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TRANSPORTAT ION RESEARCH BOARD WASHINGTON, D.C. 2010 www.TRB.org N A T I O N A L C O O P E R A T I V E H I G H W A Y R E S E A R C H P R O G R A M NCHRP REPORT 661 Subscriber Categories Highways • Planning and Forecasting • Environment A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning John L. Carr Carl D. Dixon WILBUR SMITH ASSOCIATES Lexington, KY A N D Michael Meyer GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta, GA Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration

NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly complex problems of wide interest to highway authorities. These problems are best studied through a coordinated program of cooperative research. In recognition of these needs, the highway administrators of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials initiated in 1962 an objective national highway research program employing modern scientific techniques. This program is supported on a continuing basis by funds from participating member states of the Association and it receives the full cooperation and support of the Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies was requested by the Association to administer the research program because of the Board’s recognized objectivity and understanding of modern research practices. The Board is uniquely suited for this purpose as it maintains an extensive committee structure from which authorities on any highway transportation subject may be drawn; it possesses avenues of communications and cooperation with federal, state and local governmental agencies, universities, and industry; its relationship to the National Research Council is an insurance of objectivity; it maintains a full-time research correlation staff of specialists in highway transportation matters to bring the findings of research directly to those who are in a position to use them. The program is developed on the basis of research needs identified by chief administrators of the highway and transportation departments and by committees of AASHTO. Each year, specific areas of research needs to be included in the program are proposed to the National Research Council and the Board by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Research projects to fulfill these needs are defined by the Board, and qualified research agencies are selected from those that have submitted proposals. Administration and surveillance of research contracts are the responsibilities of the National Research Council and the Transportation Research Board. The needs for highway research are many, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program can make significant contributions to the solution of highway transportation problems of mutual concern to many responsible groups. The program, however, is intended to complement rather than to substitute for or duplicate other highway research programs. Published reports of the NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM are available from: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 and can be ordered through the Internet at: http://www.national-academies.org/trb/bookstore Printed in the United States of America NCHRP REPORT 661 Project 8-58 ISSN 0077-5614 ISBN 978-0-309-15479-6 Library of Congress Control Number 2010929232 © 2010 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Authors herein are responsible for the authenticity of their materials and for obtaining written permissions from publishers or persons who own the copyright to any previously published or copyrighted material used herein. Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) grants permission to reproduce material in this publication for classroom and not-for-profit purposes. Permission is given with the understanding that none of the material will be used to imply TRB, AASHTO, FAA, FHWA, FMCSA, FTA, or Transit Development Corporation endorsement of a particular product, method, or practice. It is expected that those reproducing the material in this document for educational and not-for-profit uses will give appropriate acknowledgment of the source of any reprinted or reproduced material. For other uses of the material, request permission from CRP. NOTICE The project that is the subject of this report was a part of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, conducted by the Transportation Research Board with the approval of the Governing Board of the National Research Council. The members of the technical panel selected to monitor this project and to review this report were chosen for their special competencies and with regard for appropriate balance. The report was reviewed by the technical panel and accepted for publication according to procedures established and overseen by the Transportation Research Board and approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council. The opinions and conclusions expressed or implied in this report are those of the researchers who performed the research and are not necessarily those of the Transportation Research Board, the National Research Council, or the program sponsors. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, the National Research Council, and the sponsors of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program do not endorse products or manufacturers. Trade or manufacturers’ names appear herein solely because they are considered essential to the object of the report.

CRP STAFF FOR NCHRP REPORT 661 Christopher W. Jenks, Director, Cooperative Research Programs Crawford F. Jencks, Deputy Director, Cooperative Research Programs Lori L. Sundstrom, Senior Program Officer Megan A. Chamberlain, Senior Program Assistant Eileen P. Delaney, Director of Publications Andréa Briere Editor NCHRP PROJECT 8-58 PANEL Field of Transportation Planning—Area of Forecasting George Gerstle, Boulder County, CO (Chair) Sandra K. Beaupre, Wisconsin DOT, Madison Arnold R. Burnham, Arizona DOT, Phoenix Kenneth A. Carlson, New York State DOT, Albany Barbara K. Fraser, Oregon DOT, Salem Jack Kinstlinger, KCI Technologies, Inc., Sparks, MD Jerome M. Lutin, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark Craig B. Newell, Michigan DOT, Lansing Robert A. Gorman, FHWA Liaison Kimberly Fisher, TRB Liaison C O O P E R A T I V E R E S E A R C H P R O G R A M S AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NCHRP Project 8-58 was performed by Wilbur Smith Associates (WSA) as the primary contractor in collaboration with Michael Meyer, Ph.D., P.E., of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Principal Investigator for WSA was John L. Carr, P.E., and the Deputy Project Manager was Carl D. Dixon, P.E. of WSA’s Lexington, Kentucky, office. Other contributors from various WSA offices included Don Vary of the Falls Church, Virginia, office (statewide transportation planning); Rob Bostrom of Lexington, Kentucky, and Dave Powers of Columbia, South Carolina (travel demand modeling); Paula Dowell of Atlanta, Georgia (economics and freight); Tim Sorenson of Lexington, Kentucky (transit planning); Jeff Carroll of Columbia, South Carolina (liter- ature research); Abra Horne of Orlando, Florida, and Bob Hamm of Tallahassee, Florida (Florida statewide planning); Rebecca Ramsey of Lexington, Kentucky (survey research, literature research, case study research, and report preparation); and Amanda Spencer of Lexington, Kentucky (corridor plan- ning, statewide transportation planning, follow-up research, and report preparation). Special thanks are extended to the transportation agency participants who gave of their time to participate in interviews for the case study research. Those participants included George Gerstle, formerly with the Col- orado DOT (currently with the City of Boulder); Jerry Blair and Donna Day, East-West Gateway Council of Governments (St. Louis MPO); Bob Romig, David Lee, Ed Hutchinson, and Warren Merrell, Florida DOT; George Schoener, I-95 Corridor Coalition; Eryn Fletcher and Steve Smith, Indiana DOT; Calvin Leggett, David Wasserman, and Alpesh Patel, North Carolina DOT; and Bob Hannigan, Brian Wall, and Jeff Reid, Pennsyl- vania DOT. Thanks are also given to the staff from the 33 state DOTs who took the time to respond to our ini- tial survey; the staff from the state DOTs who participated in our practitioners outreach; and the staff mem- bers from state DOTs that provided updated and additional information during our follow-up research. Finally, WSA and Dr. Meyer wish to express our appreciation to the members of the NCHRP Project 8-58 Research Panel who provided valuable guidance, review, and input into this research project and its products.

