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Capital District Transportation Committee CCaappiittaall DDiissttrriicctt TTrraannssppoorrttaattiioonn CCoommmmiitttteeee FHWA/FTA Certification Review of the Transportation Planning Process November 2008 Capital District Transportation Committee Certification Review November 2008 A UTHORS OF THE DOCUMENT: Donald Burns, FTA Region II Office Joseph Rich, FHWA New York Division Office “The MPO planning perspective must be not only broadened (in scope) but also lengthened (in planning horizon). The range of nontraditional subjects that strategies and objectives must cover includes CO2 emissions; environmental justice and CDTC’s Planning social equity; pricing; public health; environmental Perspective sustainability; intercity freight and passenger movement; new transportation technologies and other issues.” Colloquy on the Coming Transformation of Travel, June 2006 PPP rrreeefffaaaccceee hen reading about a transportation planning process and the resultant transportation plans, we often encounter very lofty goals and principles that the organization has adopted for the purpose of guiding decision making in the region. These are goals W and principles everyone can agree upon in order to achieve desirable outcomes at the Village, Town, County, MPO and State levels. Unfortunately, these goals are often unattained because the principles are mostly just umbrella-type words that are never really opened with any determination. The goals are not unattainable, just unattained. The result of this reoccurring experience is that we have the tendency to gloss over the lofty words as being window dressing - well-intentioned but rather unrealistic. The planning process in the Capital District demonstrates that that this is not the necessary outcome. In “higher terms”, CDTC does show you its faith by showing you its works. CDTC has purposefully avoided the pitfalls of the historic planning approach and its inherent ideas of centralization: the assumption of an enlightened technocracy – that planners and engineers are capable of designing the “best” regional plan for (not with) stakeholders. And - the assumption that a regional plan can be developed at the regional level without considering local rule and private market realities.1 The CDTC process engages regional economic entities, environmental groups, business CEOs and university presidents, chambers of commerce, neighborhood associations, and regional empowerment groups. Regional vision is carried out at the local level to a degree that is exemplary. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) are required to review, evaluate, and certify the metropolitan transportation planning process in each Transportation Management Area (urbanized area of 200,000 population or more) at least every four years. The certification review is to assure that the planning process is addressing the major issues facing the area, and that the planning process is being conducted in accordance with federal law and statutes. CDTC does what the law requires – what MPOs are meant to do in federal law; Congress took the MPO process seriously, but in most States, it is not taken so seriously. This report documents the FHWA and FTA 2008 certification review of the CDTC. - CAPITAL DISTRICT LOCATION MAP 2008 CDTC Review Table of CCC ooonnnttteeennntttsss Preface .......................................................................................................................i Executive Summary................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 3 Conclusions and Recommendations...................................................................................... 6 • Best Practices................................................................................................................ 6 • Status of 2004 Recommendations................................................................................. 7 • 2008 Recommendations................................................................................................ 8 Certification Topics Organizational Structure of the CDTC ............................................................................. 10 • CDTC Planning Area Boundaries................................................................................ 10 • Committee Structure and Membership ........................................................................ 12 • Agreements and Contracts ........................................................................................... 14 MPO Staffing and UPWP .................................................................................................... 15 • Central Staff................................................................................................................. 15 • Host Agency................................................................................................................. 16 • Unified Planning Work Program ................................................................................. 16 • Travel Forecasting........................................................................................................ 17 • Data Systems................................................................................................................ 18 • Consultant Administration & Management ................................................................. 19 • Statewide Efforts.......................................................................................................... 19 • Consolidated Planning Grant?...................................................................................... 20 Land Use and Transportation Planning............................................................................ 22 • A Sense of Place .......................................................................................................... 23 • Cooperative Approach to Regional Planning & Development .................................... 23 • 2030 Alternative Scenarios .......................................................................................... 26 • The MPO’s Influence on Land Use Planning .............................................................. 26 • The Community and Transportation Linkage Planning Program ............................... 27 • Albany Airport GEIS ................................................................................................... 29 New Visions 2030 Plan ......................................................................................................... 30 • The Region................................................................................................................... 30 • Evolution of the New Visions Plan .............................................................................. 31 • Quality Region Initiative.............................................................................................. 34 • New Visions 2030 ........................................................................................................ 35 • Alternative Development Scenarios............................................................................. 36 • Financial Forecast & Fiscal Constraint ........................................................................ 36 • Investment Approach ................................................................................................... 37 • Big Ticket Initiatives.................................................................................................... 39 • Hudson River Crossing Study...................................................................................... 42 2008 CDTC Review • Albany Corridor Study................................................................................................ 43 • Larger Than Regional Issues........................................................................................ 44 • Next Steps .................................................................................................................... 44 Public Involvement ............................................................................................................... 46 • Policy Guidelines ....................................................................................................... 46 • Access to Documents ................................................................................................. 48 • Methods...................................................................................................................... 48 Transportation Improvement Program.............................................................................. 51 • TIP Investment Principles .......................................................................................... 51 • TIP Development Process .......................................................................................... 53 • Complications in 2007-12 TIP Development............................................................. 54 • Fiscal Constraint......................................................................................................... 55 • Relationship to Transportation Plan........................................................................... 56 • Amendments and Project Selection............................................................................ 57 • Fiscal Constraint Complications
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