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Community Vision Metrics Web Tool

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Step 2: Geographic Scale
Step 3: Setting/Density
Step 4: Transportation Mode(s)

Tutorial/How-To

The Community Vision Metrics website is an easy-to-use tool, with searchable fields to help find performance indicators that match your community's context and goals. The tool contains more than seventeen-hundred metrics that have been linked to areas of interest in land use and transportation planning.

  • Please see the tutorial to learn about the features of Community Vision Metrics and how planning can help your community reach quality of life goals.

  • For instructions on how to use the tool effectively, please see the How-to.

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Welcome to Community Vision Metrics

This tool enables practitioners to search for performance indicators relevant to their specific circumstances, communities, and quality of life goals. Community Vision Metrics has the greatest impact when employed from the start of the planning and project development process, during visioning and goal setting.

This resource is designed for transportation, land use, and community planners to identify ways to measure the success of plans and projects in light of community goals.

Please note that the tool, by itself, does not evaluate the performance of scenarios or alternatives, but it does provide you with metrics that can help with your evaluation.

To begin searching for livability measures that fit your unique goals and context, you may choose one topic from the areas of interest listed below.

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