Planning for SAFETEALU: MPO Listening Session

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Planning for SAFETEA-LUMPO Listening Session
WELCOME!
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Planning for SAFETEA-LUPurpose and Need

• The purpose of this listening session is to
  solicit input on the planning provisions of
  SAFETEA-LU. Your input is valuable to FHWA and
  FTA
• This session will be devoted to listening to your
  comments and questions
• FHWA and FTA are interested in how best to
  implement the SAFETEA-LU planning provisions
  regulation, guidance, best practices, etc.

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Planning for SAFETEA-LUAgenda

• Consultation
• Existing Transportation Facilities
• Operations and Maintenance
• Congestion Management Process
• Public Participation Plan
• Visualization
• Publication
• Coordinated Pubic Transit Human Services
  Transportation Plan
• Air Quality/Conformity
• General/Other

• Planning Cycles
• Statewide/Metro Plan
• STIP/TIP
• Annual List of Projects
• Fiscal Constraint
• Planning Factors
• Consistency of Plan with Planned Growth and
  Development
• Transportation Security
• Safety in Planning
• Environment in Planning
• Mitigation
• MIS/Linking Planning and NEPA

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Planning Cycles

• Metropolitan transportation plans must be updated
  at least every four years in air quality
  nonattainment and maintenance areas
• Metropolitan transportation plans in attainment
  areas must be updated at least every five years

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Planning Cycles

• STIPs and metropolitan TIPs must be updated every
  4 years
• Must contain at least 4 years of projects and
  strategies
• The 4-year cycle and requirements for including
  4-years of projects and strategies go hand in
  hand and must be implemented together
• All TIPs, STIPs, and Plans adopted (or amended,
  revised, updated, etc.) after July 1, 2007, must
  comply with all SAFETEA-LU planning provisions

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Annual List of Projects

• Development shall be a cooperative effort of the
  State, transit operator, and MPO
• Include two new project types, pedestrian
  walkways and bicycle transportation facilities

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Fiscal Constraint

• Requirements unchanged in SAFETEA-LU
• Fiscal constraint required for STIPs, TIPs, and
  metropolitan plans
• Ensures that plans, STIPs, and TIPs reflect
  realistic assumptions of capital, operations, and
  maintenance costs
• See FHWA/FTA Interim Guidance issued June 2005,
  at http//www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/fcindex.htm

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Planning Factors

• Consistency of Plan with planned growth and
  development
• Expands previous planning factor related to the
  environment
• Adds promot(ing) consistency between
  transportation improvements and State/local
  planned growth and economic development
• Transportation Security
• Stand alone planning factor
• Signals increase in importance from prior
  legislation

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Safety

• Stand alone planning factor
• Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
• Includes policies, priorities, and strategies to
  improve the safety of the transportation system
• States are required to develop the SHSP after
  consultation with stakeholders, including MPOs
  and RPOs
• Goals and objectives of approved SHSPs must be
  reflected in state and metro transportation plans

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Environment in Planning

• Mitigation
• Metro and statewide transportation plans must
  include discussion of potential environmental
  mitigation
• Developed in consultation with Federal, State and
  Tribal wildlife, land management, and regulatory
  agencies
• Does not require discussion of environmental
  mitigation for individual projects

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Environment in Planning

• MIS and Linking Planning and NEPA
• TEA-21 eliminated MIS as separate requirement,
  but must be integrated into transportation
  planning and NEPA
• See FHWA/FTA Guidance on Linking Planning and
  NEPA issued February 2005, at http//environment.f
  hwa.dot.gov/strmlng/Planning_NEPAGuidance.pdf

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Statewide Transportation Plan Consultation

• Statewide Plan shall be developed in
• Cooperation with metropolitan planning
  organizations
• Consultation with affected nonmetropolitan
  officials
• Consultation with tribal government and the
  Secretary of Interior

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Statewide Transportation Plan Consultation

• Statewide Plan shall be developed, as
  appropriate, in consultation with State, tribal,
  and local agencies responsible for
• Land use management
• Natural Resources
• Environmental Protection
• Conservation
• Historic Preservation
• This consultation shall involve comparison of
  transportation plans to State and tribal
  conservation plans and maps, if available and to
  inventories of natural or historic resources, if
  available

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
MPO Transportation Plan Consultation

• MPO shall consult, as appropriate, with State and
  local agencies responsible for
• Land use management
• Natural Resources
• Environmental Protection
• Conservation
• Historic Preservation
• This consultation shall involve comparison with
  State conservation plans or maps, if available
  or comparison to inventories of natural or
  historic resources, if available.

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Existing Transportation Facilities

• Operational and Management
• Metropolitan plans shall include operational and
  management strategies to
• Improve the performance of existing
  transportation facilities to relieve congestion
• Maximize the safety and mobility of people and
  goods
• Statewide Transportation Plans should include
  capital, operations and management strategies,
  investments, procedures, and other measures to
  ensure the preservation and most efficient use of
  existing transportation system

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Existing Transportation Facilities

• Congestion Management Process (CMP) required in
  TMAs
• Replaces ISTEA/TEA-21 requirement for Congestion
  Management System (CMS)
• Each TMA must define a plan and schedule for CMP
  implementation

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Public Participation Plan

• To the maximum extent possible MPOs and States
  must
• Publish or make available for public view
  transportation plans, STIPs and TIPs
• Hold public meetings at convenient and accessible
  times and locations
• Employ visualization techniques to describe
  Plans, STIPs, and TIPs
• Visualization techniques can vary

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Coordinated Public Transit Human Services
Transportation Plan

• Proposed projects must be derived from a locally
  developed public transit-human services
  transportation plan
• Condition for receiving formula funding under 3
  FTA Programs
• 5310 Special Needs of Elderly Individuals with
  Disabilities
• 5316(g) Job Access and Reverse Commute
• 5317(f) New Freedom
• Plan developed through process that includes
  representatives of public, private, and
  non-profit transportation and human service
  providers, as well as the public
• Service providers should ensure full coordination
  with applicable metropolitan and statewide
  planning process

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Planning for SAFETEA-LU Key Planning Provisions
Conformity

• New grace period for conformity lapse 12 months
• Update of conformity cycles at least every
  4-years
• Conformity redetermination on existing plans and
  TIPs within 2 years of certain action on SIP
• Options to shorten time horizon for conformity
  demonstration
• TCM substitution easier

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Planning for SAFETEA-LUMPO Listening Session
THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!
Your input is valuable to FHWA and FTA