This guidebook provides a template for corridor planning that will assist states to better understand the implications of transportation decisions on mobility, communities, eco- nomic development, and environmental stewardship. The template can be a useful tool to help states program funds to meet identified needs and priorities. It should be of immedi- ate use to transportation decision makers, managers, and planning practitioners involved in the preparation of statewide transportation plans and priority programs. Federal law (i.e., ISTEA, TEA-21 and SAFETEA-LU) requires states to develop long- range, statewide multimodal plans and priority programs. Some states have met this requirement by developing statewide policy plans while other states have developed statewide plans that result in lists of transportation projects. Without extensive detailed planning, neither policy plans nor project-specific plans contain a sufficient basis for deci- sion making and prioritization. Statewide corridor planning can be an effective method to (1) understand the relation- ship between modes of transportation, (2) evaluate transportation system performance, (3) generate innovative solutions to transportation problems, and (4) aid in preparing an effec- tive statewide transportation plan. It can serve as the link between broad policies and strate- gies that serve as the foundation of many statewide transportation plans and the evaluation of needs and performance expectations that can guide development of priority programs. Statewide corridor planning can also serve as a mechanism for prioritizing the implemen- tation of project-specific plans by linking long-range transportation plans to shorter-term state transportation improvement programs. Under NCHRP Project 08-58, Wilbur Smith Associates was asked to develop a concep- tual multimodal statewide corridor planning process and describe how it relates to other planning and programming activities (e.g., strategic planning, long-range transportation planning, metropolitan planning organization (MPO) planning, priority programming, and project development). To meet the project objectives, the research team conducted a literature review, identified applicable federal requirements and guidance, undertook sur- veys and case study research to further examine the current state of the practice, identified effective approaches and practices used by states and MPOs, and conducted a peer review of the draft guidebook to gather feedback on its content. The contractor’s project final report that contains the results of the literature review and the results of the outreach and case study efforts is available on the TRB project website. F O R E W O R D By Lori L. Sundstrom Senior Program Officer Transportation Research Board

1 Summary 4 Section 1 Guidebook Organization and Purpose 4 Background 5 Purpose 5 Overview 7 Section 2 Statewide Corridor Planning 7 Why Use an SWCP Process? 9 SWCP Framework 10 Establish Organizing Principles and Institutional Structure 11 Establish a Corridor Network 11 Identify Study Corridors 12 Conduct Corridor Studies 13 Identify Statewide Investment Program and System Management Strategy 14 Development of Technical Guidance 15 Section 3 Technical Guidance for SWCP 15 Establish Organizing Principles and Institutional Structure 16 Establish a Corridor Network 17 Identify Study Corridors 17 Conduct Corridor Studies (Elements Related to the SWCP Approach) 20 Identify Statewide Investment Program and System Management Strategy 21 Section 4 Hypothetical Example: Application of SWCP Guidance to the State of South Orange 21 SWCP in the State of South Orange 21 Establish Organizing Principles and Institutional Structure 24 Establish a Corridor Network 24 Identify Study Corridors 27 Conduct Corridor Studies (Elements Related to the SWCP Approach) 31 Identify Statewide Investment Program 33 Conclusion 34 Section 5 References 36 Appendix A Transportation Agency Examples of Corridor-Based Planning 49 Appendix B Levels of Corridor Analysis for Statewide Corridor Planning 51 Appendix C Analytical Tools for Corridor Analysis 57 Appendix D Public Transit in Statewide Corridor Planning C O N T E N T S

60 Appendix E Freight Transportation in Statewide Corridor Planning 65 Appendix F Economic Development in Statewide Corridor Planning

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