Transportation for Communities - Advancing Projects Through Partnerships
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Transportation Phases
- Long Range Transportation Planning
- Integrated Programming and Fiscal Constraint
- Corridor Planning
- Environmental Review Merged with Permitting
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LRP-6
Approve Strategies
Description: Strategies are developed to address the deficiencies identified in LRP-4. A strategy is a specific tactic or policy employed or recommended by an organization. Strategies could include road or multi-modal improvements, land use changes, and other means of addressing deficiencies.
There is information developed in prior key decisions that informs this step. In order to effectively execute this key decision there is essential information coming from the land use process related to land use strategies.
Purpose
To develop and evaluate groups of strategies relative to stated needs.
Outcome
A range of strategies to address transportation deficiencies and achieve vision and goals.
Partner Roles | ||
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FHWA |
Advisor |
Ensures that strategies are inclusive and reasonable to consider |
MPO |
Decision Maker |
Ensures that strategies reflect all reasonable options for meeting the identified needs |
Resource Agency |
Advisor |
Support strategies that are sufficiently broad to consider indirect and cumulative impacts, avoidance and minimization of impacts to resources and are supportive of vision and goals developed with input from partners and stakeholders. |
State DOT |
Advisor |
Ensures the process is inclusive, meets federal requirements, and is compatible with state needs and goals |
Process |
Integration Type |
Integration Description |
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| Land Use and Smart Growth | Data | • Information about major assumptions made in the land use planning process in terms of constraints that need to be considered. • Land use strategies incorporated into the adopted plan (where applicable) • Data or analyses from land use planning that supports individual strategies |
| Analysis | • Amount of growth and type of growth that will be allocated in the planning area; • Changes in the land plan since the last LRTP update (Have the priorities changed?). • How recommended transportation vision and goals (LRP 2) compare to the vision and goals of land use plans. | |
| Analysis | Reach consensus on the degree of flexibility or change that the land planners are willing to implement to support the transportation decision making process. • Purpose - To identify additional land use strategies. • Outcome - A range of land use strategies to consider. | |
| Air Quality Conformity | Data | • Air quality data or information • Data or analyses from air quality planning that supports individual strategies |
| Natural Environment and the IEF | Data From IEF Step 2 - Characterize Resource Status & Integrate Natural Environment Plans | The map of conservation, restoration and enhancement priorities should inform the strategies developed in LRP and approved in LRP-6. Partners would be using this data to avoid transportation strategies that would impact priority areas for conservation, restoration and enhancement. |
| Capital Improvement | Data | Data or analyses from capital improvement planning that supports individual strategies |
| Safety and Security | Data | • Safety / Security goals, strategies, and objectives (where available) • Data or analyses from safety and security planning that supports individual strategies |
| Human Environment | Data | • Community / human environment goals, strategies, and objectives (where available). • Data or analyses from human environment planning that supports individual strategies |
| Economic Development | Data | Information about the potential economic development outcomes for various strategies. |
| Greenhouse Gas | Data | • Existing and committed project list for baseline and planning horizon years • Relevant state and federal policies (current and future) • Potential strategies that can provide GHG reduction benefits • Target GHG reductions, if applicable • Previously conducted analysis results to support effective review of individual and packaged transportation strategies, for example screening-level assessment results conducted in the region or in other areas |
Linkages to other Phases of Transportation Decision Making | ||
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Key Decision |
What is Linked? |
Purpose of Linkage |
To Corridor Planning Studies |
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COR-1 - Approve Scope of Corridor Planning Process |
The approved range of strategies |
To provide a regional context of the range of strategies for the corridor |
To Environmental Review |
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ENV-1 - Reach Consensus on Scope of Environmental Review |
The approved range of strategies |
To provide a regional context of the range of strategies to inform the environmental review/ permitting phase |
Policy Questions |
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Questions about purpose and roles |
Is there broad support and/ or an implementing sponsor for any individual strategy? |
What partners were involved in the development of the strategies? | |
Questions about stakeholders |
Is there broad support and/ or an implementing sponsor for any individual strategy? |
