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The WVDOT Planning Process
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• Planning Division Components• Statewide Planning• Components of the Process• Handoff Points• Alphabet Soup of Acronyms
Agenda
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Planning Division Components• Geospatial Transportation Information (GIS)• Research• Grants• Environmental Planning• Planning• Design Study • Visualization• Traffic Modeling and Analysis
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Planning Division Components con’t• Traffic Counting• Performance Measures• Local Public Agency (LPA) Oversight• State and County Maps• HPMS submission
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Statewide Planning• Visualization Unit• Design Study Unit• Regional Planning Unit
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Visualization Unit• Assists in the Project Development Process
• Public Involvement
• Landscape Architecture / Site Design• Safe Transportation for Every Pedestrian (STEP)
• Photographic Documentation
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Visualization Unit• Assists in the Project Development Process – Public Involvement
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Visualization Unit• Landscape Architecture / Site Design
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Visualization Unit• Photographic Documentation
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Design Study Unit
• Preliminary Engineering Studies• Planning and Environmental Linkage (PEL)• Grant Engineering Review• Project Management• Coal Resource Transportation System (CRTS)
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Regional Planning Unit• Statewide Planning• Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan (SWLRTP)• Planning Studies• MPO Coordination/Oversight• Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinator• Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER),
Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA), Federal Land Access Program (FLAP), Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (CMAQ)
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Coordination Amongst Units• Grants
• Environmental Planning Unit• Design Study Unit• Regional Planning Unit
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• Design Study Unit• Environmental Planning Unit• Regional Planning Unit• Visualization Unit• Traffic Modeling/Analysis Unit
Coordination Amongst Units
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• Regional Planning Unit• Environmental Planning Unit• Design Study Unit• Visualization Unit• Traffic Modeling/Analysis Unit
Coordination Amongst Units
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• Traffic Modeling/Analysis Unit• Design Study Unit• Visualization Unit• Regional Planning Unit
Coordination Amongst Units
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Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan
• Multimodal• Performance Planning• Transportation Asset Management Plan (TAMP)• Performance Measures/Targets• Revenue Projections• Historic List of Unfunded Projects• Trade off Analyses• Benefit Cost Ratios
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• 11 Regional Planning and Development Councils (RPDCs)• 8 Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs)
Rural vs Urban Planning
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• RPDC have in their Mission to do Transportation Planning• Small Urban Plans
• Marion County• Raleigh County• Harrison County• Mercer County
Rural
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• Statewide Multimodal Long Range Transportation Plan (SWLRTP)• Benefit to Cost (B/C)• Mobility• Safety• All Modes
• Freight Plan• National Freight Network
• Urban and Rural
• Bicycle Connectivity Plan
Rural
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• MPOs• Federally Mandated to do Transportation Planning in Areas < 50,000• Transportation Management Area (TMA) < 200,000
• Sub Allocation of Funds Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) and Transportation Alternative (TA)
• Unified Work Program (UPWP)• Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)• Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)• Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)• Air Quality Conformity
Urban
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• Collaboration with State and MPO• Consistent with LRTP• Four Years in Duration• Federally Funded Projects or Regionally Significant• Groups Small Projects (Small Bridges, Slips, Slides, Paving, RPMs,
Guardrails, TA Grants, etc.)• Air Quality Conformity for Nonattainment or Maintenance Areas
TIP
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• Consistent with SWLRTP• Must Contain Projects in TIPs• All Other Rural Federal and Regionally Significant Projects• Fiscal Constraint Kept• Four Years + Two for Information Purposes
STIP
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• Work Elements for MPOs• Budget for MPOs• Reporting Component• Annual Certifications
UPWP
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• Planning for at Least a 20 Year Planning Horizon• Fiscally Constrained• Unfunded Need• Revenue Forecast by WVDOH• Expansion/Capacity Adding Projects• Updated Every 4 or 5 Years
LRTP
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• Travel Demand Modeling• Travel Times• Land Use• Population and Employment• Trip Purpose• Roadway Network• Conformity Determination• Calibration/Validation
LRTP
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Transportation Need Identification
LRTP Modeled AQ Conformity
Constrained Plan TIP/STIPPlanning Environmental Linkage
What Do WE Do With This Stuff
Handoff to Engineering Division
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Alphabet Soup of Acronyms
GIS CMAQ TIPLPA RPDCs STIPSTEP MPOs LRTPPEL B/C CRTSSWLRTP TMATIGER STBGINFRA TAFLAP UPWP