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TAC Members |
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Mr. Joe Bryan, TAC Chair Commissioner,
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Mr. Charles Meeker, TAC Vice Chair Mayor, City
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Mr. Don Bumgarner Mayor
Pro-Tem, Town of |
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Mr. Sam Bridges Mayor, Town
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Mr. John Byrne Mayor, Town
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Mr. Mike Chalk Councilman,
Town of |
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Mr. Bill Connelly Mayor
Pro-Tem, Town of |
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Ms. Jan Faulkner Mayor
Pro-Tem, Town of |
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Ms. Ann Franklin Board
Member, Triangle Transit Authority |
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Ms. Vivian Jones Mayor, Town
of |
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Ms. Nancy Kelly Mayor, Town
of |
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Mr. Ernie McAlister Mayor, Town
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Mr. Dick Sears Mayor, Town
of |
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Mr. John Sullivan |
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Ms. Nina Szlosberg Board
Member, NCDOT Division Five |
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Mr. Keith Weatherly Mayor, Town
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N.C.Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
Transportation Advisory committee
City Council Chambers
Avery C. Upchurch Government
Complex
AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS
·
FY
2006-2012 MTIP and Air Quality Conformity Report
·
capital
area mpo 2007-2013 regional project priority list
·
joint
mpo socioeconomic data exercise – proposed forecast methodology
STRATEGIC PLANNING WORK SESSION
The Capital
AreA MPO Vision:
A multi-modal transportation
network that is compatible with our growth, sensitive to the environment,
improves quality of life and is accessible to all (2030 LRTP).
N.C. Capital
Area
Metropolitan
Planning Organization
The
Capital Area MPO coordinates transportation planning in
This
agenda and the accompanying attachments can be accessed via the CAMPO website
at
In
compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), accommodations will
be provided for persons requiring assistance in order to participate in the
N.C. Capital Area MPO’s meetings. If
such assistance is needed or to request this document in an alternative format,
please contact the MPO’s office at 919-807-8511 (voice), 919-807-8517 (fax), or
919-890-3107 (TTY located at City of Raleigh Public Affairs Dept.) at least 72
hours in advance of the meeting.
N.C. CAPITAL AREA
METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION
TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
2nd
Avery C. Upchurch
Governmental Complex
AGENDA
1. Preliminaries
2. Adjustments to
the Agenda
3. Public Comments
This is an opportunity for comments by those in
attendance. Please limit comments to three minutes for each speaker.
4. Approval of
Minutes
The minutes of the
TAC Action: Approval.
5. FY 2006-2012 MTIP and Air Quality
Conformity Report (Public Hearing)
The N.C. Board of
Transportation (NCBOT) approved the FY 2006-2012 State Transportation
Improvement Program (STIP) on
The Capital Area MPO’s
TIP/Project Priority Subcommittee met on
examined other
regionally significant projects such as I-40, I-440, and US 70 with regard to
their scheduling within the MTIP, and requested that staff address these
projects and present possible
revisions to those
schedules. The Capital Area MPO staff
reviewed the transit element and made corrections that will be incorporated
into the FY 2006-2012 MTIP as well. Attachment
5B reflects the subcommittee’s proposed revisions to the highway
element of the Capital Area MPO’s 2006-2012 MTIP. The highway projects that show a revision
are:
(1) Project I-4744 – the I-40 widening,
(2) Project R-2635 – Western Wake Expressway,
(3) Project U-2719 – Widening I-440, and
(4) Project U-4708 – the rehabilitation of
These changes are shown
in the chart listed as Attachment
5C. The schedules for the
aforementioned projects were adjusted in years four through seven, of the
Capital Area MPO’s MTIP. These changes
do not affect the first three-year period of the TIP schedule for which the MPO
will receive federal funds. The NCDOT
may move projects and change the phases of projects listed in the first
three-year period of the 2006-2012 MTIP, providing that air quality conformity
and financial constraint criteria are met, without additional programming or
project approval by the MPO.
The Capital Area MPO
staff also reviewed the transit portion of the MTIP, and found a number of
inconsistencies between the proposed MTIP and the submitted transit list
adopted by the TAC on
Following discussion
during the August 4 TCC meeting, it was determined that the best course of
action for the FY 2006-2012 Capital Area MPO MTIP was to:
(1) recommend that the TAC adopt the initial draft
2006-2012 MTIP with the 4 changes outlined in Attachment 5B along with the
corrections to errors found in the transit element, and
(2) Recommend that the TAC restate to NCDOT
the importance of the Raleigh Signal System.
TAC Action: Conduct Public Hearing on
FY 2006-2012 MTIP and Air Quality Conformity Report and Finding. The TCC recommends approval by the TAC of the
FY 2006-2012 Capital Area MPO MTIP with the schedule revisions as outlined for Project
I-4744 – widening I-40, Project R-2635 – Western Wake Expressway, Project
U-2719 – widening I-440, Project U-4708 – the rehabilitation of Raleigh’s
existing signal system, corrections to errors found in the transit element; and the restatement to
NCDOT of the importance of the Raleigh Signal System.
