This toolkit offers resources to help transportation planning agencies learn from California’s unique policy landscape and identify actions and practices from California that could be taken back to their jurisdictions. The toolkit complements the findings and insights discussed at the workshop titled “Learning from the California Experience: Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure” held on March 22, 2017 in Sacramento, California.

The Learning from California Experience toolkit is comprised of six components: resource library, a case study and tools, conference materials, and photo gallery. The resource library provides existing resources on alternative fuel policies, with an emphasis on policies in California. The case study highlights how effective interagency collaboration facilitated the development of the California Sustainable Freight Action Plan. The alternative fuels timeline details the major milestones that allowed for alternative fuel development and deployment in the United States. There are two interactive maps in this toolkit: the first allows users to search for alternative fueling stations, while the second allows users to view locations of truck parking facilities in comparison to existing truck stop electrification infrastructure. Both of the maps allow users to search by highway corridor. The conference materials include a one-page workshop fact sheet, a summary report, speaker presentations, and the case study handouts that were used to guide the breakout group discussions. Finally, the photo gallery contains pictures of the workshop speakers and discussions.