A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Content The SWCP Guidebook provides practitioner's with • Reasons why statewide corridor planning is an approach that has proven useful to transportation planners; • A framework for conducting statewide corridor planning; • Technical guidance on the activities that transportation planners can follow to develop an SWCP approach to statewide transportation planning; • An application of technical guidance in a hypothetical state; • A list of useful references; • Examples from state DOTs of how key steps of the planning process have been implemented; and • Additional technical guidance on incorporating corridor analysis, public transportation, freight transportation, economic development, and travel demand modeling into the SWCP process. SWCP Process A corridor planning approach is a departure from a systems-wide or project-based approach used by many states.
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The most important section of the Guidebook is the technical guidance on these steps in the SWCP process, which uses a "checklist" matrix of tasks within each step and the reasons and methods for each of the tasks. Special Emphasis Areas There are a number of "special emphasis" areas that should always be considered during the statewide planning process: • Comparisons between modes within corridors; • The eight federal planning factors; • Land use; • Urban design; • Economic development; • Consistency with local or regional planning agencies; • Consistency with other planning by other state agencies; • Freight movement; • Public transportation; • Traffic operations; • Safety; • Linking National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
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Benefits Based on state DOT surveys and case studies, the following have been identified as the primary benefits of a corridor-based statewide planning process as compared with a systemswide or project-based planning process: • A more direct connection between the movement of people and goods and state-significant economic activity; • The ability to more closely examine the trade-offs among different modes; • A higher precision in monitoring the performance of transportation facilities and services; • A more complete investigation of non-transportation strategies for addressing transportation challenges; • A focus of multi-state efforts at improving transportation capabilities across boundaries; • Familiarity to planning agency partners since corridor planning is already used in MPOs; and • Greater engagement in planning by local officials and other stakeholders because of their ability to better relate to the issues being faced. Challenges Challenges identified with the SWCP process, and statewide planning in general, include the following: • How can information generated from individual corridor analyses be consolidated to develop a comprehensive statewide investment program and action plan?
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