Presentation made October 22nd and 23rd, 2012, to the 2040 Regional Transportation Plan's Community Advisory Committee and Core Technical Team.

1. 2040 Regional Transportation Plan
Community Advisory Committee
Meeting
October 23, 2012
Chattanooga-Hamilton County/N. GA Transportation Planning Organization

2. 2040 Regional Transportation Plan
Core Technical Team
Meeting
October 23, 2012
Chattanooga-Hamilton County/N. GA Transportation Planning Organization

3. Agenda
• Overview
• Results of Public Outreach Activities
• Review of Goals & Objectives
• Travel Demand Model Update
• Needs Identification Exercise
• Public Workshops
• Next Steps

4. Overview
Progress to date

5. Public Outreach Schedule
COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE + CORE TECHNICAL TEAM
Community leaders and technical experts comprise these two committees, whose input will
help form plan goals and validate recommendations.
Meeting #1: July 25-26, 2012 Meeting #3: January 2013
Status report to committees: Late August Meeting #4: Mid March 2013
Meeting #2: Mid October 2012 Status report to committees: April 2013
Status report to committees: Late November
LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUMS WORKSHOPS
Large forum events where regional initiatives, Transit Aspirations: August 22, 2012
strategies, and integration are contemplated
Visioning: Mid October 2012
by political and community leaders from
throughout the region Priorities: January 2013
Visioning Event: August 23, 2012 Draft Fiscally Constrained Plan: Mid
May 2013
Project Summit: Early December 2012
STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS PUBLIC MEETINGS
One-on-one and small group interviews with Community Open House (kickoff):
key community figures, agencies, service August 23, 2012
providers, and other relevant groups.
Community Open House: Early
August 21-24, 2012 December 2012
Mid October 2012 Final Plan Open House: October 2013

6. Questionnaire
325 Questionnaires have been completed to date

7. Transit Aspiration Workshop
• The “Chattanooga Way” • High Speed Rail to Atlanta
• Multi-modal mobility • Connectivity

8. Open House
32 people attended

9. Leadership Symposium
Over 80 people attended the event
Mobility Chip Game

10. Leadership Symposium

11. Stakeholder Interviews
2 stakeholder interviews completed during August
event period
6 interviews scheduled this week, including economic
development, quality of life, and service providers
1 jurisdiction meeting with City of Soddy-Daisy

12. Defining Goals and Objectives
First critical step in the process
Based on outreach efforts summarized previously

13. Performance-Based Plan
• TPO advancing previous performance-based planning
efforts from 2035 RTP
• Performance-based plan process:
– Supports transparent decision-making
in competitive funding environment
– Provides context for plan development
Quality Data
and helps balance analysis across
competing needs
– Applies key metrics to track positive
outcomes
– Ensures investment decisions align with
long-term goals
– Allows MPO to manage expectations
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14. Defining Goals and Objectives
• First critical step in the process
• Based on outreach efforts
conducted summer 2012
– Community Advisory Committee
and Core Technical Committee
meetings
– Regional leadership symposium
– Transit visioning workshop
– Public open house and public
questionnaires
– Stakeholder interviews
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15. “Community to Region” Framework
Region to Region
Community to Region
Within Community
INVESTMENT NEEDS THAT
SUPPORT:
INVESTMENT NEEDS THAT
SUPPORT: • Mobility and intermodal
INVESTMENT NEEDS THAT improvements to ensure
• Strategic, multimodal region is well connected
SUPPORT:
connections between within the state and the
• Local, multimodal communities and regional nation
connections and access to activity/economic centers • Support economic
community resources to support economic competitiveness and
• Advance livability and quality development advance overall economic
of life principles development potential
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16. Goals and Objectives
Within Community Goal: BUILD AND MAINTAIN SAFE AND HEALTHY
COMMUNITIES
Objectives:
• Support walkable and bicycle-friendly communities that
promote safe, connections to community
resources
• Provide incentives for complete streets project design
• Encourage investments anchored in integrated
transportation and land use planning, that support
desired community character
• Improve safety through improved system operations,
preventative maintenance, and ADA compliance
• Prioritize investments in areas where local land use and
development regulations support healthy, safe
communities
• Prioritize investment that improves multimodal access to
existing or planned transit hubs or that fills gaps in
existing multimodal system
• Encourage connected street network
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17. Goals and Objectives
Community to Region Goal: CONNECT COMMUNITIES IN THE REGION BY
PROVIDING MULTIMODAL TRAVEL OPTIONS TO
ACTIVITY AND ECONOMIC CENTERS
Objectives:
• Preserve, maintain and improve existing
infrastructure before adding new capacity
• Provide incentives for complete streets project
design
• Encourage corridor improvements anchored in
integrated transportation and land use planning, that
support desired community character
• Improve mobility and support economic
development by providing expanded set of travel
options, with emphasis on public transit
• Improve travel time reliability through improved
system operations
• Incentive corridor protection plans
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18. Goals and Objectives
Region to Region Goal: GROW ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
THROUGH STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN CRITICAL
REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Objectives:
• Preserve, maintain and improve existing
infrastructure before adding new capacity
• Support continued economic growth of
the region by improving intermodal
connections that reduce delay for both people
and goods
• Reduce delay on critical regional thoroughfares
with minimal impact to community, historic and
environmental resources
• Improve the efficiency and reliability of freight,
cargo and goods movement by reducing delay
on corridors critical to freight movement
• Improve travel time reliability through
improved system operations
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19. Performance Framework Outcomes
Region to Region
Community to Region
Within Community
• Enable balanced consideration of investment needs across three
geographic scales
• Infuse context into the project evaluation process to better match solutions
to needs
• Provide flexible approach to project evaluation to support livability
considerations at community level without impeding mobility and
economic considerations at regional level
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20. Identifying Future Needs
• Addressing congestion
• Preservation of existing system
• Assuring safety and security
• Active transportation: pedestrian
and bicycle mobility; complete
streets; health
• Transit alternatives
• Climate resilience
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21. Needs: Congestion
• Air quality 2010 2040 % Growth
• Safety impacts Population 445,000 560,000 26%
• Cost of congestion
• Competitiveness Future Year Congested Highways
• Quality of life
• Future year demand on
E&C network
– Travel demand model
– Congested corridors
– Hotspots
– Managing operations
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22. Travel Demand Modeling
Purpose
• To understand future
transportation demand
• To test transportation scenarios
• Inputs to air quality analysis

