Transcript The TLA Version - Virginia Transit Association

Bringing Transit Planning
To The MPO Planning
Table
May 21, 2008
Daniel Rudge – Chief of Planning
Virginia Department of Rail and
Public Transportation
www.drpt.virginia.gov
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What Will We Cover?
 Constrained Long Range Plan (CLRP)
 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
 Congestion Management Process (CMP)
 The unique Virginia structure
 Important Virginia documents
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 DRPT’s response
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The Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan
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 Your MPO’s Guidebook
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Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
– Must be prepared and updated every four years if in nonattainment or maintenance area for air quality, otherwise
every five years
– Update process can begin as early as one month after CLRP
is formally adopted and take the full four-five years to
complete! (Most try to do it in two years or less)
– Forecast period is 20 years (including transportation network
projects, cost estimates and estimation of readily available
funds)
– Some FTA representatives want a continuous 20-year plan
horizon, others just a 20-year forecast period
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 Federal Requirements
Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
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– Must consider all modes of transportation
– Must follow 3C process (Continuing, Cooperating and
Comprehensive)
– Must address eight planning factors
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Eight Planning Factors
 Support economic vitality
 Increase safety
 Increase security
 Increase accessibility for people and goods
 Protect and enhance environment
 Enhance connectivity across modes
transportation network
 Emphasize existing system preservation
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 Promote efficient operation of existing
Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
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State and local growth management
Economic Development
Natural resources
Air quality boards
Environmental protection
Conservation
Historic Preservation
All transportation mode providers
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– Must consult with following agencies:
Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
– Must identify all transportation facilities
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Major roadways
Transit
Intermodal
Multimodal
Alternative/CHOICE/SMART transportation
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– Emphasis on facilities that serve important national and
regional transportation functions
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Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
• Demonstrates how adopted plan can be implemented (estimate
readily available funds)
• All public and private funding sources identified
• Recommend additional funding strategies
• May be required to fall into specific time bands
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– A discussion of potential environmental mitigation activities
and impacted areas and activities that can best restore and
maintain these areas
– A financial plan (Developed with State)
Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
– Operational and management strategies that improve the
performance of existing facilities while relieving congestion
and improving safety for people and freight
– Capital investment strategies to
• Preserve existing infrastructure
• Provide for multimodal capacity increases based on regional
priorities and needs
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– Transportation and transit enhancements
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Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
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– Comparison of transportation plan with State conservation
plans/maps
– Comparison of plans to inventories of natural and historic
resources
– In non-attainment areas, must coordinate with Clean Air Act
agencies to develop transportation control measures for
inclusion in the Statewide Improvement Program
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Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
 Key Things To Remember
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– All MPO plans, programs and activities must be consistent with
the Long-Range Plan
– Most MPOs have weak transit sections
– DRPT is reviewing transit agency and MPO plan consistency
– In non-attainment areas transit agencies play a vital role in
ensuring the plan meets Clean Air Act requirements
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The Transportation
Improvement Program (TIP)
 Where your tax dollars go to make
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transportation improvements
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Transportation Improvement
Program (TIP)
 Programs federal, state and local dollars for specific
transportation projects in region
 Similar to City or County Capital Improvement
Program
 Broken down by mode
Airport
Highways
Transit
Freight
Enhancements
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Transportation Improvement
Program (TIP)
 Federal Requirements
– Develop the project list in cooperation with VDRPT, VDOT
and affected transit operators
– Develop funding estimates in consultation with VDRPT,
VDOT and transit agencies
• Funding estimates must be based on reasonably expected
funds (usually historic availability of such funds must be
documented)
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– Must be updated every four years
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Transportation Improvement
Program (TIP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
• A priority list of proposed federally supported projects/programs
and strategies to be carried out within each four year period
• A financial plan that demonstrates implementation, funding
resources to support projects and innovative financing
techniques
• Descriptions to identify projects and phases
• Regionally significant projects identified individually
• Other projects may be grouped and shown as one line item
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– The TIP will include:
Transportation Improvement
Program (TIP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
• Must be consistent with the Constrained Long-Range
Transportation Plan (CLRP)
• Some TIP projects/programs are not on a constrained project
list contained in the CLRP, but may just be included by
reference in a long-range plan.
• May contain an illustrative list of additional projects that could
be implemented if additional funds become available
• Must follow same public involvement process as the CLRP
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– The TIP:
Transportation Improvement
Program (TIP)
 Federal Requirements (Continued)
– The TIP:
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• Must be consistent with Six-Year Improvement Program if state
funds are being used
• Is submitted to State and FHWA and FTA for approval
• FHWA and FTA ensure that all projects and programs included
in the TIP are consistent with the Statewide Transportation
Improvement Program (STIP)
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Transportation Improvement
Program (TIP)
– The TIP is done every four years, so if you want a project
funded by an MPO you must have it ready up to four years in
advance!
– Several MPOs update TIPs annually
– TIP cycle usually begins in April and TIP is approved in
August
– It takes effect October 1 of each calendar year
– How to coordinate state fiscal year operating – July 1?
