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activities affected by transportation including planned Regional Visioning and Freight
growth, economic development, environmental protection,
airport operations, and freight movement. Regions, according to Seltzer and Carbonell (2011) are
· Safety and security of the transportation system are now
territories defined primarily by function and only rarely by
jurisdiction. Regional planning is the development of plans
separate planning factors that are to be considered during
and programs by communities and institutions working
the metropolitan planning process.
collaboratively to address issues that affect their shared geo-
graphic territories. Figure 6-4 shows the identified mega
SAFETEA-LU also added specific programs targeted at
regions in the United States. With the likely emergence of
freight, which included
freight megaregions that do not respect state or even national
boundaries, a new planning dialogue is required to prepare
· A truck-parking facilities pilot program, for the next-generation freight system to support these regions.
· A highway-railroad crossing safety improvement funding Planning decisions made over the next decade will be critical
program, to our future transportation system efficiencies and regional
· Allowance to construct truck-idling reduction facilities on competitiveness. Local and regional freight planning in this
Interstate highway rights-of-way, context will require highly skilled freight transportation plan-
· A highway bridge funding program, ners and new strategies and tools, community support, and
· A new program for research, training, and education to legislative authority.
support freight transportation planning, and Strategic visioning is an emerging approach to problem
· A freight intermodal distribution pilot program--which solving that is being applied in major metropolitan regions
gave grants to facilitate intermodal freight transportation across the country. Examples are California DOT's Regional
initiatives at the state and local level for the relief of con- Blueprints and the Chicago Metropolis 2020's reports on devel-
gestion and to improve safety and provide capital funding opment and transportation. Strategic visioning recognizes that
to address infrastructure and freight distribution needs at today's urban challenges have natural or economic boundaries
inland ports and intermodal freight facilities. (e.g., air sheds, watersheds, commuter sheds, and commerce
Figure 6-4. Identified megaregions in the United States (America 2050 2010).
