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14 CHAPTER THREE CURRENT STATE OF PRACTICE: SURVEY RESULTS AND CASE STUDIES This chapter describes results of a survey of state and regional agencies and additional case studies illustrating the current state of practice for integrating tourism and recreation travel with transportation planning and project delivery. It is organized around four major elements of the current state of practice: (1)
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15 nonprofit sectors. Participation at this level includes local government agencies, civic or trade associations, private industry groups, and foundations.
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16 frequency of these concerns differs depending on the primary focus of the agency. That different types of agencies have different perspectives and priorities reinforces the importance of interagency coordination.
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17 Case Studies: State Transportation Directives Supporting Tourism The survey responses (as previously shown in Figures 1 and 2) demonstrated that state transportation departments have interest in a wide range of issues and activities relevant to tourism planning and development.
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18 Critical areas identified for recreation travel statewide included: • Data collection and modeling techniques to be adapted; • Corridor plans, typically developed using journey-towork data, to be revised; • DOT should proactively tie transportation improvement program (TIP) to opportunities to bring new tourism and recreation attractions to areas that have few other viable economic options; and • More efficient management of existing transportation resources in areas such as Cape May and Atlantic City, where there is little room to build extra capacity.
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19 FIGURE 3 State DOT implementation of multi-agency collaboration elements (percentage of respondents reporting that each element is now in-place or underway)
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20 • Institutional mechanisms to direct tourism industry input into state DOT activities, in the District of Columbia, Florida, Montana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. • State DOT processes to incorporate key tourism data in Montana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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21 Part of the funding was set aside for an evaluation of how the planning process performed. The process followed four steps: (1)
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22 cil, and New Hampshire DOT representatives worked on a public participation process to establish consensus and provide meaningful recommendations to how the Route 16 projects should proceed. This regional undertaking was funded and supported by the New Hampshire DOT, U.S.DOT, FHWA, and the two local planning councils.
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23 motivation supports the case for funding tourism transportation, and often there are clear guidelines for the evaluation of spending on tourism-serving projects. Among the surveyed state transportation departments, nearly one-half (48%)
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24 TABLE 2 AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY OF TOURISM DATA USED BY TRANSPORTATION AGENCY State DOTs reporting that available tourism data are: Type of Data Complete (%) Partial (%)
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25 Case Study of Data Analysis: Central Florida's Regional Study of Tourism and Commuter Trips This study was undertaken by the FDOT District 5 office (covering the Orlando region) to develop the data and models needed to provide more accurate forecasts of nonresident travel to central Florida.
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26 Separate sets of profiles focus on various forms of shuttle and transit services to serve visitors to tourism and recreation areas; tourism and recreation trails, tour routes, and scenic byways; and Internet, hard-copy publications, and telephone-based tourism and traveler information services. These profiles are followed by examples of other types of projects contained elsewhere in surveys and case studies in this document.
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27 major downtown visitor-oriented projects were to be finished) and expand the service in 2005.
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28 tional Center. The museum also serves as the visitor information center at the northern end of the scenic byway and was envisioned by ASU Community Development professor Dr.
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29 George, New York, traffic management strategies; and Washington, D.C. Greenways circulation system (see case study)
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