The document outlines the public involvement process for the 2040 Regional Transportation Plan. It describes workshops on October 22-23 where the public can provide input on goals and priorities, as well as proposed transportation investments. Attendees will be able to participate in stations on safety, transit, system preservation, and congestion to help identify key issues and locations of concern. The plan will be developed over the next year with input from committees, workshops, interviews, and public meetings to create a fiscally constrained 20-year regional transportation plan.

1. 2040 Regional Transportation Plan
Public Workshops
October 22 - 23, 2012
Chattanooga-Hamilton County/N. GA Transportation Planning Organization

2. Agenda
• Why are we here?
• Study Area Overview
• Contributing Influences
• Draft Goals & Objectives
• Overview of Activities & Stations
• Opportunities for further involvement

3. What is the RTP?
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning
Agency
• Joint City-County Agency
• staffed by city planners and urban designers
• Governed by an Executive Committee that includes the
Hamilton County Major, Chattanooga Mayor, County
Commission Chair, City Council Chair and Planning
Commission Chair
• Develops land use and transportation plans, administers
zoning, proposes development policies, reviews development
projects
• Jurisdiction lies within Hamilton County

4. TPO Structure
Chattanooga-Hamilton County/North Georgia
Transportation Planning Organization
• 29 member regional policy board
• staffed by the Regional Planning Agency
• a mandated mid to long-range plan produced every four
years with a 20-year horizon
• federally funded planning enabling federally funded
transportation projects
• legislative requirements including air quality standards

5. Study Area Overview
Planning Area includes:
Chattanooga and Hamilton
County
Northern Georgia

6. Contributing Influences
SAFETY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AFFORDABILITY FUNDING
LIVABILITY ACCESSIBILITY EFFICIENCY

7. Contributing Influences
Our regional transportation plan must
address many needs:
– Mobility and access
– Economic competitiveness
– Safety and security
– Environmental impacts and quality of life
– Maintenance and operations of existing
network
…all in a climate of declining resources!

8. “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

9. Proposed 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

10. Proposed 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

11. Proposed 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

12. 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

13. Activities and Stations
Safety
Transit
System Preservation
Congestion

14. Your dot expresses your opinion

15. Safety Station
Each participant will be offered 3 dots that can
be placed on a board showing 12 safety
categories. Where you place your dot(s)
expresses your opinion on the relative priority
of each category.
Each participant will also be given the
opportunity to identify problem intersections
and corridors on a study area map.

16. Transit Station
Participants will be asked to identify which
of 6 transit alternatives they would be
most likely to use as well as which
alternative they think the community at
large needs.
Each participant will also be given the
opportunity to identify where these
alternatives should be located on a map.

17. System Preservation
Participants will be asked to identify
corridors and areas where they believe
attention-maintenance is needed.

18. Congestion
Participants will be asked to review
current plan strategies to address
congestion and identify locations with
high levels of congestion or locations
that require improvements.

19. Additional Opportunities
Let us know what you think on…
• Facebook
• Online– Plan Website
• Additional Public Meetings & Workshops
• The Questionnaire!

20. Public Involvement 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

21. Thank you!