An Overview of Transportation Planning and TTP Program

Transportation planning, or transport planning, has historically followed the rational planning model of defining goals and objectives, identifying problems, generating alternatives, evaluating alternatives, and developing plans. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Conventional (also called traditional or business as usual) transportation planning refers to current practices for making transport policy, investment and design decisions.

Multi-modal planning refers to planning that considers various modes (walking, cycling, automobile, public transit, etc.) and connections among modes. Multi-Modal Transportation Planning Victoria Transport Policy Institute

Transportation planning

Traffic impact studies evaluate traffic impacts and mitigation strategies for a particular development or project.

Local transport planning develops municipal and neighborhood transport plans. Regional transportation planning develops plans for a metropolitan region. State, provincial and national transportation planning develops plans for a large

jurisdiction, to be implemented by a transportation agency. Strategic transportation plans develop long-range plans, typically 20-40 years into the

future. Transportation improvement plans (TIPs) or action plans identify specific projects and

programs to be implemented within a few years. Corridor transportation plans identify projects and programs to be implemented on a

specific corridor, such as along a particular highway, bridge or route. Performance-based planning and programming (PBPP) refers to the application of

performance management principles within the planning and programming processes of transportation agencies to achieve desired performance outcomes for the multimodal transportation system.

Tribal Transportation Planning?

Types of transportation planning

clearly demonstrate a Tribe’s transportation needs and to fulfill Tribal goals by developing strategies to meet these needs. 25 CFR170.410(a)

Tribal Transportation Planning

Sovereignty Culture access roads Land Status

Individual fee land Restricted Fee Land Allotted Land Trust Land

Subsistence hunting, fishing and gathering

Why say Tribal?

What are the origins and migrations of the Tribe? How did they arrive at their present location? Tell their own story, ….

What are the Tribe’s Treaty or Treaties, reserved Treaty rights, …?

How was the Tribal community formed? By relocation? Removal ? Treaty? Later Agreements or Orders ?

Source: STRATEGIC LAND PLANNING ONE SEMESTER COURSE Prepared for the Indian Land Tenure Foundation

Why say Tribal?

Purpose of Transportation

Mobility Access

When Mobility and Access Stops!

Makah Reservation – Neah Bay, Washington

Where did the project come from?

Project Emphasis Modal

TIP

Decision Makers

Dept. of Transportati

on

A process that focuses on building projects rather than on shaping the reservation/Tribal community and solving interdepartmental transportation problems.

Comprehensive

TIP

Public State

Elected Officials

CountyPlanning

Organizations

GovernmentAgencies

Tribal DOT

A process where tough decisions are made to prioritize and exclude projects

Provide the decision-makers with alternatives to make effective and efficient decisions to fulfill the mission

Documented process that demonstrates how choices are made

Measuring the impacts of those choices on the community

Mission: Provide a safe and reliable transportation system Goal: Improve pedestrian mobility

Strategy: Reconstruct 1000 ft. of sidewalk by 2016 Policy: All class 3 projects will be reviewed for pedestrian improvements Implement: TIP using TTP funds

Planning

LRTP Inventory Construction need Priority List Public Involvement

TIP Four year financially constrained projects Public Involvement

What does that look like with TTP?

Tribal Transportation Program

Changes under MAP2125cfr170.400 DRAFT

New funding formula Tribe, BIA, and FHWA Planning – no cape on planning $35,000.00

is removed. Sec.170.404 is struck Maintenance - $500,000.00 or 25% which

ever is higher TIP – struck 3-5 yrs. added 4 years

Tribal Transportation Program Planning

DRAFT