Welcome to the Lubbock Metropolitan Planning Organization 1 Lubbock County Citibus City of Wolfforth TxDOT City of Lubbock 2 What is the MPO? Transportation Advisory Committee Transportation Policy Committee 3 A federally mandated and federally funded transportation policy-making organization in the United States made up of Local elected officials and other transportation providers who are mandated to develop and implement a multimodal transportation network based on a continuing, cooperative and comprehensive 3-C planning process. According to law, the 3-C planning process must take place in all communities with 50,000 or more population. Further, with the passage of ISTEA in 1991, all communities with 200,000 population or more have the added mandate to monitor and control air quality issues and local congestion issues as a designated Transportation Management Area (TMA). The TMA requirements have been continued through MAP-21 and the FAST Act. 4 Additionally, the 3-C planning process must seek to satisfy or support the 10 stated project selection criteria contained in the FAST Act for implementing a national transportation network, as well as a host of Performance Measures and Targets. 5 Where are the MPO’s? 6 Amarillo Wichita Falls Sherman-Denison Fort Worth Paris Texarkana Lubbock Dallas Abilene Longview Midland Tyler El Paso Waco Austin San Angelo Killeen-Temple Bryan-College Station San Antonio Beaumont Houston/Galveston Victoria Laredo Corpus Christi Hildalgo County Harlingen-San Benito Brownsville 7 Currently there are 408 designated MPO’s in the United States. 25 are in Texas of which 8 were previously designated as TMAs. 4 new TMAs have been added since the 2010 census. It is likely that several others will be designated as TMAs in the 2020 census. Current TMAs include: Lubbock Corpus Christi El Paso Laredo Dallas/Ft. Worth Hildago County Austin Brownsville San Antonio Killeen-Temple Houston/Galveston 8 What are MPOs/TMAs required to do? 9 • Develop, implement and maintain a Metropolitan Transportation Plan with a 20 year horizon every 5 years. • Develop, implement and maintain a Transportation Improvement Plan with a 4 year horizon every 2 years. • Develop, implement and maintain a 10 year transportation plan to support TxDOT’s 10-year Unified Transportation Program financial forecast (annually). • Develop a Unified Planning Work Program or annual operating budget. • Develop a Constrained/Illustrative financial plan covering the 20 year planning horizon every 5 years. 10 • Develop, implement and maintain a Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program to monitor ground level ozone and particulate matter with solutions, annually. Projects must be designed to meet ambient air quality standards or proponents must produce plans that obtain air quality conformity within a specified period of time (TMA). • Develop, implement and maintain a: . Public Participation Plan (reviewed annually) . Title VI plan (reviewed annually) . Environmental Justice Plan (reviewed annually) . Limited English Proficiency Plan (reviewed annually) 11 • Sponsor a Joint FHWA/FTA federal certification every 4 years (TMAs). • Develop a Congestion Management Program or Plan (TMAs). • Support the development of a travel demand model every 5 years (maintained annually). • Certify functional classification of roadways with each decennial Census. • Certify a “smoothed” urbanized area boundary with each decennial Census. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Tools of the Trade 19 Travel Demand Model (TransCAD) Unified Transportation Program-UTP Various travel surveys Cell phone data Functional Classification determination National goals TxDOT goals 10 planning factors PL 112 funds planning guidance 5303 funds planning guidance Funding formulas and Distribution categories 3 operating agreements . TxDOT Operating Agreement . City of Lubbock MOU (fiscal agent) . Stakeholder MOU Bylaws & Ethics Boundary smoothing/Urbanized Area designation Scenario planning process (currently optional) 20 What is the MPO’s Jurisdiction? 21 22 What is my role? 23 Depending on which committee you have been appointed to and in what capacity determines the role you will have with the MPO. If you are appointed to serve as a voting member of either the TPC or the TAC it is important that you attend as many meetings as possible as your presence could be a determining factor in having a quorum present. A TAC member is able to appoint a proxy if they cannot attend the meeting, TPC is not. If you are appointed as a non-voting member, it is important to make meetings as often as possible to ensure each interested party has updated knowledge about the transportation planning process. 