Developing a Sustainable Transportation Environmental Improvement Plan; “All children deserve a safe and healthy trip to and from school; via all modes of transportation including walking, biking, public transportation, school bus, or by automobile. Walking and biking are proven to increase activity for children and adults that reduces obesity and contributes to a more healthy life style, more livable and walkable communities with greater accessibility for all.”

1. Developing a Sustainable
Transportation Environmental
Improvement Plan
SJDOT TEAM Building
Making it Happen!
Roger Bazeley, M.S.T.M., M.S.I.D., C.T.S.M.
DesignStrategy-USA, Transportation Consultants
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2. WHY is a Sustainable DOT
EMVIRONVENTAL POLICY & PRACTICE
IMPORTANT ?
Transportation is a Significant Source of Air Pollution
(Impact Costs $2-$3 billion annually-Transact)
Roads and Streets are a Major Source of Water
Pollution – runoff & impervious surfaces
Transportation Contributes to Climate Change –
Transportation Sector is responsible for 32% of U.S.
CO2 emissions-Transact
Transportation is Responsible for High Energy
Consumption – 165 billion gallons of Petroleum based
fuels 43% of petroleum consumption annually-Transact
Transportation Operation Improvement, Reducing
Environmental Impacts, Cost Savings, and Improving
San Jose’s Walkablity can be accomplished through
Citywide Teamwork and Inter-Agency partnership.

3. Supporting and Coordinating
San Jose’s Green Mobility Goals
Power 100% of our City’s Vehicle
Fleet with Alternative Fuels
Replace 100% of our street lights
with smart, energy neutral lighting
Plant 100,000 new trees
Connect 100 miles of trails for
walking and biking

4. Supporting and Coordinating
San Jose’s Green Mobility Goals

5. Supporting and Coordinating
San Jose’s Green Mobility Goals

6. Minimizing the Impact of DOT
Activities on the Environment
Develop and Implement Strategy Plan
Systemize Performance Measures
Implement Annual Reporting
Requirements to address environmental
regulations/legislation (AB 32-Environmental
Global warming Solutions Act of 2006, CEQA, SAFETLU)
Identify and Analyze Environmental
threats for Mitigation Priority

7. 3 SJDOT Leadership Imperatives
Projecting realistic organizational and team goals
that embrace honesty and integrity at all stakeholder
levels: the public, management, vendors – An Atmosphere
of being “Safe to Express Ideas” and for “Decision Making”
Setting realistic performance measures and
controls that all team members/agencies can understand
and participate in reducing environmental impacts and
costs through innovation
Building Team “esprit de corps” through pride
and ownership---Doing it the “SJDOT Way” – Service to
the Customer our Community

8. Three levels for intervention:
POLICY PROJECT
CONCEPT
Influence policy, SITE
legislative law, Interject SPECIFIC
local ordnances, environmental Retrofit existing
funding policy into current problem areas
priorities, project planning, with new
methodology, pedestrian plan, environmentally
guidelines infrastructure friendly design
design and TOD’s & technologies

9. Vital Impact Areas for Implementing
Sustainable Improvement
State, Regional Citywide, Business Street/School
MPO, Cities, and Transit Corridors Site/Intersection
Neighborhoods
POLICY PLANNING DESIGN
Influence policies, Interject safety and Eliminate problems
practices, plans, ECO-design solutions with new design
programs and into current or future solutions and ITS
funding processes project plans technologies

10. Making San Jose’s Transportation
System safe, sustainable, and
environmentally friendly
The Transportation Green Mobility Plan involves:
transit vehicle fleet, city car and truck vehicles (VTA, police,
fire, departmental/service fleet) and the very streets and land-
use environments where operated.
A SJDOT GMP would result in a plan that would:
reduce the impacts to the environment and
prioritize the needs of walking, bicycling, transit use, and the
use of streets and transit corridors as public spaces for social
interaction and community life following San Jose’s Green
Mobility Plan’s Goals.
result in a “Green Network” that enhances the City’s long-
term ecological functioning and peoples connection to the
natural environment.

11. TEN ELEMENTS OF GREEN
MOBILITY IMPROVEMENT
01-Designing streets that enhance the human connection
to the natural and built environments.
02-Designing residential and neighborhood commercial-
transit corridor streets to support connectivity, by removing
barriers to free movement and transit accessibility.
03-Streetscape amenities: crossings, street-lighting,
furniture, and landscaping strips/plantings creating buffers
which minimize traffic/transit sounds and create favorable
microclimate conditions—tree shade for pedestrians.
04-Design and maintain streets as green corridors: tree
canopy and ground level landscaping-storm water
management through increasing permeable surface areas,
eco-irrigation technologies/methods.

