Transcript Livability and Sustainablity - Michigan Transportation Planning

Jim Thorne
FHWA - Resource Center
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The Sustainable Communities Partnership and
Livability Principles
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Livability and the Planning Process
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Livability Examples and Resources
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Sustainability
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Livability/Sustainability: where and how
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DOT, EPA, HUD
Improve access to affordable housing, provide
more transportation options and lower
transportation costs while protecting the
environment
Encourages livability principles to be
incorporated into federal programs and funding.
Achieve our economic, social, and
environmental goals most effectively when we
work on them together.
Partnership Livability Principles
Transportation Choices
Housing Choices
Economic Competitiveness
Support Existing Communities
Align Federal Policies
Value Communities
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Targeting resources through grants and other
programs to help states and communities create
jobs and stronger economies by developing more
sustainably.
Removing regulatory and policy barriers at the
federal level to make it easier for state and local
governments to access federal services and
resources.
Aligning agency priorities and embedding the
Livability Principles in each agency’s actions so
that transportation, housing, and environmental
protection efforts are coordinated.
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Transportation Investment Generating Economic
Recovery (TIGER) Grants
Joint DOT TIGER II-HUD Community Challenge Grants
HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning
Grants
Funds for Urban Circulator and Bus & Bus Livability
Projects
State Revolving Funds for Water Infrastructure
Smart Growth Implementation Assistance
Greening America’s Capitals
HUD Adoption of Sustainability Criteria in Scoring
Grant Applications
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Executive Order on Federal Leadership in
Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance
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Brownfields Policy Change
Brownfields Pilot Communities
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Initiative
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Policy Statement on Bicycle and Pedestrian
Accommodation Regulations and Recommendations
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Reducing Contracting Conflicts
Change to Federal Transit Administration’s New
Starts Program
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Coordinating Policies and Funding Programs
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HUD Office of Sustainable Housing and
Communities
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EPA Office of Sustainable Communities
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Regional Partnerships
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Broaden Partnership
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Continue examining and, if necessary, modifying
federal policies and actions on transportation,
housing, and environmental protection to
complement each other and to better reflect the
Livability Principles.
Using the quality, location and type of
transportation facilities and services to
help achieve broader community goals
such as access to good jobs, affordable
housing, quality schools, and safe streets
Livability, sustainability, smart growth,
walkable communities, new urbanism,
healthy neighborhoods, active living, transit
oriented development, complete streets,
Sustainawalkabilitism . . .
www.wordle.net/
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Support economic vitality
Increase safety
Increase security
Increase accessibility and mobility
Protect and enhance the environment
Enhance connectivity across and between
modes
Promote efficient system management and
operation
Preserve the existing transportation
system.
(E) protect and enhance the environment,
promote energy conservation, improve
the quality of life,
and promote consistency between
transportation improvements and
State and local planned growth and
economic development patterns;
More efficient use of resources
Increase accessibility
Improve connections and
options
Reduce energy use
Environmental benefits
Health and Social benefits
Livable Communities are where people have access to
many different forms of transportation and affordable
housing…..”
U.S. DOT Secretary, Ray LaHood
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Goals, performance measures, policies related to
livability, quality of life, . . .
Help region develop vision related to community
growth and development.
Reach beyond usual groups to housing, public
health, water resources, . . .
Land use and transportation integration.
Multi-modal planning.
Interdisciplinary efforts.
CSS in regional, corridor, project planning.
Options and approaches vary.
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Connected streets
Complete streets
Pedestrian facilities
Bicycle planning
Scenario planning
Land Use/Transportation integration
Safe Routes to School
Transit supportive land use
Multi-modal planning
Context Sensitive Solutions
Management and Operations
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Safety
Accessibility
Integrated planning
Public Engagement
Freight
Corridor planning
GHG emission reduction
Public health
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Opportunities to Address Climate Change
Planning for:
◦ Grid street patterns, short blocks,
streetscapes
◦ Transit and transit supportive
land use
◦ Planning for bike and pedestrian
travel
◦ Land use (as it supports
transportation and vice versa)
◦ System efficiencies
◦ Travel Demand Management
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Goal Driven
Community engagement and outreach
Place Based
Context Sensitive
Recognizes existing values and assets
Interdisciplinary
Comprehensive
Explores inter-relationships of key elements
Collaborative
Public and decision maker understanding that
land use and transportation are intertwined.
 Livability Goals and Performance Measures.
 Safe, connected, multimodal roadway
networks.
 Plans, programs and projects support
broader community goals.
 Interdisciplinary approach: partners and
efforts that support range of community
goals.
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Atlanta, GA—Livable Centers Initiative (LCI)
◦ LCI program initiated in 1999 to better link transportation and
land use planning with long-term goals of VMT and
congestion reduction and improved air quality.
◦ Awards grants to prepare plans to enhance existing centers
and corridors.
◦ More than 100 studies had been completed, representing
nearly $9 million in planning assistance funding.
