New Method for Estimating and Projecting Vehicle Miles of Travel. Linkages to Landscape Change and Ozone Impacts to Northern Forests

摘要

Understanding how land use change affects forest health vis-a-vis increased travel requires an interdisciplinary, multiphase approach. The purpose of this report is to determine how to begin explicitly constructing and testing the linkages between land use, demographics, and VMT. Once these relationships are established, they will form the foundation for analyzing how land use change projections can be used to estimate future levels of VMT, ozone production, and ultimately forest health.