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    Social Equity & Regional Growth Study (Download)
    Prepared by Keltie Craig Consulting on behalf of Metro Vancouver

    This study explores existing inequities within the Metro Vancouver region. It proposes how equity can be defined and addressed in long-range land use planning and creates policy recommendations.

    Regional Long-Range Growth and Transportation Scenarios Summary Report (Summary Report – Download ) (Technical Report – Download)
    Metro Vancouver Regional District and TransLink

    This report examines four possible futures for the region and key challenges and opportunities to be considered in any future regional transportation or land-use planning work, including the new Regional Transportation Strategy. The report also examines external forces that could affect the region – focusing on climate change, shifts in the global economy and trade, and new technologies, specifically artificial intelligence and automation. These external forces could impact employment, incomes, inequality, vehicle kilometres travelled, and other key factors relating to transportation and regional growth management.


    Regional Transportation and Mobility Current Context Report (Download)
    Prepared by Steer, on behalf of TransLink

    This report provides an analysis of key trends in transportation, mobility, and growth impacting the region today.


    2013 Regional Transportation Strategy Progress Report (Download)
    TransLink

    This report summarizes the current status of actions, investments and policy development undertaken in support of the 2013 RTS and the 2014 Mayors’ Council 10-Year Vision. It also provides learnings for the future RTS to consider and identifies potential gaps and emerging trends.


    An ex post facto Evaluation of a Metro Vancouver Transportation Plan (Link)
    Devon Robert Farmer, Simon Fraser University

    This thesis evaluates the effectiveness, implementation, and outcomes of Transport 2021, including factors that impacted the implementation, and recommends improvements for future strategies. Key recommendations to improve implementation include: provide TransLink with governance capacity and funding tools; consider all recommended projects and policies for funding and implementation; set performance targets for all transport modes; assign individual agencies with specific tasks; and use an adaptable approach to long-range planning.


    The Metro Vancouver Car Share Study (2014) (Technical Report, Summary Booklet)
    Metro Vancouver

    The 2014 Car Share Study found car share services reduced vehicle ownership, changed the number of vehicle-kilometres travelled, and the number of car share vehicles in the neighbourhood has some impact on the number of vehicles in apartment households. The study also identifies considerations for regional growth management and community planning such as car sharing’s relationship to household decisions, transit, suburban expansion, affordability, parking and fees, access, and apartment parking reductions.


    The Metro Vancouver Housing and Transportation Cost Burden Study (Download)
    Metro Vancouver

    Metro Vancouver’s Housing and Transportation Cost Burden Study quantifies and combines transportation and housing costs to provide a more complete picture of affordability for working households in the Metro Vancouver region. The study found: affordability considerations must include both housing and transportation costs; renters and low-income families spend the majority of their income on housing and transportation; access to frequent transit can help lessen the impact of high housing costs; and high housing and transport costs reduce the region’s competitiveness.


    Mobility Pricing Independent Commission: Metro Vancouver Mobility Pricing Study (Final Report)

    The Mobility Pricing Independent Commission was a group of 14 Lower Mainland representatives from a variety of organization across the region. They were selected and tasked by the TransLink Board of Directors and the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation to evaluate and make recommendations on how to develop and implement a regional road usage charging policy and system, and assess the implications for pricing of other types of transport and mobility.


    Regional Parking Studies (Link)
    Metro Vancouver and TransLink

    The 2018 Regional Parking Study was produced by Metro Vancouver and TransLink. The study surveyed 73 apartment sites and nearby streets. A household survey, comprising 1,500 responses was also completed. The study provides updated information to local government practitioners to inform appropriate apartment residential parking requirements, in particular near the Frequent Transit Network. “Rightsizing” apartment parking can improve the financial viability of apartment housing projects and potentially reduce the cost of housing for prospective renters and owners.


    Regional Screenline Survey – Fall 2017 (Summary Report, Interactive Data)
    TransLink

    This survey collected traffic counts and found since 2011 that region-wide weekday vehicle volumes, traffic across the Fraser River Main Arm, traffic into and out of the Central Business District has increased. The survey also found that inter-regional trips into and out of the Lower Mainland showed the largest percentage increase in traffic volumes, while cross border volumes were generally unchanged since 2011.


    Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Study (Link)
    Metro Vancouver

    Metro Vancouver and other partners examined opportunities and challenges to building new affordable rental housing in transit-oriented locations across the region. The first phase of the study found a supply gap for affordable rental housing; higher transit usage among renters, especially lower income renters; and that land and construction costs create barriers to providing rental housing development.

    The study’s second phase evaluated a potential regional revolving loan fund and policy approaches to reduce the barrier of high land costs.