24 What is the length of my term? 25 Some members are appointed by title, i.e. County Judge or District Engineer. As long as you retain the title you will remain a member of that Committee. If you are appointed as a “representative” of your respective entity, you will remain a member until the entity that appointed you replaces you with another person. The only terms that change within the bylaws are for officers. If you are a voting member and are elected Chair or Vice Chair of the Committee you represent, your term in that capacity will be for a two year period. Elections take place in October of each EVEN numbered year for both the TAC and TPC. 26 What makes up the TPC? 27 Transportation Policy Committee The TPC is the governing body of the Lubbock MPO. Responsibilities include; among others: • Set goals and objectives for the transportation planning process and plan. • Establish fiscal and personnel management agreements between the Policy Committee and the fiscal agent. • Ensure that the Metropolitan Planning Organization is adequately staffed. 28 • Provide guidance and policy to the MPO Staff on carrying out their responsibilities. • Ensure the efficient and effective use of the FHWA PL 112 funds and FTA Section 5303 funds. • Ensure Citizen participation in the transportation planning process through a pro-active policy. • Ensure certain Standards of Conduct and Ethics among its membership. 29 As per the current By-laws, the Transportation Policy Committee is made up of 9 voting members including: • One elected County Official, Bill McCay, Commissioner • County Judge, Judge Curtis Parrish • Three City Officials/Representatives (at least 2 elected officials) • Mayor Dan Pope • Shelia Patterson-Harris, Councilwoman • Jeff Griffith, Councilman • City Manager, City of Lubbock, Jarrett Atkinson • District Engineer, TxDOT, Lubbock District 5, Steve Warren • General Manager, Citibus, Chris Mandrell • Mayor, City of Wolfforth, Dr. Charles Addington 30 And up to 11 Non-Voting Members including: • One representative from the Federal Highway Administration, Greg Wood. • One representative from the Federal Transit Administration, Melissa Foreman. • One representative of the TxDOT Transportation Planning and Programming Division, Phillip Tindall. • One representative of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) (discontinued participation). • Any State legislators, or United States Congressmen, whose districts include the study area and who desire to serve in an ex- officio capacity, which would include:. 2 Texas U.S. Senators, Cornyn and Cruz 1 Texas U.S. Representative Dist. 19, Arrington 1 Texas Senator Dist 28 Perry 2 State Rep Dist 83, Burrows and Dist 84 Frullo 31 Transportation Advisory Committee The Transportation Advisory Committee is the technical committee of the LMPO. It provides recommendations concerning projects and processes to the TPC. Some of the responsibilities of the TAC are: • Review transportation studies. • Provide technical support in the preparation of plans and reports. • Review all plans and reports and develop a recommendation to the TPC. • Advise the TPC on technical and policy matters with accompanying rationale. 32 Per the current By-laws, the TAC is made up of 13 voting members including: • Director of Planning, City of Lubbock, Bryan Isham • City Engineer, City of Lubbock, Mike Keenum • City Traffic Engineer, Traffic Operations Department Head, City of Lubbock, Sharmon Owens • Two Lubbock County Commissioners, Gilbert Flores, Chad Seay • One designated Citibus representative, Michael Mangum, CFO • Director of Transportation and Development, TxDOT, Kylan Francis • City Manager, City of Wolfforth, Darrell Newsom • Director of Public Works, Lubbock County, Jennifer Davidson • One designated representative of the LPD, Assistant Police Chief, Nathan White • One designated representative of the DPS, Lt. Richard Villanueva • Director of Public Works, City of Lubbock, Wood Franklin • One designated representative from Texas Tech, Teresa Drewell, Vice Chancellor, Facilities Planning 33 And up to as many as 16 non-voting members including: • One representative of the Transportation Planning and Programming Division of TxDOT, Phillip Tindall • One representative of FHWA, Greg Wood • One representative of TCEQ (discontinued participation) • One representative of SPAG, vacant • One representative of LSO (discontinued participation) • One representative of the Freight Community, vacant • On representative of the Airport Community, vacant • Two representatives from the City of Lubbock’s Traffic Commission, vacant. • Same 5 elected officials as noted on the Policy Committee. 34 Other interested parties include: • Texas Bicycle Coalition • The Freight Community • Preston Smith International Airport • City of Lubbock’s Traffic Commission • Lubbock Chamber of Commerce • Independent