The Opportunities for Shared‐Use Mobility to Help CA Meet its Climate Goals Legislative Briefing Friday, May 15, 2015 Capitol Building Room 2040, Sacramento, CA The state of California is shifting priorities and funding towards more sustainable transportation, and regions are making tremendous progress towards improving accessibility and transportation options under SB 375—California’s landmark land use, transportation, and climate law. But, with the Governor’s new Executive Order to slash carbon pollution by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, traffic plaguing our commutes, and Californians dependent on their costly cars, we need to do more. Fortunately, new technologies, shifting demographics, and changing preferences provide fertile ground for improving accessibility and shifting to a low‐ carbon transportation system. New shared‐use mobility choices, such as carshare and bikeshare, can complement robust public transit and sustainable land use to improve accessibility for all Californians. AGENDA Welcome: Amanda Eaken, NRDC Opening remarks: Dr. Steven Cliff, Caltrans What is the role of reducing vehicle miles traveled in meeting CA’s climate goals? Shared‐Use Mobility Presentation: Dr. Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley What is shared‐use mobility? How can it contribute to meeting CA’s climate goals? Policy Recommendations: Dr. Dan Sperling, Air Resources Board and the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis How can policy makers encourage equitable and sustainable shared‐use mobility? Panel: Facilitated by Amanda Eaken, NRDC How does shared‐use mobility relate to economic growth, equitable transportation, and improving mobility? Emily Castor, Lyft Joel Espino, Greenlining Institute Gloria Ohland, Move LA For more information, please contact Amanda Eaken Presenters Emily Castor is the Director of Transportation Policy at Lyft. A member of the Lyft team since its launch, Emily manages transportation planning and environmental policies initiatives for Lyft. She also serves as the Chair of the Sharing Economy Advisory Network for the National League of Cities. Emily started her career as a transportation policy aide for San Diego Congresswoman Susan Davis, and later served as a municipal financial advisor. She holds an M.P.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from UC San Diego. She has been recognized by SAP as a “Top 40 Influencer of the Networked Economy.” Dr. Steven Cliff is the Assistant Director of Sustainability at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Prior to Caltrans, Dr. Cliff was the assistant chief of the Industrial Strategies Division at the California Air Resources Board (ARB). He had served in multiple positions at the ARB since 2008, including chief of the Climate Change Markets Branch in the Stationary Source Division; manager of the program development section in the Office of Climate Change; and air pollution specialist in the Office of Climate Change. He also served in different capacities at the University of California, Davis, since 1998, including positions in the Air Quality Research Center/Institute of Transportation Studies, the Department of Applied Science and the Atmospheric Science Graduate Group. Starting in 2001, he worked at the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Cliff earned his B.S. and PH.D. degrees in Chemistry from UC San Diego. Amanda Eaken is the Deputy Director of Urban Solutions at the Natural resources Defense Council. Her primary focus is reducing transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions through improved land use and transportation planning and policy. She was actively involved in the passage of SB 375—California’s landmark law which integrates transportation, land use, and housing to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions and more livable communities. She has supported the implementation of SB 375 in many regions across the state and is newly focused on the role of shared‐use mobility in healing achieve the goals of SB 375. Prior to joining NRDC, Amanda managed the construction of affordable housing projects with a non‐ profit developer in San Francisco. Amanda received her master’s degree in transportation and land use planning from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, and her B.A. in environmental and evolutionary biology from Dartmouth College Joel Espino is the Environmental Equity Fellow at the Greenlining Institute. He graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law where he received the San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association Public Interest Law Fellowship. While in law school, he worked at the California Appellate Project, the Office of Staff Attorneys at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Federal Trade Commission. At the Greenlining Institute, Joel works to solve poverty and pollution by advocating for clean transportation choices and green economic opportunities for underserved Californians. Joel is the lead author of "Electric Carsharing in Underserved Communities: Considerations for Program Success". Gloria Ohland is the Policy and Communications Director at MoveLA. Before working at MoveLA, she was vice president at the national nonprofit Reconnecting America, and a founding member of the Center for Transit‐Oriented Development, which was funded by Congress to promote best practices in TOD. She worked on the housing and transportation affordability index now used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to prioritize housing projects for funding. Since joining Move LA she has worked on implementing SB 375 and ensuring the creation of affordable, livable, prosperous neighborhoods along the transit system being built with funding from the Measure R sales tax. Dr. Susan Shaheen is an Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, the Co‐Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies’ Transportation Sustainability Research Center. She was honored as the first Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transportation at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis from 2000 to 2012. She served as the Policy and Behavioral Research Program Leader at California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways from 2003 to 2007, and as a special assistant to the Director's Office of Caltrans from 2001 to 2004. She has a Ph.D. in ecology, focusing on the energy and environmental aspects of transportation, from UC Davis and an M.S. in public policy analysis from the University of Rochester. After completing her master's degree, she worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. From 2000 to 2001, she was a post‐doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. Dr. Daniel Sperling is Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, and founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. He was the 2013 chair of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and is 2015 Chair of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. He received the 2013 Blue Planet Prize for being "a pioneer in opening up new fields of study to create more efficient, low‐carbon, and environmentally beneficial transportation systems" and 2010 Heinz Award for his "achievements in the research of alternative transportation fuels and his responsibility for the adoption of cleaner transportation policies in California and across the United States." He earned his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the UC Berkeley (with minors in Economics and Energy & Resources) and his B.S. in Environmental Engineering and Urban Planning from Cornell University. Professor Sperling worked two years as an environmental planner for the US Environmental Protection Agency and two years as an urban planner in the Peace Corps in Honduras.