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Click Here for a Table of Contents Click Here for Directions on How to View this Document Executive Summary Table of Contents Background 3 The Challenge of Mobility 3 Mobility Options 4 Telecommunications in Southern California 6 A Strategy for the Southern California Region 6 The Strategy Process 7 Vision for Tomorrow 10 Conclusion 11 TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORT JULY, 1996 Southern California Association of Governments Mission Statement Regional Council Members To enhance the quality of life of all Southern Californians by working in OFFICERS: partnership with all levels of government, Mayor Pro Tem Dick Kelly, Palm Desert Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, the business sector, and the community Los Angeles County Mayor, Bob Bartlett, City of Monrovia at large to meet regional challenges and Supervisor, Bob Buster, Riverside County to resolve regional differences. 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With the page Chino Hills ¥ Robert Nolan, Upland layout visible, you can click on a page icon to take you to that respective page. Judy Mikels, Ventura County ¥ Andrew Fox, Th o u s a n d Oaks ¥ Stan Daily, Camarillo ¥ John Melton, Santa Pau l a We hope that you enjoy this electronic visit to the Funding: The Preparation of this report was financed in part through grants from the United Southern California Telecommunications States Department of TransportationFederal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administrationunder provisions of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Deployment Strategy Report. Efficiency Act 1991. Additional financial assistance was pr ovided by the California State Department of Transportation. Exhibit 1 SCAG Regional Map ● SAN BERNARDINO VENTURA LOS ANGELES RIVERSIDE ORANGE IMPERIAL 2 Southern California Association of Governments The Southern California Telecommunications of over 13 million people and covers an area Deployment Strategy described in this sum- of 38,000 square miles. SCAQMD covers the mary provides the framework for the counties of Orange, most of Los Angeles, and Southern California Association of the western parts of Riverside and San Governments (Association), an agency whose Bernardino only. purpose is regional planning and coordina- tion ; and the Southern California Economic Partnership (The Partnership), a business- government civic coalition, to accelerate tech- The Challenge of Mobility • nology deployment. This strategy addresses telecommunications infrastructure, applica- Air quality in the Los Angeles basin is the tions, and policies, and their relationships to worst in the nation, impacted by a severe traf- mobility, air quality, energy consumption, and fic congestion condition. In the year 2015 the economy. “congestion on regional streets and highways will be greater, traffic movement will be slow- er, and the duration of traffic delay will more Background than triple,” according to a forecast in the 1994 update of the Regional Transportation Plan adopted by the Regional Council (70 board members) of the Association. The Partnership stakeholders are profession- als from business and government authorized The graph in Exhibit 2 illustrates the problem by their organizations to participate in order by showing the 1994 Plan forecast to influence and be influenced by its work. for average daily vehicle trips in Each one of the five different Industry Southern California for the Clusters within the Partnership focuses on a years ahead, out to the year different advanced transportation technology: 2015. Note that the starting electric vehicles, alternative fuels, smart point for the growth shown is shuttles, intelligent transportation systems, the 1990 average level of trips and telecommunications. in the region: 35,416,000 trips per day! The solid line represents a The Telecommunications Deployment forecast that assumes that there are no extra- Strategy evolved from a response to the ordinary public policy initiatives to reduce Northridge earthquake of January 1994, the trip-making in the years ahead. The dotted direction set for the advanced transportation line represents a forecast for a reduced technology in the Association's 1994 amount of vehicle trips to result if the Regional Transportation Plan, and the South Regional Transportation Plan of new lanes, Coast Air Quality Management more use of transit, road pricing, more District's (SCAQMD) adopted 1994 telecommuting, and other innovations are fol- Air Quality Management Plan. lowed. The reduction is unfortunately only California Department of about 1.9 percent in a region where growth Transportation (Caltrans) funded from one year to the next is expected to be much of the development of this 1.4 percent. More needs to be done. Telecommunications Strategy, as part of a collection of pro- As one response to the challenge of air quali- jects on the use of telecommu- ty and mobility, public policy of both nications in the response to Southern California local governments and emergencies, and the on-going the State of California is to increase the use management of the state trans- of telecommunications to move information portation system. instead of persons and goods. Moving infor- mation by telecommunications occurs when As shown on the map in Exhibit 1, people use telephones, pagers, fax machines, this region covers the six counties computer modems, Internet, voice mail, elec- of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, tronic mail, office computer networks, video Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura. conferencing, cash machines, credit or debit The Association is the largest Council of card authorization, bar scanners, electronic Governments in the nation, with a population kiosks, satellite services, over-the-air or cable television, or radio. TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORT JULY, 1996 3 Deployment Strategy. The Outreach program Mobility Options consisted of a series of newsletters and semi- nars, plus the publication of a telecommuting and alternative office implementation manual for Southern California. Implemented by Telecommunications provide important the Los Angeles County Metropolitan mobility options for people and organizations Transportation Authority, this public-private in many distinct ways. For example, electronic partnership focused upon education and terminals in shopping malls are letting peo- training as a means of accelerating adoption ple conduct business with banks, the post of telecommuting by 1,850 information-based office, public transit, and other businesses employers in Los Angeles County. In addi- and government agencies then and there tion, the Outreach program responds to instead of traveling to additional destina- potential disasters like the Northridge earth- tions. Transmitting medical images like X-rays Exhibit 2 Baseline and Plan for daily vehicle trips in six counties of Southern California 000 trips 55,000 50,000 45,000 40,000 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 Baseline Regional Plan Source: Regional Transportation Plan, 1994 and CAT scans over fiber optics can save trav- quake