Regional transportation plans: transportation network companies.

(1) Existing law requires designated transportation planning agencies to, among other things, prepare and adopt a regional transportation plan. Existing law requires a regional transportation plan to include a policy element, an action element, a financial element, and, if the transportation planning agency is also a metropolitan planning organization, a sustainable communities strategy. Under existing law, the policy element describes the transportation issues in the region, identifies and quantifies regional needs, and describes the desired short-range and long-range transportation goals, as well as pragmatic objective and policy statements. Existing law authorizes the policy element of transportation planning agencies with populations that exceed 200,000 persons to quantify a set of specified indicators. This bill would authorize the inclusion of an additional indicator regarding measures of policies to increase use of existing transit. (2) The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act provides for the regulation of charter-party carriers of passengers by the Public Utilities Commission and includes specific requirements for liability insurance coverage, background checks, and other regulatory matters applicable to transportation network companies (TNCs) and their participating drivers. This bill would require, in a specified commission rulemaking relating to TNCs, any decision that the commission issues regarding data sharing to reflect the needs of governmental entities, including metropolitan planning organizations, state and local transportation agencies, and the State Air Resources Board, in fulfilling their responsibilities for analyzing and planning for the impacts of TNCs, preparing sustainable communities strategies, meeting the goals of those strategies, and complying with federal air quality conformity mandates. The bill would require that the data provided pursuant to that requirement be deidentified and aggregated, as defined.