Regional tranport system RTP

THE CONTENTS….
 WHAT IS REGIONAL TRANSPORT PLANNING?
 Regional Blueprint Planning Program
 Smart Mobility Framework
 Context Sensitive Solutions
 Background and Purpose of the RTP Guidelines
 Strategies
 Grievance re-adressal
 Performance measure

WHAT IS REGIONAL
TRANSPORT PLANNING?
The Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) is a long-term blueprint of a
region’s transportation system. Usually RTPs are conducted every five
years and are plans for thirty years into the future. The plan identifies
and analyses transportation needs of the metropolitan region and
creates a framework for project priorities.
These plans are normally the product of recommendations and
studies carried out and put forth by a Metropolitan planning
organization (MPO). MPOs were formed under the 1962 Federal-Aid
Highway Act and are required for any urban area with a population of
greater than 50,000.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
OF THE RTP GUIDELINES
The purposes of these Guidelines are to:
1. Promote an integrated, state-wide, multimodal, regional transportation
planning process
and effective transportation investments
2. Set forth a uniform transportation planning framework throughout
California by
identifying federal and state requirements and statures impacting the
development of
RTPs
3. Promote a continuous, comprehensive, and cooperative transportation
planning process
that facilitates the rapid and efficient development and implementation of
projects that
maintain California’s commitment to public health and environmental quality

STEPS UNDERTAKEN
DURING THE REGIONAL
PLANNING PROCESS
INCLUDE:1. Providing a long-term (20 year) visioning framework
2. Monitoring existing conditions
3. Forecasting population and employment growth
4. Assessing projected land uses in the region and identifying major
growth
corridors
5. Identifying alternatives and needs and analyzing, through detailed
planning
studies, various transportation improvements

CONTINUED….
6. Developing alternative capital and operating strategies for people
and goods;
7. Estimating the impact of the transportation system on air quality
within the
region; and,
8. Developing a financial plan that covers operating costs,
maintenance of the
system, system preservation costs, and new capital investments.

CASE STUDY
This the case study of California state.
The Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), also called a Metropolitan
Transportation Plan (MTP) or Long-Range Transportation Plan is the
mechanism used in California by both Metropolitan Planning
Organizations (MPOs) and Regional Transportation Planning Agencies
(RTPAs) to conduct long-range (minimum of 20 years) planning in
their regions. The purpose of RTPs is to encourage and promote the
safe and efficient management , operation and development of a
regional intermodal transportation system that, when linked with
appropriate land use planning, will serve the mobility needs of goods
and people.

SAN DIEGO
TRANSPORTATION
MODEL

REGIONAL BLUEPRINT
PLANNING PROGRAM
• The Regional Blueprint Planning Program provides assistance
for MPOs and rural RTPAs to engage in public and Tribal
outreach to select community preferred growth scenarios for
the future.
• Through Regional Blueprints, MPOs and RTPAs attempt to
balance transportation planning with land use planning,
housing needs, resource protection and other planning issues
in order to achieve more sustainable regional growth patterns
and improve the quality of life.
• The program has been underway by many MPOs and RTPAs for
several years with financial support.

SMART MOBILITY FRAMEWORK
1. Healthy communities, liveable communities, reliable travel times for
people and freight, and safety for all users.
2. Supports the goals of climate change intervention and energy security.
3. The sustainability principles - the “3Es” of Environment, Economy, and
Equity.
4. Caltrans has embraced the principles and incorporated these
principles into the California Transportation Plan (CTP).
5. Planning Programs reflect the recognition that a full set of
transportation strategies includes initiatives to address land use and
development.

SMART MOBILITY IS AN
APPROACH THAT ADDRESSES
• The state’s mandate to address climate change.
• The need to reduce per capita vehicle miles travelled.
• Demand for a safe transportation system that gets people and
goods to their
destinations.
• The commitment to create a transportation system that advances
social equity and
environmental justice.

CONTEXT SENSITIVE
SOLUTIONS
• Approach to planning, designing, constructing , maintaining, and
operating the transportation system. It integrates and balances
community , aesthetic, historic, and environmental values with
transportation safety, maintenance, and performance goals.
• Context sensitive solutions are reached through a collaborative ,
interdisciplinary process involving all stakeholders.
• CSS attempts to balance transportation goals with community goals
and natural environments. This requires careful, imaginative, and
early planning, and continuous community involvement.

STRATEGIES
• Strategies, actions and improvements identified in the adopted CSMP that are
needed to restore capacity, taking into consideration state-wide and regional
objectives which can include but are not limited to: multi-modal mobility,
accessibility, environmental protection, and greenhouse gas reduction.
• Describe how the corridor will be managed across jurisdictions and modes to
preserve corridor productivity based upon performance measurement Identify urban
freeway corridors with current and projected recurrent daily vehicle hours of delay
that are a priority for preparing CSMPs.

CONTD…
• Include a reasonable time-line for each urban freeway corridor to
be restored to full capacity and identify actions to preserve capacity
restoration recognizing the need for each region to consider multiple
objectives regarding corridor mobility.
• Identify funding by corridor to implement the CSMP.
• Describe roles and relationships among units of local government,
modal agencies,
Caltrans and related agencies for managing the corridor for highest
mobility benefits
and for measuring and evaluating performance.

GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL
The MPO/RTPA shall provide the following
interested parties with reasonable opportunity to comment on the
proposed RTP:
1. Citizens
2. Affected public agencies
3. Representatives of public transportation employees
4. Freight shippers
5. Private providers of transportation;

CONTINUED…
6. Representatives of users of public transportation;
7. Representatives of users of pedestrian walkways and bicycle
transportation facilities;
8. Representatives of people with disabilities;
9. Providers of freight transportation services; and,
10. Other interested parties.

PERFORMANCE MEASURE
Caltrans coordinates its performance measure activity with MPOs/RTPAs.
MPOs/RTPAs should develop and implement their own performance
measures on regional roads, transit, rail, bicycle and pedestrian facilities etc.
Examples of performance measures include:
1. Improve Mobility/Accessibility;
2. Preserve the Transportation System;
3. Safety & Security;
4. Reliability;
5. Economic Well Being;

Metro system serving Delhi
and its satellite cities of
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and Ghaziabad in
National Capital Region in India

Regional tranport system RTP