12. TEN ELEMENTS OF GREEN
MOBILITY IMPROVEMENT
05-Designing streets to reduce pedestrian injuries and
fatalities through infrastructure improvements, installing
pedestrian-scaled lighting for increasing night visibility to
autos and transit vehicles.
06-Create a citywide pedestrian, bike, and transit network
to connect activity centers, transit hubs by identifying gaps
in pedestrian and bike accessibility.
07-Managing maintenance and modernization of streets,
new (TOD) development, and transportation improvements
to encourage local neighborhood commerce that invites
public transit use over car use— thereby reducing parking
impacts.

13. TEN ELEMENTS OF GREEN
MOBILITY IMPROVEMENT
08-Provide maintenance for streets that reflect a high
level of plant health, cleanliness, and repair—with the
ability to encourage community stewardship
09-Develop transit and city vehicle fleet phase-out
plan of gasoline fuel to alternative clean energy fuels
and hybrid-electric engine technologies. (Natural
Gas/CNG)
10-Develop environmental design guidelines,
specification, and work procedures for programs
which reduce traffic impacts, air-pollution, and
development impacts to land-use/neighborhoods.

14. Supporting and Coordinating
San Jose’s Green Mobility Goals

15. SJDOT GREEN MOBILITY PLAN
Process and Implementation Goals
Education: Provide Education and outreach to
community members, decision makers, and City staff
about transportation Green Mobility goals, issues,
design, and implementation.
Enforcement: Reduce parking and traffic congestion
that negatively impacts San Jose’s air quality and
pedestrian/bike safety.
Monitoring: Create and implement performance
measures and goals and gather baseline data to
assess GMP goals and policies.

16. SJDOT GREEN MOBILITY PLAN
Process and Implementation Goals
Monitoring: Implement a program that evaluates
performance measures and periodically reports on goal
attainment.
Monitoring: Create a method to update codes,
standards, and procedures.
Maintenance: Develop maintenance program that uses
available resources effectively and efficiently.
Maintenance: Coordinate, streamline, clarify the roles
and responsibilities of city agencies for public right of
way maintenance considering cost savings.

17. SJDOT GREEN MOBILITY PLAN
Process and Implementation Goals
Maintenance: Maintain street infrastructure in a manner
that optimizes life-cycle resource use and costs:
resource extraction, long-term maintenance,
replacement, and disposal costs.
Maintenance: Implement a strategy that uses an asset
management system evaluating cost impact of repairing,
replacing, or upgrading street infrastructure in a timely
and preventative manner rather than deferred
maintenance.
Maintenance: Identify best available environmental
sound technologies and materials for maintaining
transportation infrastructure.

18. SJDOT GREEN MOBILITY PLAN
Process and Implementation Goals
Maintenance: Accompany all transportation infrastructure
projects with a long-range maintenance and task or project
specific Green Mobility (GMP) improvement plan strategy.
Planning/Design: Analyze and mediate areas where
design and maintenance needs are in conflict to resolve
barriers to new designs, technologies, or materials.
Planning/Design: Identify and use best practices,
innovations, and technologies from urban design,
transportation planning and environmental engineering to
improve transportation infrastructure.

19. SJDOT GREEN MOBILITY PLAN
Process and Implementation Goals
Planning/Design: Create design templates for street and
transportation improvement projects that serve a variety
of functions and integrate multi-functional elements.
Institutional Coordination: Improve inter-agency
planning and design roles to eliminate redundancy but
considers specialized expertise of individual
agencies/department teams.
Outreach: Improve agency transparency and educate
the public about the actual costs and efficiency savings
of Green Mobility improvements.

20. SJDOT GREEN MOBILITY PLAN
Process and Implementation Goals
Intuitional Coordination City Staff educational
workshops, training and participation regarding
application of Green Mobility applicable processes,
information exchange
Institutional Coordination: Identify cost and maintenance
priorities for transportation projects, transportation
capital improvements for vehicle fleets, or infrastructure.
Funding: Create an adequate funding plan for planning,
infrastructure, capital and maintenance improvements
incorporating the GMP goals and vision.

21. Pedestrians: Have Rights and
Expectations for a Safe Journey

22. Three E’s of Safety: Engineering, Education, Enforcement
Engineering: Design Enhancements

23. School Site Improvements
Bold/Yellow School LADDER crosswalks

24. School Zone/Site: New Technology
FYG Signs, Signals/Traffic Control Devices
School/PED
Zone Driver FYG
LED Speed
Feedback Signs
(3M)
Embedded
Strobe pavement
lights
Crosswalks and
School Zones

25. New Technologies:
Communicate and Educate 24/7
Countdown
OLD PED
Signal

26. Regional Pedestrian Safety:
Educational and Safety PSA Programs

27. RMB1
Educational: Safety Outreach-Bikes

28. Slide 27
RMB1 San Francisco DPT Bike Commuting/Safety Print Brochure
Roger_Bazeley, 5/4/2004

29. Benefits: Safer Walkable Communities
Workshops, School/Community Audits, Building Active Partnerships
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30. Supporting and Coordinating
San Jose’s Green Mobility Goals

31. Be Aware, Be Safe, Be Active, Walk & Bike---or Skate
SUPPORT GREEN MOBILITY