation connection with compact development
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shifting investments from conventional to transit and bicycle transportation.
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Smart Grid City
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Monitoring and remote information of all uses of energy in the grid
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Renewable energy
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programmable in-home systems to fully automate renewable energy use. (XCEL Energy)
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PHEV capacity in a pilot project with Vehicle to Grid battery storage (V2G)
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Beginning to see homeowners oversizing solar system anticipating PHEV availability.
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Compact Land Use
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Urban growth boundary surrounded by publicly owned open space.
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Travel Choices
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Transit Services
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Designed to meet the needs of the customer
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high frequency
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supported by pass programs – lots of options.
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extended hours of service
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community characters
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real time arrival information
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focus on ridership, not coverage.
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Create Demand for Transit
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Bike System
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Pedestrian System
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Marketing and information
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Land Use/Urban Design
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Parking Pricing
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Partnership with University of Colorado
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But with very limited funds.
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Resarch shows that VMT reductions nationwide could be as much as 30% by 2050 – without any other inputs for change.
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