What stakeholders were involved in the development of the strategies? | |
Questions about the transportation process supporting the decision |
Can the strategies result in a broad range of project types, including those related to tolling and alternative revenue and finance sources? |
Do these strategies actually implement our vision and goals? | |
Was a broad range of strategies developed and evaluated? | |
What lessons can be drawn from P3 experiences in the region and elsewhere to inform strategy selection? | |
Questions about other phases |
No specific questions. |
Questions about non-transportation sectors/processes |
Can the strategies result in a broad range of project types? |
Do the strategies avoid priority areas for ecological conservation, restoration and mitigation? | |
Do the strategies consider local economic realities such as land capacity constraints, wages/affordability of the local population, and the interests of local businesses? | |
Do the strategies minimize negative economic impacts overall and to specific vulnerable populations? | |
How does the regional GHG reduction from proposed strategies contribute to any statewide goals for GHG reduction? | |
What scenarios contain transportation strategies may have implications for GHG emissions? Examples may include system management and operations, demand management, and land use integration | |
What type of analysis is required to support the evaluation of particular strategies? | |
Which GHG reduction strategies are the most effective from a benefit-cost perspective? | |
Which GHG reduction strategies would be required to meet any established targets? | |
Which strategies are most effective in meeting GHG goals? | |
Which strategies are supportive of land use goals? | |
Questions to Gather Stakeholder Interests |
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| Given the vision and goals, deficiencies, and financial assumptions, if available, what are your ideas to incorporate into the plan? |
| What combinations of strategies would you recommend be tested? |
Questions to Incorporate Stakeholder Interests |
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| Are the strategies feasible and rational? |
| What combinations of strategies did the stakeholders suggest? |
| What is the justification for eliminating any strategies? |
| What suggested strategies are not included in our final list? |
Case Study Example(s): |
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None. |
Supporting Data for the Key Decision |
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From other phases of transportation decision making |
Long Range Planning |
Strategies that were considered in the past and any available results | Existing and committed project list for baseline and planning horizon years |
Programming |
Data concerning individual funding source requirements |
Effectiveness of alternative finance and revenue generation strategies |
Potential effectiveness of P3 projects in meeting funding goals |
Corridor Planning |
No Specific Data |
Environmental Review |
No Specific Data |
From other sectors and processes |
Land Use and Smart Growth |
Land use strategies incorporated into the adopted plan (where applicable) | Information about major assumptions made in the land use planning process in terms of constraints that need to be considered |
Data or analyses from land use planning that supports individual strategies |
Air Quality Conformity |
Air quality data or information |
Data or analyses from air quality planning that supports individual strategies |
Natural Environment and the IEF |
Map of conservation, restoration and enhancement priorities |
Data or analyses from natural environment planning that supports individual strategies |
Capital Improvement |
Data or analyses from capital improvement planning that supports individual strategies |
Safety and Security |
Safety / Security goals, strategies, and objectives (where available) |
Data or analyses from safety and security planning that supports individual strategies |
Human Environment |
Community / human environment goals, strategies, and objectives |
Data or analyses from human environment planning that supports individual strategies |
Economic Development |
Data on the potential economic development outcomes for various strategies. |
Greenhouse Gas |
List of potential strategies that provide GHG reduction benefits Analysis results to support effective review of individual and packaged transportation strategies GHG inventory and forecast method |
From the transportation technical process supporting this key decision |
No Specific Data | |
From stakeholder collaboration |
Public involvement data / stakeholder input | |
Interests of individual jurisdictions, stakeholders, or partners | ||
From public private partnership |
No Specific Data | |
The following is a list of data needed to support the key decision. Practitioners collect this information for decision makers to consider. You may add to this list using the comment box at the bottom of the page. Supporting Tools and Technology | |
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None. | |
Key Decision Relationship to Other Topics | |||
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| Performance Measures |
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| Public-Private Partnerships |
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