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20 A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning
Project and Corridor Investment Program
Step Reason
Given the limited amount of funding to meet all of
the state transportation needs, some form of project
23. Establish common
prioritization must occur. Project priorities can be
approaches or methods
established in many ways. This step will establish
for assigning project
consistency in the ways that priorities are assigned
priorities.
and used in the process of defining a corridor
investment program.
Given that a range of corridor strategies will be
considered and possibly recommended as part of
24. Develop templates that the corridor study, the state DOT should provide
provide information on information on the feasibility of different financing
the feasibility of strategies for transportation investments. For
different financial example, the characteristics of successful public-
strategies for corridor private partnerships (PPPs) and the types of
investment. projects for which they are applicable should be
part of the information available to corridor
decisionmakers.
This step will define the format and content of the
25. Establish a common
information that is reported to the state DOT for
reporting format to the
projects that are state funded. This format could be
state DOT on the
structured by project category (e.g., capacity
results of the corridor
expansion, safety, public transit, etc.) or by overall
study or analysis.
priority (No. 1 project, No. 2 project, etc.).
Identify Statewide Investment Program
and System Management Strategy
Step Reason
This step establishes the process for using different
corridor study input to define the fiscally
26. Establish a process for constrained statewide investment program or the
using information statewide transportation plan. This could entail
from corridor analysis process guidance on internal DOT organizational
for the statewide plan responsibilities as well as technical guidance on
update and for STIP how corridor study information will be used. It is
development. likely that the results of the corridor studies will be
only part of the information that will be used to
develop a statewide investment program.
Corridor studies could recommend actions other
27. Establish a process for
than implementing projects. For example, a study
considering non-
might recommend the use of access management
investment strategies
policies to preserve highway capacity or the
within the context of a
adoption by local governments of smart-growth
statewide
principles to control development. These strategies
transportation plan or
should be considered as part of statewide
adopted state DOT
transportation policy development, and this step
policies.
provides a path for this to occur.
28. Monitor the ongoing To be effective, the SWCP process needs to be
SWCP process and flexible in responding to the changing needs of the
modify it as needed. state; thus, the state DOT should regularly assess
the effectiveness of the SWCP process and modify
it when and where appropriate. It seems likely that
state DOT officials will identify areas in the SWCP
process where continuing improvements can be
made.
