An official website of the POLICY 1: Planning support
This policy states:
Maintain a robust and current set of data, maps, plans, processes, and applications to support regional transportation planning.
The transportation policy plan includes policies that guide all work and apply to all goals and objectives. Policy 1: Planning support is one of those policies.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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1A. Regularly update prioritization studies and quantitative and qualitative datasets that inform funding prioritization processes, including functional classification designation, regional bicycle transportation network, freight system maps, and others to reflect the most current representation of needs. Use data analysis procedures that allow for reproduction and updates. Regional datasets and mapping should be incorporated into local comprehensive planning. Action types: |
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| 1B. Explore new quantitative and qualitative datasets and sources to further define and understand transportation issues and needs. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Local Planning |
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| 1C. Expand data collection efforts to better understand transportation system use for every mode. Regularly collect regional pedestrian and bicycling activity data. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Local Planning |
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| 1D. Evaluate the uses of the four minor arterial sub-classifications and whether the current system or a different system is most appropriate moving forward. Implement findings as necessary. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 1E. Document a transportation need or priority for the project area as part of a local planning document or study completed within the last 10 years. Appropriate plans may include a comprehensive plan, regional or statewide plan, system plan (like bicycle or pedestrian facilities), Safe Routes to School plan, or corridor study. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning Partner |
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| 1F. Maintain, review, and update, as needed, access management guidelines for Principal Arterial and Minor Arterial corridors to preserve and enhance their safety and capacity, as measured by person throughput. Identify opportunities to manage, consolidate, and limit access or repair street grids, as appropriate, when implementing roadway improvement projects. Coordinate with MnDOT and regional partners on access guidelines. Action types: Local Planning Partner |
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| 1G. Maintain, review, and update as needed, the Preliminary Interchange Approval Process (Appendix F), the Metro Freeway Project Approval, and congestion management processes for the regional highway system to ensure proposed interchange and freeway investments are consistent with regional policy. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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