(a) (1) The commission shall convene relevant state agencies to assess the procurement and implementation of data, modeling, and analytic software tools to support the state’s sustainable transportation, congestion management, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, economic, and climate change strategies and goals.

(2) For purposes of this section, “data, modeling, and analytic software tools” may include, but are not limited to, software licenses or subscription licenses to travel demand models, models informed by global positioning system or other spatial information, and other mobility information and data, modeling, and analytic software tools related to commercial freight, demographics, census tract-level land use, transportation safety, transportation-induced emissions, consumer spending, or travel forecasts.

Terms Used In California Government Code 14533.4

  • City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
  • Commission: means the California Transportation Commission. See California Government Code 14501
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
  • Process: includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. See California Government Code 22
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Government Code 10
  • subscription: includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the signer's or subscriber's name. See California Government Code 16

(b) (1) On or before July 1, 2025, the commission shall develop a proposal to procure data, modeling, and analytic software tools and a process by which the commission grants access to state and local agencies to the data it procures directly, or provide a process for direct allocation of funding to agencies for data procurement, or both.

(2) As part of the proposal or process described in paragraph (1), the commission shall identify general types of data sources, desired data outputs, and modeling parameters that may be used by state and local agencies to allow for high-level consistency of data.

(3) As part of the proposal or process described in paragraph (1), the commission may establish best practices for the use of data in transportation planning and may identify data elements that should be made available to state and local agencies wherever possible and consistently used in transportation planning. The commission may incorporate best practices or guidance provided by the secretary in accordance with the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58).

(4) As a condition of receiving a grant of funds or access to data, modeling, and analytic software tools provided by the commission under this section, a state or local agency shall be required to submit a report no later than August 1, 2027, to the commission about the use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools for sustainable transportation, safety, active transportation planning, equity, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, or climate change-related programs.

(5) The commission shall submit a report to the Legislature no later than June 1, 2028, based on the reports received pursuant to paragraph (4) regarding the use of the data, modeling, and analytic software tools procured pursuant to this section by state and local agencies for sustainable transportation, safety, active transportation planning, equity, affordable housing, efficient land use, air quality, and climate change-related programs.

(c) For purposes of this section, “local agency” means a county, city, city and county, special district, authority, agency, any other municipal public corporation or district, or other political subdivision of the state, and agencies that have a role in transportation planning, including, but not limited to, regional transportation planning agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and transportation authorities and commissions.

(d) (1) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) is inoperative on January 1, 2030 pursuant to § 10231.5 of the Government Code.

(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) shall be submitted in compliance with § 9795 of the Government Code.

(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 541, Sec. 2. (AB 744) Effective January 1, 2024.)

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