Kern COG committees such as Transportation Technical Advisory Committee (TTAC), Regional Planning Advisory Committee (SSTAC) or Social Services Technical Advisory Committee (SSTAC) occasionally form temporary or permanent sub-committees for specific functions. ...
Since the 1990s Kern COG has maintained a regional travel demand model and socio-economic forecast. The program uses data from local, state and federal surveys, a regional traffic count program and a regional land use model. To minimize duplication of effort, the Kern...
Because public involvement in the transportation planning process is important to ensuring that decisions reflect the needs of the entire community, Kern COG actively seeks public opinion on our work programs and project at all stages of the process. Our public...
The Kern Council of Governments, through an agreement with the California State Department of Finance, Demographic Research Unit, functions as the Affiliate State Census Data Center for the Kern region. Kern COG maintains a repository for current and past Census data....
On September 30, 2008, Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 375 into law. SB 375 was introduced as a result of AB 32, the climate change legislation signed into California law in 2006. SB 375 builds on the existing regional transportation planning process to connect the...
