Regional Planning
Find tools to assist planners, economic development practitioners and those interested in sustainable development initiatives
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Project Prioritization: Case Study: North Carolina Develops Statewide Performance-based Prioritization Process
In 2009, under direction from the new governor, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) commenced efforts to launch the state’s strategic prioritization process. NCDOT’s Strategic Planning Offce of Transportation (SPOT) was charged with developing a data-driven, transparent process. The...
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Project Prioritization: Statewide and Regional Transportation Improvement Programs
Of responding organizations who perform transportation activities in rural areas, 71 percent reported compiling a regional TIP or list of priority projects for consideration for the STIP. Over half of these organizations (56 percent) reported that their regional TIP or...
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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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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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NADO Holds Webinar on Transportation and Disaster Recovery
On Thursday, June 7, 2012, the NADO Research Foundation held the webinar “Lessons Learned from Irene: Regional Planning Commission Involvement in Recovery of Vermont’s Transportation Network,” which featured a joint presentation from two regional planning commissions (RPCs) that make up...