23. Travel Demand Modeling
Model Features
• Standard 4-Step Model
• Time of Day
• Mode Choice
• Truck Model
• Vehicle Availability
• High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes

24. Travel Demand Modeling
Data Inputs
• Land Use
• Travel Characteristics
• Roadway and Transit
Characteristics

25. Travel Demand Modeling
Model Operation
• Trip Generation
• Trip Distribution
• Mode Choice
• Assignment

26. Travel Demand Modeling
Schedule
• Base Year
• Model Input – approved September 11
• Trip Behavior – approved October 15
• Trip Assignment – draft for review October 25
• Calibration and Validation – draft October 25

27. Travel Demand Modeling
Schedule
• Future Year – draft October 31
• Future Year on Existing Network
• Future Year on Existing and Committed Network
• Future Year on Major Route Plan
• Model Interface – draft October 31
• Model Training – Mid-December

28. Needs: Congestion
Transportation Systems Management and
Operations (TSM&O) includes:
• Traffic Incident Management • Work Zone Traffic
• Travel Information Services Management
(for roadways and for • Roadway Weather
transit) Information
• Freeway Management • Electronic Payment (for
• Automatic Vehicle Location transit, parking, tolling)
for Transit • Freight Management (ports
• Traffic Signal Coordination and transfer areas)
Applied individually or in combination
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29. Needs: Congestion
Why Is TSM&O Important?
To take back as much of the road as we can !
TSM&O
Weather
Work Zones
Incidents
Recurring congestion
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30. Needs: System Preservation
• Focus of MAP-21
• Impact to National competitiveness
– 1 in 4 bridges deficient (2009)
– Wilcox Tunnel (1931)
– Chickamauga Lock (1940)
Pavement Analysis Bridge Analysis
3%
9% Not Deficient
Good 19%
18% Functionally Obsolete
Fair
Poor Structurally Deficient
73%
78%
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31. Needs: System Preservation
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32. Needs: System Preservation
• Data sources:
– National Bridge Inventory (FHWA)
– State (TN, GA), County and Municipal
departments
– National Transit Database (FTA)
• Develop costs to address
deficiencies
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33. Needs: Safety and Security
• Traffic crashes leading
cause of death 5-34yo
450 80
• 55 deaths; 330 injuries
71
400 62 70
58 56
350 60
annually in region 300
250
47
44
49
50
40
• $1,700 per person 200
150
30
100 20
50 10
404 386 366 319 261 252 332
0 0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Serious Injuries Fatalities
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34. Needs: Safety and Security
• Emphasis areas:
– Roadway departure Roadway Departure 33.4%
Aggressive 33.3%
– Aggressive driving Intersection
Seat Belt Use 25.2%
32.6%
– Intersection crashes Young Drivers (15-24)
Motorcycles* 12.5%
19.1%
Alcohol Impaired 12.3%
– Seat belt use Older Drivers (65+)
Heavy Trucks
8.7%
3.0%
– Young drivers Pedestrian*
Work Zone**
1.3%
0.5%
Pedacylists/Bicyclists* 0.2%
0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0% 35.0% 40.0%
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35. Needs: Active Transportation
• Human-power replaced by automobile
and other powered modes
• Resultant decline in national health
– Childhood obesity
– Cost to families
• Lack of suitable facilities
– Topographic, geographic challenges
– Average home 1.6 miles from a facility
→ Complete streets
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36. Needs: Active Transportation
• Where are the greatest
needs?
• What facilities are
needed?
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37. Needs: Active Transportation
• Pedestrian trips
– Short-distance focus
– Land use pattern
– Generators
– Barriers
– Topography
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38. Needs: Active Transportation
• Bicycle trips
– Longer distance
– Generators
– Road and traffic
conditions
– Bicycle level of service
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39. Needs: Active Transportation
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40. Needs: Transit Alternatives
• Not served by auto travel:
– Tourist market
– Aging population
– Youth less inclined to drive
– Zero-car households
Investment Job Creation
• Jobs and economic Every $1 billion invested in Creates and supports an
transit capital and operations average of 36,000 jobs
development
• Fuel cost and oil
dependence
• Environment and air quality Source: American Public Transportation Association
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41. Transit Benefits: Economy
Investment Economic Return
For every $1 invested in $4 is generated in economic
public transportation returns
Source: American Public Transportation Association 41

