Articles by: Carrie Kissel
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Project Prioritization: Spotlight: Kentucky’s Regional Concept Plans
Through the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s contracts with each of the state’s 15 Area Development Districts, a Regional Concept Plan is developed to inventory significant facilities and traffic generators in the rural portions of the state. In addition to this descriptive...
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Project Prioritization: Spotlight: Virginia’s Statewide and Rural Long-range Plans
As part of the Virginia DOT’s work to complete the 2035 Transportation Plan, the agency added long-range planning as a new element in the rural transportation work programs of Virginia’s Planning District Commissions (the state’s regional development organizations). The regional...
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Regional Long-range Transportation Plans
The long-range transportation plan (LRTP) is a key document in guiding investment decisions and programming that occurs in regional or statewide transportation improvement programs (TIPs or STIPs). A requirement for states and MPOs, it is becoming more common for rural...
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Project Prioritization: Regional Transportation Planning Activities
RPOs conduct a variety of planning activities as part of their rural transportation work programs. Most of the regional planning activities consider multiple modes, with the most common modes being highways and bridges, bicycle and pedestrian transportation, and public and...
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Project Prioritization: Planning Tools and Techniques
Regional transportation decisionmaking can be aided by technology and information tools that enhance the planning process. Only 13 percent of respondents have access to a rural, regional travel demand model, while 73 percent do not, and another 13 percent do...
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Project Prioritization: Rural Transportation Leadership
Some organizations have committees that address rural transportation planning. The most common are technical committees (55 percent) and policy committees (53 percent). Other common committees include public transportation or human services transportation (transit) committees (30 percent), and bicycle/pedestrian or trails...
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Project Prioritization: RPO Characteristics
The NADO Research Foundation received responses from 184 organizations that conduct either small metropolitan or rural regional-level transportation planning. This included 180 responses from rural and small metropolitan RDOs located in 30 states, as well as responses from an additional...
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Project Prioritization: Introduction
In early 2011, the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation conducted a scan of regional planning and development organizations to determine common regional planning activities conducted in non-metropolitan and small metropolitan areas, as well as how rural regions...
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USDOT to Hold Environmental Justice Training
On Tuesday, July 17, the U.S. Department of Transportation will hold a one-day training event on Implementing Environmental Justice Strategies. This training is targeted to help transportation practitioners identify challenges and successes of applying environmental justice principles in a multi-modal...
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FHWA Freight Funding Opportunity
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released a request for applications (RFA) for the “Off Hours Freight Delivery Pilot Project,” which is directed at reducing congestion in small and medium-sized urban areas. A total of $450,000 in funding is available,...