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OAKLAND, CA — Did you know that the Bay Area outpaced every one of the other Top 10 U.S. metro areas except Houston for job growth from 2010 through 2013? Or that more new housing units were permitted...

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Reduce your carbon footprint by going car-free on Sept. 22, a day marked across the globe as Car-Free Day. Communities all over the world are encouraging residents to take public transit, walk or bike...

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Vital Signs is a website created by MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments that tracks data trends in five key areas: land and people, transportation, economy, environment and equity. This...

Vital Signs data shows short-term improvement for our air quality. That's largely because of California's strict clean air standards and successful Spare-the-Air days enforced by the Bay Area Air...

The Vital Signs update on transportation data, highlights the latest trends for commuting, congestion, transit ridership, and infrastructure conditions in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The latest Vital Signs update for the San Francisco Bay Area shines a spotlight on key social equity issues across the region, ranging from housing affordability to displacement risk.

MTC’s Vital Signs performance monitoring initiative just released updated data for three indicators related to transportation: time spent in congestion, miles traveled in congestion, and travel time...

New updates to MTC's Vital Signs performance monitoring initiative for five indicators related to the Bay Area's land & people and air quality have been released. Learn more on the Bay Area's latest...

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) has unveiled its annual ranking of the Bay Area’s most congested freeway segments, with the westbound morning commute along Interstate 80 from Hercules...

This data module, titled Vital Signs: Environment, covers such topics as greenhouse gas emissions, air quality and sea-level rise as well as roadway safety issues. The release rounds out the first...