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Table 1. Task Force <br />Task Force Members Affiliation <br />Senator Peter Courtney (co-chair) Oregon Senate, President <br />Representative Dave Hunt (co-chair) Oregon House of Representatives, Speaker <br />Gail Achterman (co-vice chair) Oregon Transportation Commission, Chair <br />John VanLandingham (co-vice chair) Land Conservation and Development <br />Commission, Chair <br />Craig Campbell AAA/Oregon <br />Mark Capell Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization <br />(MPO) (Bend City Councilor) <br />Jon Chandler Oregon Homebuilders Association <br />Dan Clem Salem-Keizer MPO <br />(Salem City Councilor) <br />Albert Densmore Rogue Valley MPO <br />(Medford City Councilor) <br />Senator Jackie Dingfelder Oregon Senate <br />Chris Hagerbaumer Oregon Environmental Council <br />Mike Hoglund Metro <br />Representative Nick Kahl Oregon House of Representatives <br />Mary Kyle McCurdy 1000 Friends of Oregon <br />Linda Modrell Corvallis MPO <br />(Benton County Commissioner) <br />Alan Zelenka Central Lane MPO <br />(Eugene City Councilor) <br />Additional Participants Affiliation <br />Representative E. Terry Beyer Oregon House of Representatives <br />The Problem <br />Transportation accounts for over a third of Oregon’s GHG emissions -- of the total GHG <br />emissions produced by the transportation sector, Light Vehicles account for 60% of the GHG <br />emissions from the transportation sector or 20% of Oregon’s total GHG emissions. Figure 1 <br />illustrates the relative importance of Light Vehicle travel to Oregon’s total GHG emissions. <br />In Oregon, the six metropolitan statistical areas (MSA)—Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, <br />Salem, Eugene-Springfield, Medford, Bend, and Corvallis—account for most of the state’s <br />x <br />population. As the entities responsible for regional transportation planning, Oregon’s six <br />MPOs associated with these MSAs have an important role in planning the transportation <br />system—including the role of development patterns—in order to reduce GHG emissions as <br />part of Oregon’s larger strategy, primarily by planning to reduce the number of miles <br />traveled by transportation vehicles, or shifting those miles to more efficient modes of <br />xi <br />transportation. <br />In 2004, the Governor’s Advisory Group on Global Warming recommended two important <br />xii <br />components of Oregon’s coordinated strategy: <br />Page 5 <br />