DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
and
PLANNING COORDINATING COMMITTEE
| MONDAY, JULY 9, 2001 10:00 AM A light lunch will be available. |
AGENDA
| 9:30 a.m. | New Jersey Subcommittee Meeting on New Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Regional Transportation Committee Meeting Begins | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Working Lunch |
During the course of the fiscal year, it becomes necessary for the State Department of Transportation's (DOT's) or transit operators to amend the TIP.
The DVRPC Draft FY 2002 TIP for Southern New Jersey has been open to public comment for 30 days. The comments received have been summarized (copy is enclosed) and given to all of the NJ counties and agencies for review and response prior to the RTC meeting. The NJ Subcommittee will meet prior to the RTC meeting to finalize these considerations.
The third and final round of project selection and funding under the TEA-21 Pennsylvania Transportation Enhancements program will begin in mid August with the first of three applicant workshops. Staff will provide a brief overview of the program including workshop, application deadline, project selection and funding schedules and details.
DVRPC staff has reviewed DVRPC's Public Participation Policy (dated 1994) and is now releasing an updated plan which features an agency-wide philosophy, and new standards for citizen outreach. The draft plan will be reviewed by the RTC, Planning Coordinating Committee (PCC), Regional Citizens Committee (RCC) and the Policy Committee and is scheduled to be acted upon by the Board at its July meeting.
The Central New Jersey Transportation Forum provides a unique opportunity to bring together many regional organizations with a stake in the transportation systems of this area of Central New Jersey. The mission of the Forum is to develop a consensus for the appropriate planning strategies which will address the identified critical transportation and land use issues while maintaining consistency with the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
The purpose of this study is to project the parking needs of the PATCO system and identify and thoroughly understand the factors that influence these needs. A list of those factors would include population growth trends, employment growth projections, population aging, fare increase impacts, parking fee increase impacts, the influence of proposed mass transit improvements within the region, etc., now and for the foreseeable future.
This survey will determine the origin-destination travel patterns, travel activity, and travel mode of a sample of vehicles crossing the nine-county DVRPC cordon. The external and through trip travel patterns are especially critical for transportation facilities located near the region's nine-county boundary, as this is an area where in recent years major new development has occurred. The project will update travel characteristics that were last collected in 1988.