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... A network performance approach can help to incorporate other major considerations, such as highway and transit operations, nonmotorized programs, land use policy decisions, and other nontraditional concerns. This scenario describes how MPOs can use network performance measurement to help define regional goals and the full range of strategies necessary to meet them.
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From page 9...
... typical MPO planning efforts. For example, a major multistrategy program CDTC undertakes is the Community and Transportation Linkage Planning Program.1 This unique planning process engages regional economic entities, environmental groups, business leaders, university administration, chambers of commerce, neighborhood associations, and regional community organizations.
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... The 2008 Hudson River Crossing study considered mobility, operational efficiency, and community in a study of the bridge systems along the Hudson River using travel model and microsimulation tools and suggested that the network of bridges did not need widening to meet the needs of the region's travelers. 10 SANDAG publishes an annual performance monitoring report for its Regional Comprehensive Plan each year.
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... • Dislocation of existing residences and businesses • Amount of open space • Community quality-of-life factors that reflect community quality of life in the central cities, inner suburbs, outer suburbs, small cities and villages, and rural areas Environmental • Number of major environmental issues to be resolved to implement existing commitments Economic • How does the transportation system support the economic health of the region? Source: CDTC Congestion Management Process, 2007.
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... The Regional Operations Committee is using these performance measures to help CDTC evaluate the performance of its ITS, incident management systems, and operations systems. CDTC maintains significant transportation system performance data, including biennial data for nonstate federalaid system facilities, quadrennial sample data for local roads, supplemental data for all Albany county and city roads, and data for transit system infrastructure age, facilities, ITS, signal systems, sidewalk inventories, Thruway, and operations and maintenance systems.
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Key Terms

  • regional goals
  • capital district
  • twin cities
  • core performance
  • performance requires

  • travel time
  • travel times
  • congestion management
  • york state
  • public opinion

  • transportation planning
  • regional comprehensive
  • define regional
  • improve network
  • transportation linkage

  • transportation compatibility
  • linkage planning
  • community goals
  • travel model
  • planning time

  • cdtc maintains
  • transit operations
  • management process
  • data mapping
  • critical congestion

  • traditional mpo
  • compatibility index
  • hudson river
  • time index
  • measurement framework


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