DOT Livability Initiative

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DOT Livability Initiative

• Smart Mobility Framework Workshop
• June 16, 2009
• Presented by
• K. Sue Kiser
• Director, Planning and Air Quality
• FHWA California Division

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DOT Livability Initiative

• Goal To enhance the economic and social
  well-being of all Americans by creating and
  maintaining a safe, reliable, intermodal and
  accessible transportation network that enhances
  choices for transportation users, provides easy
  access to employment opportunities and other
  destinations, and promotes positive effects on
  the surrounding community

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery
Act)

• 1.5 billion of discretionary grant funds for
  capital investments in surface transportation
• Grants for Transportation Investment Generating
  Economic Recovery or TIGER
• Primary Selection Criteria include (1) Long-Term
  Outcomes and (2) Jobs Creation Economic
  Stimulus.
• The Secondary Selection Criteria include (1)
  Innovation and (2) Partnership

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TIGER Grants Criteria

• Long-Term Outcomes
• (i) State of Good Repair
• (ii) Economic Competitiveness
• (iii) Livability
• (iv) Sustainability
• (v) Safety

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TIGER Grants Criteria

• Livability
• (1) Enhance user mobility through the creation
  of more convenient transportation options for
  travelers
• (2) Improve existing transportation choices by
  enhancing points of modal connectivity or by
  reducing congestion on existing modal assets
• (3) Improve accessibility and transport services
  for economically disadvantaged populations,
  non-drivers, senior citizens, and persons with
  disabilities, or to make goods, commodities, and
  services more readily available to these groups
• (4) Results from a planning process which
  coordinated transportation and land-use planning
  decisions and encouraged community participation
  in the process.

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TIGER Grants Criteria

• Sustainability
• Improve energy efficiency, reduce dependence on
  oil and/or reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Maintain, protect or enhance the environment

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Reauthorization

• The current authorization for Federal surface
  transportation programs SAFETEA-LU expires at
  the end of FY 2009
• Efforts underway at DOT to develop
  Administrations proposal
• Performance based
• Investments that are environmentally focused
• Multi-modal
• Livability and Sustainability will be the
  centerpiece

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Sustainable Communities InitiativeU.S. HUD/DOT

• Proposed in HUDs FY 2010 budget request
• Creates a HUD/DOT Task Force to
• Enhance integrated planning efforts
• Develop affordability measures
• Develop livability measures
• Harmonize HUD DOT
• programs
• Undertake joint research,
• data collection outreach

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Federal Interagency Effort

• Federal Interagency Working Group on
  Transportation, Land Use and Climate Change
• Initiated in June 2008
• 13 agencies represented
• Currently, developing performance measures,
  research and data needs

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What are we in FHWA doing?

• New Sustainable Transport and Climate Change
  Team

• Outreach
• PEW, CCAP, Other Federal Agencies
• Education
• Informational QAs, Webinar, Newsletter, DOT
  Clearinghouse, New HEP website
• Peer Exchanges
• MPOs and state DOTs

• Technical Assistance
• Modeling, Adaptation
• Research
• Gulf Coast Study, SLR study, VMT, Mitigation
  strategies

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Protecting Current and Future Investments

• Changes in climate will affect transportation
  infrastructure and operations
• Sea level rise, increased storm intensity,
  increased temperature extremes
• Internal FHWA working group on adaptation

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Web Sites

• TIGER Grant Federal Register Notice
  http//edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-11542.pd
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• FHWA Highways and Climate Change website
  www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/climate
• US DOT Transportation and Climate Change
  Clearinghouse www.climate.dot.gov/