– Typically, CMAQ and enhancement projects are selected
every year or every other year
– For MPOs under 200,000 population, project selection is
done by State not MPO (except in Virginia where MPOs over
200,000 are treated like small MPOs in other states)
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 Key Things To Remember
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Distinguishing Between
Large and Small MPOs
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Two “Kinds” of MPOs
 Those that serve areas with a population
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between 50,000 and 199,999
 Those serving populations 200,000 or
greater are referred to as Transportation
Management Areas or TMAs
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Additional Requirements for TMAs
 Must prepare a Congestion Management
– Provides framework for effective management
and operation of the transportation network by
addressing specific recurring and non-recurring
(accidents and special events) congestion
– Transit and TDM strategies are typically part of a
CMP process, but because there are few transit
advocates at the table, the selected strategies
focus on things like HOV/HOT lanes or road
construction operational improvements (left turn
lanes, signal timing improvements, etc.)
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Process (CMP) document
Congestion Management Process (CMP)
 Be very careful because the Federal definition of a
CMP is what we have just discussed
 In Northern Virginia, a CMP is a locally developed
plan to address traffic congestion as part of a major
construction/reconstruction project
– Because of the confusion, Virginia now calls them
Transportation Management Plans
transit behavior, you need to work with your MPO to
update your models
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 Because traffic models have difficulties predicting
Congestion Management Process (CMP)
the TIP
 Data analysis and monitoring activities may require
that the long-range plan be modified
 In non-attainment areas, federal funds may not be
used for highway projects that will result in an
increase of carrying capacity for the single occupant
vehicle unless the project is addressed in the CMP
process!!!
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 Projects identified in the CMP must then be placed in
The State v. MPO Power Struggle
 Many States did not quickly conform to the original
ISTEA
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– Early 90’s many Highway Departments became
Transportation Departments
– The focus of the new Transportation Department still was on
highways
– Transit and TDM were seen as projects that could take
money away from road construction
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The State v. MPO Power Struggle
 With passage of TEA-21, Congress began to shift
much of DOT power to large MPOs but did not
provide much relief for small MPOs
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– SAFETEA-LU maintains this dichotomy as the state selects
all projects for inclusion in the TIP in consultation with small
MPOs
– SAFETEA-LU allows large MPOs to select projects for
inclusion in the TIP (except Interstate and NHS) after
consulting with State (does not include Virginia!)
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Virginia’s Structure
highway funding categories (Interstate,
NHS, Surface Transportation Program
(STP), CMAQ, Safety, Highway Bridge and
Rehabilitation Program)
 Virginia DOT co-mingles all of those funds,
adds state funds and creates Interstate,
Primary, Secondary, Urban, Regional
Surface Transportation Program (RSTP)
and CMAQ categories
 Transit funds stay the same as FTA
categories (all the 53XX categories)
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 Federal legislation creates six major
Virginia’s Structure
 NHS and STP funds can be used for a wide variety of
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transportation projects, including transit and TDM
 Transit programs and activities can use primary,
secondary, and urban funds, in addition to RSTP and
CMAQ
 While RSTP funds remain a good option in theory,
many MPOs are using all of their RSTP funds to cover
cost overruns in road projects or are using them to
address declining revenue
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Virginia’s Structure
 In general, CMAQ and RSTP funds are allocated by
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the MPOs and approved by the CTB
 All others category allocations are determined by
Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) in the
SYIP
 Some projects approved by CTB and included in the
SYIP initially are not in the local TIP or the CLRP or
the STIP
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Virginia Planning Documents
 We have three similar documents
– Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)
– Six-Year Improvement Plan (SYIP)
– State Implementation Plan (SIP)
 STIP and SIP are subject to FHWA, FTA and EPA
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approval
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SYIP
 Six-Year Improvement Plan (SYIP)
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– The SYIP is an “allocation-based” document
– It specifies which projects the CTB would intends to fund
over the next six years with federal and state funds
– The SYIP is a state requirement and the official allocation
document for the Commonwealth of Virginia
– The CTB holds public hearings in the fall and spring to get
input from citizens, local elected officials and MPOs on what
projects they would like to see added to the SYIP
– Adopted in June to coincide with state fiscal year
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STIP
 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program
– Documents how Virginia will obligate its share of federal
funds
– The STIP is comprised of all the MPO TIPs as well as
projects with federal funds for the rest of the state
– The STIP covers four years
– The STIP must conform to the SIP by demonstrating that all
nonattainment and maintenance area TIPs conform
– MPO TIP amendments must be reflected in the STIP and
STIP amendments must be reflected in MPO TIPs – the two
must match
– All federal funds are shown in the STIP
– Regionally significant projects (for air quality purposes) must
be included in TIPs in nonattainment and maintenance areas
and the STIP
– The STIP follows the federal fiscal year (October 1) because
it is a federal funding document
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(STIP)
SIP
– The SIP is an air quality document
– Includes an emissions “budget” for various pollutants and
sources, including mobile sources, point sources, etc.
– Nonattainment and maintenance area emissions budgets
are part of the SIP and conformity must be demonstrated to
these budgets for CLRPs and TIPs
– MPO’s demonstrate conformity of their CLRPs and TIPs
(with assistance from VDOT and VDEQ)
– Conforming TIPs are included in the STIP so that a
conforming STIP can be submitted to FHWA
– FHWA cannot approve a STIP that includes a nonconforming TIP
– The SIP does not include transportation funding or projects
– Updated when new standards are imposed by EPA
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 State Improvement Plan (SIP)
DRPT Response
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meetings
MPO and Transit Plan Consistency Task
Order
Grantee Handbook
Service Design Guidelines
Asset Management System
Performance Review Program
Better Technical Assistance and
ADVOCACY
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 DRPT staff attendance at all MPO TAC
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Are There Any
Questions?
www.drpt.virginia.gov
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