Increase Transportation Mode Choice Reduce Emissions

Transportation Legislation Review Committee. The bill requires the department of transportation (department), no later than October 31, 2025, to present a statewide mode choice assessment to the transportation legislation review committee, the transportation commission, and the Colorado energy office, which assessment must include recommendations for targets for 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045, and 2050 for the department, metropolitan planning organizations, and transit providers that provide public transit to a population of 100,000 individuals or more (subject transit provider) for the share of total trips within a specified geographic area completed using certain transportation methods (mode choice targets).

No later than June 1, 2026, using certain criteria, the department must adopt rules establishing mode choice targets. The department must reassess the mode choice targets before each statewide plan development cycle.

No later than October 31, 2026, and every 3 years thereafter, the department, in coordination with the metropolitan planning organizations, must present a report to the transportation legislation review committee that provides certain information about the mode choice targets and the entities' plans to implement the mode choice targets (mode choice implementation plans).

No later than December 31, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, the department, metropolitan planning organizations, subject transit providers, and local governments with a population of 25,000 individuals or more must each prepare a mode choice implementation plan, which must include certain information about the mode choice targets, a multimodal transportation gaps summary, and an analysis of certain projected greenhouse gas emissions.

The bill also allows:

• The nonattainment area air pollution mitigation enterprise to award grants for the development of mode choice implementation plans; and
• The multimodal transportation options fund to be used for the development of mode choice implementation plans.
  (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)