Public Health Performance Indicators & SB 1 Transportation Funding Programs

Goals/objectives: To help the staff and decision makers at the CTC, MPOs/COGs, and Caltrans identify, develop, and use practical, sensible, and accessible public health performance measures that can be used to guide transportation planning decisions.

Engage in a collaboration with above mentioned key stakeholders to synthesize understanding around public health indicators and transportation projects, make recommendations, and develop calculation methods and possibly a calculator tool.

Project Methods:

A key goal will be to identify public health indicators that can be readily available, are relevant to both public health and transportation projects, and can sensibly guide transportation policy. This work program will do several key things, as follows:

1. Create a Stakeholder’s Advisory Group in partnership with the CTC’s External Advisor, to be made up of representatives from major and minor MPOs/COGs, Caltrans, and other key stakeholders.

2. Document the CTC’s decision making process around transportation projects to identify where public health indicators can be best applied; Document the types of health related data that the key stakeholders (major and minor MPOs, Caltrans, the CTC) gather and work with already.

3. Document what additional data are needed, or need to be calculated, to create public health performance indicators that can effectively guide transportation policy decisions.

4. Document what other tools and models are out there that could be used to provide transportation relevant public health indicators.

5. Document how these data relate to public health and transportation projects, and how they can be used to guide policy decisions.