Chattanooga, TN
Riverfront Parkway Transportation and Urban
Design Plan
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Converted the Riverfront Parkway from a four-lane,
limited-access expressway to an urban surface street.
Three primary objectives guided the design:
◦ Better vehicular and pedestrian connections to downtown,
◦ Improving riverfront area
◦ Capacity that better matched expected traffic volumes.
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The project has improved access, commuting patterns,
and renewed economic viability for the eastern portion of
downtown.
Chattanooga, TN
Riverfront Parkway Transportation and Urban
Design Plan
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transportation
project is an opportunity
to improve the quality of
life in a community.
Rural Communities
1) Support the rural
landscape
2) Help existing
places thrive
3) Create great new
places
icma.org
• Set Regional Framework
• Improve Local Accessibility
• Enhance Community Design
www.trb.org
PennDOT’s Smart Transportation Guidebook
“Smart Transportation
is a collaborative
approach to
supporting great
communities for
future generations of
Pennsylvanians.”
www.smart-transportation.com
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– it’s
been either urban or
rural
Land use context –
land area comprising
unique combination of
land uses, density,
building form
Common place types
found in every
PennDOT district
RURAL
SUBURBAN
CORRIDOR
SUBURBAN
CENTER
SUBURBAN
NEIGHBORHOOD
TOWN / VILLAGE
CENTER
TOWN / VILLAGE
NEIGHBORHOOD
URBAN
CORE
Capital District
Transportation
Committee –
Albany, NY MPO
www.cdtcmpo.org/linkage.htm
Collaborative
 Interdisciplinary
 Involves all stakeholders
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Results in facility that complements;
Physical setting, and
Preserves scenic, aesthetic, and historic and
environmental resources, while
Maintaining safety and mobility
www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/csd.htm
Pedestrian and Bicycle Enhancements
• Bike Lanes
• Recreational multi-use trails
• Pedestrian refuge islands,
sidewalks, countdown signals
Series of urban and rural case studies and strategies
that facilitate:
•Revitalizing rural small towns
•Better connecting downtowns with neighborhoods
•Completing street networks
•Supporting compact, mixed use development
•Maximize efficiency of existing transportation
infrastructure
•Mitigate impacts of climate change
•Preserve natural and cultural resources
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Livability Guidebook
Livability Implementation Research Paper
5 Regional workshops with key stakeholders to
identify opportunities and obstacles.
◦ Locations—Sacramento, CA; Denver, CO; Kansas
City, MO; Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA
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National Association of Development
Organizations Peer Exchanges that focused on
Rural Livability.
◦ GA, NC and CA
Livability Performance Measures
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TIGER 3
◦ NOFA
◦ Open until October
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FTA
◦ Bus Livability Grants
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HUD
◦ Capacity Building NOFA
◦ Second Round of Sustainable Communities Regional
Planning Grants
◦ NOFA
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EPA
◦ Greening America’s Capitals
◦ Smart Growth Technical Assistance
www.sustainablecommunities.gov
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Atlanta Regional Commission – Atlanta, GA
Capital District Transportation Committee (CDTC) –
Albany, NY
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
(DVRPC) – Philadelphia, PA
Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG)
– Denver, CO
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) –
Oakland, CA
North Central Texas Council of Governments
(NCTCOG) – Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
Portland Metro (Metro) – Portland, OR
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Transportation and Land Use Integration
Transportation Planning Process
Programming and Project Prioritization
Funding
Project Implementation
Program Evaluation and Performance
Measures
Partnerships and Outreach
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Use scenario planning to engage the public in
conversations about transportation and land
use and inform updates to the long-range
transportation plan – ARC, CDTC, DRCOG,
MTC, NCTCOG
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Prepare a regional comprehensive plan in
conjunction with a long-range transportation
plan – ARC, DRCOG, DVRPC, Metro
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Integrate land use criteria into the TIP Process,
such as considering minimum zoning
requirements in the project evaluation and
selection criteria for TIP programming – CDTC,
DRCOG, MTC, NCTCOG
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Update the regional transportation demand
model to better address land use development
and associated travel behavior – ARC, DRCOG,
MTC, NCTCOG
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Pay staff or consultants to track and monitor
development or land values in the region to
identify opportunities for strategic transportation
investments – Metro, NCTCOG
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Provide design guidelines and information,
training or technical assistance on complete
streets – ARC, DVRPC, DRCOG, MTC,
NCTCOG
Sustainability - A set of environmental, economic and
social conditions in which all of society has the capacity and
opportunity to maintain and improve its quality of life indefinitely
without degrading the quantity, quality or the availability of
natural, economic and social resources (from American Society
of Civil Engineers)
Source: Transportation Planning and Sustainability Guidebook
FHWA, 2011
•Livability and sustainability promote environmentally sustainable travel
options, consideration of human health issues, social equity, and
economic development.
•Sustainability includes long term, multi-generational focus.
•Livability initiatives as a subset of sustainability; focused more on near
term planning, funding and implementation at the community level.
•Sustainability addresses larger environmental goals such as improving
air and water quality, reducing climate impacts, increasing energy
efficiency, and decreasing dependence on foreign oil.
