The transportation plan update document discusses several key topics in transportation planning for the region including air quality and conformity with emissions standards, fiscal constraint analysis balancing projected costs and revenues, safety and congestion conditions analysis, assessment of alternative transportation modes and their impacts, and environmental justice and mitigation analyses. The environmental mitigation analysis identifies transportation projects with potential impacts to environmental resources through mapping and categorization of projects and their intersections with wetlands, watersheds, species habitats, cultural sites, and other protected areas.

1. Transportation Plan Update

4. Transportation Goals

5. Air Quality ‐Transportation Conformity
Transportation conformity rules require a conformity determination with
every major update or change to the Long Range Transportation Plan.
Conformity provides the link between the Regional Transportation Plan
and the State Implementation Plan (SIP). SIPs establish control strategies
and budgets for each pollutant and those budgets are then used to
demonstrate conformity.
The regional emissions analyses indicate that the 2040 Plan demonstrates
conformity to the PM and 8‐hour ozone standards.
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50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
2015
Budget
2020 2022
Budget
2022 2030 2040
404.4
238.2
261.3
215.9 190.6 193.4
Tons/year
Analysis Year
PM 2.5
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2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
2015
Budget
2020 2022
Budget
2022 2030 2040
12,865.5
6,284.6 6,270.6
5,246.3
3,662.6
3,251.4
Tons/year
Analysis Year
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6. Fiscal Constraint Analysis
For each mode, the costs of the 2016 through 2040
plan projects are balanced against projected revenues
and, following the FAST Act requirements, are
expressed in year of expenditure dollars.
The fiscal constraints for each transportation mode are
summarized below in millions of dollars.

7. Safety and Congestion
Conditions

10. Transportation System and
Congestion Analysis

14. Alternative Transportation Modes

17. Community Impact Assessment

18. Definition of Environmental Justice
“The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people
regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with
respect to the development, implementation and enforcement
of environmental laws, regulations and policies. Fair
treatments means that no group of people, including racial,
ethnic or socio‐economic group should bear a
disproportionate share of the negative environmental
consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and
commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local
and tribal programs and policies.” (U.S. EPA Office of
Environmental Justice)
MVRPC’s Approach
The methods adopted by MVRPC to fulfill EJ requirements
follow guidelines by the Ohio Department of Transportation
(ODOT) and the recommendations of the Ohio EJ Task Force.
The approach adopts a three step process to measure the
impact of development patterns and the transportation
system on disadvantaged populations.

20. Distribution of Environmental Justice Populations

21. Average Travel Time to Major Facility in minutes

22. Average Travel Time to Work in minutes

23. Environmental Mitigation
Analysis

24. Environmental Mitigation Analysis
The Environmental Mitigation Analysis identifies the potential impacts of
transportation projects proposed in the 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan
(LRTP) on the Region’s environmental resources.
The analysis began by categorizing the projects based on their significance for
potential impacts on natural resources.
Significant Projects: road widening, new lanes, new interchanges, etc.
Not Significant Projects: new turn lanes, traffic signals, realignments, etc.
Significant projects were analyzed for potential impacts and Not Significant ones
were not. Significant projects that are included in the Transportation
Improvement Program (TIP) and have environmental impact documentation
were also excluded from this analysis as their actual impacts are already
documented.
Projects categorized as Significant and without environmental documentation on the
TIP were mapped with various environmental resources. Projects that intersected
these natural resources were identified as having the potential for environmental
impact.

25. Wetlands and Scenic Rivers

26. Watersheds and Wellfields

27. Endangered Species

28. Cultural Features

29. Parklands

30. Superfund Locations

31. Environmental Analysis Classification

32. Environmental Analysis Results