An official website of the POLICY 25: Transit advantages
This policy states:
Provide transportation options and transit advantages on roadway corridors with delay and travel time reliability issues.
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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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 25A. Use the Congestion Management Process Handbook during project planning and development to evaluate lower-cost mobility solutions that can provide options and more reliable travel. Provide technical assistance and training on congestion management process analysis processes. Incorporate requirements or scoring measures in funding processes that prioritize use of the handbook for roadway expansion projects. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 25B. Prioritize transit, carpool, biking, and walking options on or parallel to congested corridors. Roadway authorities should work with implementers of transit during planning and project development to identify opportunities. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 25C. Implement a managed lane system to provide reliable travel for transit, carpool travel, and those willing to pay. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning Partner |
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| 25D. Consider using MnDOT highway mobility funding on roadway improvements that also support bus rapid transit, transit advantages, and managed lane improvements on corridors that have transit travel time reliability issues. Action types: Investment Priority Partner |
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| 25E. Provide an interconnected network of transit advantages on roadways between regional destinations. Identify opportunities to implement transit advantages on roadways and prioritize them based on travel time benefits and number of affected users. (See 25G for related action.) Action types: Local Planning Investment Priority |
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| 25F. Research congestion pricing options, including travel demand management incentives and general pricing, and their impact on travel patterns. Action type: Technical Capacity Building |
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| 25G. Identify and prioritize investments for dedicated transit lanes and transit advantages. Action types: Investment Priority Work Program |
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