    Transport 2021 Revisited: Background Report for Transport 2021 Symposium (Download)
    Christina DeMarco

    This report was produced for TransLink during the creation of the 2013 RTS document and provides a retrospective on the Regional Transportation Strategy from 1991 entitled “Transport 2021”. The report provides a summary of the progress made towards planned investments and mode share targets laid out in Transport 2021.


    TransLink

    The trip diary is a household travel survey conducted by TransLink approximately every five years to support transportation planning in the Metro Vancouver region. It is the most comprehensive source of information on overall travel patterns in the region, and it informs many decisions involved in delivering a better transportation system.


    Where Matters: Health & Economic Impacts of Where We Live (Policy Brief)
    University of British Columbia, J. Armand Bombardier Foundation, Metro Vancouver, TransLink, City of Vancouver, Real Estate Foundation, My Health My Community (Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health, University of British Columbia)

    This collaborative report examines the relationship between the built and natural environments and health, how health outcomes vary across different groups in Metro Vancouver, and how walkable communities can reduce health care costs.



    Climate Change and the Region

    Climate 2050 Strategic Framework ( Download)
    Metro Vancouver

    Metro Vancouver’s Climate 2050 Strategic Framework guides policies and collective actions to transition our region to a low carbon, resilient future. It will apply a climate lens to all of Metro Vancouver’s policies and actions to inform climate change greenhouse gas reduction and adaptation measures in the coming years.

    Economy and the Region

    Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2018 (Link)
    Greater Vancouver Board of Trade

    Scorecard 2018 ranked the Metro Vancouver region against 19 other metropolitan regions around the globe on economic and social issues and provides analysis on challenges facing our region. The scorecard notes that Metro Vancouver enjoys a competitive advantage in financial services, insurance, tourism and information technology and benefits from its proximity and trade with Asia. However, the region suffers from its relatively short public transit railway network, poor housing affordability, low per capita after-tax income, and fragmentation of industrial lands. The report suggests better regional coordination and governance for economic development, affordable housing, and transportation.

    Inland Terminal – Facts in Focus (2015) (Download)
    Metro Vancouver

    This policy backgrounder provides an overview of inland terminals, their potential benefits, factors for success, and constraints for goods movement in the Metro Vancouver region.

    Moving Goods through Marine Ports in Metro Vancouver – Facts in Focus (2013) (Download)
    Metro Vancouver

    This policy backgrounder outlines the state of goods movement through marine terminals in the Metro Vancouver region, and identifies policy issues, such as the need to protect health, safety and the environment, optimize efficiencies in the goods movement system, and coordinate among port authorities.


    Office Development in Metro Vancouver’s Urban Centres – 2018 Update (Download)

    Prepared by Eric Aderneck, on behalf of Metro Vancouver

    This report identifies challenges and opportunities for office potential in Metro Vancouver's Urban Centres, such as complex and lengthy development process, smaller urban centres attracting only limited office development, significant growth in tech sector, varying tenant preferences on location and amenities, the high costs of housing and living, and high land and construction costs.


    Short Sea Shipping in Metro Vancouver – Facts in Focus (2015) (Download)

    Metro Vancouver

    This policy backgrounder provides an overview of short sea shipping in the Metro Vancouver region, current forms and volumes of goods moved, related infrastructure, and potential expansion of short sea shipping.


    Health and Community Well-Being and the Region

    Transportation and Health in Metro Vancouver (Download)
    My Health My Community (Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health, University of British Columbia)

    This survey analysis examines the association between transportation choice and health outcomes in the Metro Vancouver region. The analysis found: active transportation users have improved health outcomes (lower body mass index, meeting recommended levels of physical activity); car users with long commute times have lower sense of community belonging; and transit use is highest among lower income households, visible minorities, and recent immigrants.

    VitalSigns 2016 (Link)
    Vancouver Foundation

    Based on a large survey, VitalSigns 2016 reports on how British Columbians feel about their communities. It surfaced what resident concerns are, where progress is being made, and what needs to be improved. The survey and report highlights key differences and commonalities between municipalities within Metro Vancouver in terms of quality of life, priorities, and other matters.


    Where Matters: Health & Economic Impacts of Where We Live (Report Forthcoming)
    University of British Columbia, J. Armand Bombardier Foundation, Metro Vancouver, TransLink, City of Vancouver, Real Estate Foundation, My Health My Community (Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health, University of British Columbia)

    This collaborative report examines the relationship between the built and natural environments and health, how health outcomes vary across different groups in Metro Vancouver, and how walkable communities can reduce health care costs.


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