October 27, 2016

CTP 2.0 Update

NC RPOs and NCDOT Transportation Planning Branch

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Purpose of CTP 2.0 effort

With the exception of adding a pedestrian element, the format of the CTP maps has

been basically unchanged since 2001.

Things have changed over the last 15 years:

• Complete Streets

• STI / prioritization

• Changes to online mapping applications

• Customer feedback (external/internal)

There is a strong desire to optimize limited resources and improve customer

service.

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Who Are the CTP Partners/ Customers?

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• MPOs, RPOs, NCDOT

• Local governments and citizens

• FHWA

• Various NCDOT business units

• Partnering agencies in the planning & project development processes

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Feedback Gathering

Considerable feedback and opinions! (almost 500 responses)

• Survey Monkey (online survey)

• Sticky Note exercises with TPB staff, RPOs, and CTP 2.0 committee

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Customer Feedback Highlights

• Make more user friendly

• Update the maps

• Funding Process

• More Frequent Updates

• Improve public involvement

• Shorten CTP process

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Committee Consensus Highlights

• CTPs should include planning level cost estimates, consistent with SPOT

• Fiscal realism (handled by RPOs)

• Reports should be streamlined

• Align maps with some current classification system

• Consider moving format to a web-based version

• Consider 1 or 2 poster size CTP maps to replace current multiple maps

• Integrate SPOT prioritization mapping with CTP maps

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CTP 2.0 Subcommittees

Mapping

Report

Problem

Statement

Fiscal

Realism-

RPOs

CTP 2.0

Committee

Future Process

Improvements

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CTP Draft Highway Maps

Recommend separating the current

CTP Highway Map in to 2 maps to

reduce visual clutter & enhance its

usefulness

• Highway Recommendations Map

• Highway Systems Map

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Map purpose

Gray surrounding counties

with roads

*Only CTP recommendations

(no existing)

*Overall, lack of visual clutter

*Recommendation numbers

ties into report

*Ties in with SPOT

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Draft CTP Highway Recommendations Map

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Draft CTP Highway Recommendations Map Proposed Legend

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Draft Recommendations Sheets

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Can accommodate short term and long

term goals for same recommendation

Numbers match color on map

Brief description of recommendation

All recommendations specifies short

or long term

Refers to recommendation sheet

(if available)

Can include map or insets

Includes Operations

Draft Recommendations Descriptions

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Map purpose

Gray surrounding counties

with roads

Identifies majors and minors

*Shows changes in categories

Use term Multilane

Divided Highway

Draft CTP Highway Systems Map

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Draft CTP Systems Map- Proposed Facility Types

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• Freight Informational Map

• Will link to Statewide Freight Plan

• Second draft of the Freight Maps

with lots of improvements planned

Draft CTP Freight Map

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Next Steps for CTP 2.0

• Finalize recommendations for Highway Recommendations and Systems Maps, Develop recommendations for multi-modal maps

• Complete Report Template/ Example

• Develop approach for “database” or other tool to generate Recommendations Sheets and other documentation, in order to consolidate various data sources and streamline documentation

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Questions / Comments Suggestions / Feedback