•Livability may be less specific about larger environmental goals.
•Transportation solutions that support both are likely similar.
Examines how sustainability
considerations could be better
incorporated into transportation
planning through case studies
identified from a review of
sustainability planning practices
at State DOTs and from a
literature review of U.S. and
international practices.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/climate/sustainability/index.cfm
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FHWA encourages sustainable highway
practices throughout the project lifecycle:
◦ Planning
◦ Project Development
◦ Operations and Management
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FHWA is developing a Sustainable Highways
Tool in order to:
◦ Help agencies measure sustainability and quantify
tradeoffs
◦ Provide a framework for communicating with
stakeholders about sustainability
◦ Establish a method for evaluating sustainable
highways
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For sustainability to
be fully integrated
into highway and
transit programs, it
must be considered
throughout the
project lifecycle
Must address
sustainability from
planning through
operations
System
Planning &
Processes
Project
Development
Transportation
Systems
Management,
Operations &
Maintenance
System Planning
◦ Integrated Planning
◦ Mitigation banking
◦ Fiscal planning
Project Development
◦ Cost Benefit Analysis
◦ Construction Equipment
Emission Reduction
◦ Recycling and Reuse of
materials
Operations and
Maintenance
• Strong asset
management
• Roadside vegetation
management
◦ Self-evaluation tool to measure
sustainability over the life cycle
of a transportation project
◦ Collection of best practices
◦ Web-based
◦ Based on triple bottom line
 Environmental
 Economic
 Social
◦ Pilot Test Version
www.sustainablehighways.org
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Voluntary Web-based Tool
Lists “sustainable criteria” based on best
practices for three project phases:
◦ Systems Planning
◦ Project Development
◦ Operations and Maintenance
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Each criterion assigned a point value based on
expected sustainability impact
In coordination with ASCE effort
Other sustainable highways tools used as
references(GreenLITES, I-LAST, Greenroads)
www.sustainablehighways.org
Encourage sustainable highway practices
◦ Internal improvement
◦ External recognition
 Help agencies measure sustainability and
quantify tradeoffs
 Provide a framework for communicating
with stakeholders about sustainability
 Establish a method for evaluating
sustainable highways
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PD-1 Cost Benefit Analysis
PD-2 Highway and Traffic
Safety
PD-3 Context Sensitive Project
Development (or
equivalent)
PD-4 Lifecycle Cost Analysis
PD-5 Freight Mobility
PD-6 Educational Outreach
PD-7 Tracking Environmental
Commitments
PD-8 Habitat Restoration
PD-9 Stormwater
PD-10 Ecological Connectivity
PD-11 Recycle & Reuse
Materials
PD-12 Create Renewable
Energy
PD-13 Site Vegetation
PD-14 Pedestrian Access
PD-15 Bicycle Access
PD-16 Transit & HOV Access
PD-17 Historical,
Archaeological, and
Cultural Preservation
PD-18 Scenic, Natural, or
Recreational Qualities
PD-19 Low-Emitting Materials
PD-20 Energy Efficient Lighting
PD-21 ITS for System
Operations
PD-22 Long-Life Pavement
Design
PD-23 Reduced Energy and
Emissions in Pavement
Materials
PD-24 Contractor Warranty
PD-25 Earthwork Balance
PD-26 Construction
Environmental Training
PD-27 Construction Equipment
Emission Reduction
PD-28 Construction Noise
Mitigation
PD-29 Construction Quality Plan
PD-30 Construction Waste
Management
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Testing will be done on the Project
Development (PD), System Planning (SP) and
Operations & Maintenance (OM) criteria
Objectives for Conducting the Pilot Testing
◦ Provide input on how to make tool easier to use
◦ Obtain input on further refinement to criteria
◦ For calibration of scoring and achievement levels
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Schedule for Pilot Testing
◦ July thru October 2011
For Sustainable
Highways Program
 Continue strong
coordination within
FHWA and with
partners and
stakeholders
 Create program
structure, partner
on key
program/research
gaps
For INVEST
• Revise additional criteria
– Revise O&M criteria –
July
– Revise System Planning
criteria – August
• Pilot Testing
– Call for Pilot Projects
(PD criteria)– June
– Call for Pilot Programs
(SP & OM) – July
• Weighting & Scoring
Review - ongoing
• Updates to Website ongoing
• Version 1.0 Release –
December 31, 2011
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How do we incorporate livability and
sustainability into our planning?
What do you need to move forward
with livability and sustainability
initiatives?
“Trend Is Not Destiny”
Lewis Mumford
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Broaden Community Engagement
Livability Goals and Performance Measures
Integrate Land Use and Transportation Planning
Pursue Connected Street Networks
Improve Access Management Programs
Support Projects that Reconnect Communities
Develop Multimodal Projects
Advance Travel Demand Management and
Operational Strategies
Consider Freight Movement and Needs
Use CSS Approach: Planning, Project Development
Address Transportation Safety
Conduct Multimodal Corridor Planning