6. Capital Area MPO 2007-2013 Regional
Project Priority List
The TCC and TAC members agreed, during their May
meetings, on a schedule for development of the 2007-2013 Project Priority
list. Attachment
6A shows the schedule of activity for the 2007-2013 Project
Priority List exercise.
The Capital Area MPO’s TIP/Project Priority
Subcommittee met on Friday, July 15, 2005 to discuss the process to be used in
prioritizing transportation projects from throughout the region.
This exercise will incorporate the priority TIP
projects submitted by the governments of counties in the process of becoming
official members of the Capital Area MPO.
Those counties (Franklin, Granville, Harnett, and Johnston) were in
previous years solely members of Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs) and had
developed their transportation priority lists through accordingly.
High priority corridors identified by the RPOs
include US 401 in Franklin County, I-40 in Johnston County, NC 55 and US 401 in
Harnett County and NC 50 and I-85 in Granville County.
During the June 15 TAC meeting, Chairman Bryan
requested, given the time frame allowed, that the priority list undergo objective
technical analysis as part of its development.
The subcommittee directed staff to initially compile the list of
projects from throughout the region, perform an update of the user benefits
analyses and score those projects based on criteria developed during the
previous comprehensive transportation priority setting exercise. It was discovered that a criteria other than
that used by
Attachment
6B represents roadway projects that have been “sorted” by
estimated project costs. This attachment
is a useful tool to allow small projects to compete for smaller funding
categories without being “stifled” by competing against larger projects. Attachment 6B.1 is a listing of all of the
Capital Area MPO’s advanced planning, bicycle pedestrian, enhancement, and
Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) projects. Attachment
6B.2 is the list of the Capital Area MPO’s top twenty highway
projects. The categories shown in that
list include: (1) the sponsoring agency and rank, (2) project description, (3)
estimated project costs, (4) cross reference with NCDOT Id number, (5) Long
Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) horizon year, (6) User Benefits/Project Mile,
(7) project score, and (8) project division.
The projects included within the top twenty priorities are relatively
consistent with the FY 2006-2012 Project Priority List, as well as with
directives for prioritization established during previous TAC meetings. This top twenty listing also represents a
good geographical distribution of projects that have acceptable technical
merits as generated through the User Benefit Analysis tool and the Highway
Benefits Comparison Model tool. Attachment
6B.3 includes the same categories as
shown in the previous attachment; with the exception that the list includes the
remaining projects from within
TAC Action: Review FY 2007-2013 Regional Project Priority
List for comments and guidance as appropriate.
Per schedule approved at TAC’s
30-day public comment period (from
7. Joint MPO Socioeconomic Data Exercise–
Proposed Forecast Methodology
Staff members from both the Capital Area MPO and
the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO have met to address socioeconomic data
collection for the Triangle Regional Model (TRM). The group
had its initial meeting on May 3, 2005, and
discussed issues of “refreshing” the 2002 base data in the TRM as well as
collecting data for 2005. The
representative of the Wake County Public School System noted that the school
system was growing at a rate of 5,000 students per year; and that the school
bond is scheduled to be moved to 2006.
The Wake County Public School System plans to provide geocoding for
every student in the county. Mr. Mike
Miller of
Public School System’s node geometry layer. Data will be collected at the parcel level
for a given base year and forecasted for future years.
The subcommittee met in June to gather further
information about the exercise that Mr. Miller is working on, and determined
that both data collection efforts for the TRM and
(1) mid-July completion by the
OR/Ed. Lab of a planning region
geodatabase for all of
(2) mid-July
completion of TAZ structure for the new model area by the TRM Model Team; and
(3) “testing”
of the methodology being developed by the OR/Ed. Lab that the
A smaller technical committee (a subset of the S.E.
Data Subcommittee) is working with Mr. Miller on defining development profiles
that will be used during the socioeconomic data gathering exercise. Mr. Kenneth Withrow will give the TAC a brief
presentation on the methodology being developed; and explain how it will be a
useful tool for future socioeconomic data gathering exercises. An overview of this presentation is shown as Attachment
7.
TAC Action: Receive information for discussion and action as appropriate.
STAFF
REPORTS
8. Reports from the
Chair
Chip
Russell, TCC Chair
9. MPO Staff Reports
Ed
Johnson, MPO Director
10. NCDOT Reports
Jon
Nance / Wally Bowman - Division 5
11. Other Business and
Pending Items
INFORMATIONAL ITEM:
12. 2005
Information on the 2005 NC
MPO Conference being held in
PENDING
ITEMS
Item #01 – Comprehensive Transportation Plan (for Highways)
– (Fall 2005)
Item #02 – Capital Area MPO Organization Structure - (Fall
2005)
Item
#03 - Joint MPO Socioeconomic Data Collection / Forecasting Process – (Winter
2005-2006)
UPCOMING MEETINGS