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From page 4...
... 4 Factors Influencing Airports and Public Planning Agencies as Part of Surface Transportation Planning Effective collaboration often depends on the institutional relationships, agency mandates, enabling legislation, and staff capability of those participating in a collaboration. It is thus important to understand some of the differences between airport organizations and regional/ local planning agencies in order to understand potential factors that motivate organizational behavior.
From page 5...
... Factors Influencing Airports and Public Planning Agencies as Part of Surface Transportation Planning 5 of a transportation system, their primary concern relates to how to make the airport more efficient and attractive to its users (see the "Conflicts Between Transit Access Construction and Airport Terminal Rebuilding: Salt Lake City International Airport" text box)
From page 6...
... 6 Guidebook for Assessing Collaborative Planning Efforts Among Airport and Public Planning Agencies 2.2 Decision-Making Structure and Governance The planning process is influenced by the structure of an organization, how decisions are made within that organization, and the institutional relationships among organizations when joint decision making is to occur (Table 2)
From page 7...
... Factors Influencing Airports and Public Planning Agencies as Part of Surface Transportation Planning 7 Efficiency of Governance Models to Guarantee Metropolitan Planning Organization/ Airport Authority Collaboration: Minneapolis–St. Paul Several institutional mechanisms guarantee communication and collaboration between the MPO and the airport authority in the Twin Cities.
From page 8...
... 8 Guidebook for Assessing Collaborative Planning Efforts Among Airport and Public Planning Agencies Airports MPOs and Other Surface Transportation Planning Agencies Federal Authority: U.S. Department of Transportation: FAA Federal Authority: U.S.
From page 9...
... Factors Influencing Airports and Public Planning Agencies as Part of Surface Transportation Planning 9 2.4 Financing and Funding Among the most important influences on transportation planning are the laws and regulations defining project eligibility for funding and, in the case of bonding, the requirements related to bond terms. For example, one of the major justifications for a federally required transportation planning process is that it must lead to a transportation improvement program (TIP)
From page 10...
... 10 Guidebook for Assessing Collaborative Planning Efforts Among Airport and Public Planning Agencies Airports Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Other Surface Transportation Planning Agencies Federal Legislation Airports need to comply with grant assurances when receiving federal funds. Grant assurances include contractual language based on statute.
From page 11...
... Factors Influencing Airports and Public Planning Agencies as Part of Surface Transportation Planning 11 2.5 Planning Processes Federally supported (and, in most cases, state-supported) transportation planning is accompanied by requirements on what documents must be produced, what factors should be considered in producing these documents, and (often)
From page 12...
... 12 Guidebook for Assessing Collaborative Planning Efforts Among Airport and Public Planning Agencies Airports Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Other Surface Transportation Planning Agencies Federal Mandates* Airport Layout Plans: Any Airport Improvement Program–eligible project that an airport sponsor wishes to receive federal funding for must be shown on an FAAapproved Airport Layout Plan.
From page 13...
... Factors Influencing Airports and Public Planning Agencies as Part of Surface Transportation Planning 13 Airports Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Other Surface Transportation Planning Agencies Funding: Limited funding resources for airside, landside, and (particularly) ground-access projects Funding: Limited funding resources for the needs expressed as part of the transportation planning process Potential Diverging Views: Airlines have a say on investment projects (including access)

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