Presenters:
Kelly Kwok
University of Southern California
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) recently adopted its Connect SoCal 2024 (RTP/SCS). The 15-minute community concept was incorporated as one of the plan’s strategies for making communities more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive by providing adequate essential amenities and mobility options and reducing VMT. This project explores 15-minute communities and potential VMT reduction in the region, and its relationship to SCAG’s Priority Equity Communities through advanced spatial analysis combined with big data and activity-based model outputs.
