An official website of the POLICY 13: Reduce negative health impacts
This policy states:
Use transportation investments and priorities to reduce negative health impacts influenced by the transportation system.
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.
| = Lead agency = Supporting agency |
Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 13A. Promote investment in active transportation modes with a focus on disadvantaged communities and places where access to healthy transportation options is less developed, such as suburban and rural communities. (See policies 15 and 17 for related actions.) Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 13B. Prioritize and implement transportation projects that reduce the six common air pollutants to meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s primary air quality standards. When the region does not meet these standards, prioritize investments that help reach the standards for any of the six common air pollutants. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 13C. Emphasize travel demand management strategies on unhealthy air quality days to reduce emissions from single-occupant vehicle travel that contribute to poor air quality and health impacts. (See policy 21 for related actions.) Action types: Investment Priority Partner |
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| 13D. Preserve or install additional natural features like shade trees and native plants and grasses at, along, or near pedestrian, bicycle, and transit facilities. Ensure proper maintenance of landscaping. (See 33C and 33E for related actions.) Action types: Local Planning Partner |
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| 13E. Prioritize and invest in noise walls, natural buffers like berms, and other noise mitigation measures. (See 7D for related action.) Action type: Partner |
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| 13F. Prioritize projects that include green assets and shade cover in the transportation right-of-way with an emphasis in environmental justice areas. Use extreme heat analysis tools to evaluate needs. (See 33C and 33E for related actions.) Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 13G. Convene and support internal and external groups to evaluate and address health and safety issues related to transportation facilities, with an emphasis on communities overburdened by transportation infrastructure. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 13H. Work with partners to find assistance for those displaced from transportation rights-of-way. Work to create more housing options to ensure appropriate housing is available. Action type: Partner |
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| 13I. Provide multimodal connections to essential destinations, including cultural and social community gathering places and grocery stores. (See 13K for related action.) Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 13J. Coordinate with regional partners in health, human services, and transportation, to provide and administer public services and information at regional transportation centers, such as (but not limited to) public health supplies and information, and connections to public services. Action type: Partner |
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| 13K. Continually study and evaluate advancements in public health where it intersects with transportation considering transportation’s role as a social determinant of health. Identify opportunities to study or implement improvements for public health related to the regional transportation system. Provide technical assistance on best practices. Action type: Technical Capacity Building |
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| 13L. Identify opportunities to better serve and support access to Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk cultural resources. | (AIAC) | |||||
| 13M. Define, inventory, and map essential destinations to aid local and regional partners to connect communities to these destinations and improve public health outcomes. Expand accessibility analyses to include essential destinations when defined and inventoried. Action types: Technical Capacity Buiding Work Program |
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MDH is the Minnesota Department of Health. UMN is the University of Minnesota. AIAC is the American Indian Advisory Council.
