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Appendix A - Transportation Agency Examples of Corridor-Based Planning
Appendix A - Transportation Agency Examples of Corridor-Based Planning
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, which includes • Statewide mobility corridors, which are defined as corridors that provide "safe, free-flowing, high-speed corridors" serving major metropolitan areas and surrounding states; • Regional corridors designed to provide mobility within regions of the state; and • Local access corridors, which include the remainder of the highway system. The Indiana DOT through the INDOT 2030 Long Range Plan defines the state's transportation system by the level of system management responsibility -- state, MPO, and small urban and rural areas.
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The state must also ensure that regions are connected and that interstate needs are addressed. As further noted, the intent of the statewide multimodal networks is not to replace regional plans, but to "connect the dots" among regional and modal agency plans.
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For example, 38 A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning Figure A-2. Corridors of statewide significance and population location, Michigan.
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The SIS includes all forms of transportation and integrates individual facilities, services, modes, and linkages into Transportation Agency Examples of Corridor-Based Planning 39 Criteria for Identifying Statewide Corridors -- Florida Mobility/Connectivity • System connectivity – Gaps in existing system – Intermodal connectivity – Connectivity to Strategic Intermodal System – Connectivity to regional systems • Congestion/delay/reliability • Freight and visitor flows • Emergency evacuation and response • Safety Economic Competitiveness • Access to industry clusters and international trade gateways • Access to fast-growing areas • Access to economically distressed areas • Economic development benefits • Economic disruptions Community Livability • Land use and development • Comprehensive planning and visioning • Multi-use facilities • Historic and archaeological resources • Noise and aesthetics • Degree of community support Environmental Stewardship • Conservation lands • Surface waters • Wetlands • Coastal and marine • Threatened/endangered habitat • Air quality • Energy consumption Source: Florida's Future Corridors Adopted Action Plan. Florida DOT, Central Office, December 2006, p.
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Identify Study Corridors The following examples illustrate some of the approaches that could be used by transportation agencies to identify potential corridors for inclusion in the SWCP. Colorado The current statewide transportation plan, Moving Colorado -- Visions for the Future, is a policy-level, corridor-based plan in which the DOT defines corridors, identifies specific need categories established by public input for each corridor, and reviews financial abilities and limitations.
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Florida Florida's Future Corridors Action Plan was developed to identify a vision, goals, objectives, planning processes, and implementation strategies for statewide multimodal transportation corridors for the next 50 years. The evaluation criteria in the Florida Transportation Plan were used to guide decisionmaking for the Future Corridors Program.
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In particular, corridors were chosen that have the potential to address the majority of the criteria specified in the state's long-range plan, including the following: • Corridors serving crucial sectors of the economy or major population centers; • Corridors producing significant travel activity for both passenger and freight traffic; • Corridors that show significant growth in travel or economic development; and • Corridors that serve an important role for transportation modes, other than automobile. Local land use and development plans have also influenced corridor selection.
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2006.) Source: Florida's Future Corridors Adopted Action Plan.
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Source: Florida's Future Corridors Adopted Action Plan. Florida DOT, Central Office, December 2006, p.
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; • The current travel demand along the facility, including the traffic volumes of passengers vehicles and trucks, and, depending on the level of analysis, bikes and/or pedestrians; Transportation Agency Examples of Corridor-Based Planning 45 Example Corridor Vision Statement, U.S. 491, Colorado Goals • Provide for tourist-friendly transit • General safety improvements • Plan for increased oil and gas production impacts to the road system • Support economic development and maintain traffic operations • Accommodate growth in freight transport • Reduce fatalities, injuries, and property damage crash rate Strategies • Add acceleration/deceleration lanes and turn lanes • Eliminate shoulder deficiencies and improve hot spots • Add surface treatment/overlays • Improve ITS traveler information, traffic management, and incident management • Add drainage improvements • General safety improvements • Retain natural and cultural resources and viewsheds • Add passing lanes where feasible • Improve wildlife crossings Source: Moving Colorado, Vision for the Future, 2030 Statewide Transportation Plan.
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; • Corridor travel demand modeling; • Benefit/cost analysis frameworks applied to specific types of projects; • Economic impact models that have focused on business attraction, business expansion, tourism, etc.; 46 A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning
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Ohio ODOT based its previous statewide transportation plan on a macro highway corridor system that provided targeted investment opportunities on those projects that best met statewide goals. The most recent transportation plan defines a macro corridor completion as "corridor segments achieving safety, operational, and design adequacy standards" as defined below: • Safety -- adequacy is achieved when the crash rate, accidents per annual million vehicle-miles and the crash density per mile are less than 2.5 and 75, respectively.
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Specific performance measures and objectives have been developed for each investment category, allowing the Transportation Commission and CDOT to make informed trade-offs as they decide how best to allocate limited financial resources. These categories are applied to available funding and matched to corridor needs outlined in the corridor vision statements.
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