42. Transit Benefits: Quality of Life
Transit Use Annual Savings
Americans living in areas 796 million hours in travel time
served by public +
4,400 fewer miles driven
transportation
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Source: Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) Report on Congestion and American Public Transportation Association

43. Transit Benefits: Energy
Transit Use Savings
In 2011, Americans took 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline
10.4 billion trips per year
on public transportation +
900,000 automobile fill-ups
every day
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Source: American Public Transportation Association

44. Transit Benefits: Environment
Mode Shift Savings
20 mile roundtrip commute Decrease CO2 air pollutant
emissions by 4,800 pounds
per year
=
10% less carbon footprint in a
two-car household
from driving to transit
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Source: American Public Transportation Association

45. Needs: Transit Alternatives
• What’s in our future?
– Continued growth in suburban
residential and employment
– Aging population
– Airport growth focus
– High Speed Rail
– Limited highway expansion
– Fuel costs and air quality impacts
– Impact of new technologies
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46. Needs: Transit Alternatives
• Vision for Transit
– Electric vehicle technology
– Connect downtown, airport, Enterprise S
• Strategies
– Collaboration & Leadership
– Private sector; education partners
– Technology
– Integration with land use
– Service levels by area
– Funding
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47. Needs: Transit Alternatives
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48. Needs: Climate Resilience
• September Climate Adaptation
Workshop
• Increasing frequency:
– Extreme precipitation
– Extreme temperature
• Potential Climate Impacts:
– Flooding, erosion, road closures
– Landslides and other earthwork failures
– Pavement cracking and rutting
– Bridges – Scour critical and expansion
– Airport take off and landing issues

49. Needs: Climate Resilience
• Critical
Transportation
Assets
– Chickamauga
Lock and Dam,
– Chattanooga
Airport and SR
153 access,
– Interchange of I-
75/I-24,
– Enterprise South
road and rail
access, and
– Downtown
bridges.

50. Needs: Climate Resilience
• Potential Adaptation strategies:
– More resilient infrastructure design
and materials
– Establish network redundancy and
emergency detours
– Better maintenance of drainage
systems
– Conduct more detailed vulnerability
and risk assessment of certain assets
• Relation to RTP
– Performance measure for network
redundancy
– Flag RTP projects on identified
critical/vulnerable assets and work
with project sponsors on resilient
design

51. Needs: What Next?
• Develop alternative scenarios to address
deficiencies:
– Spatial component of growth
– Balance of modal options
– Focus on systems management?
– Focus on transit
and alternative modes?
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52. Don’t Forget the Workshops
DISCUSSION

53. Public Workshop Schedule
OCTOBER 22, 2012 –
Constitution Hall – 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Soddy-Daisy High School Cafeteria – 6:00-8:00 p.m.
OCTOBER 23, 2012 –
Downtown Chattanooga – 4:30-7:00 p.m.
Collegedale Municipal Building – 6:00-8:00 p.m.