DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
| TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2002 10:00 AM A light lunch will be available. |
AGENDA
| 10:00 a.m. | Regional Transportation Committee Meeting Begins | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Update of New Jersey Pedestrian and Bikeway Master Plan. Consultants will present an overview and then open discussion. |
During the course of the fiscal year, it becomes necessary for the State Departments of Transportation (DOT's) and/or transit operators to amend the TIP. The following are offered for consideration:
Staff will present a brief update on additions to DVRPC's technical work on Environmental Justice. Work performed since publications of "...and Justice for All" - DVRPC's Strategy for Fair Treatment and Meaningful Involvement of All People will be reviewed.
Staff will outline the upcoming CMAQ Competition and lead a discussion on how the RTC will proceed. This round, the last of TEA-21, amounts to $10 million for Pennsylvania Projects and, for the first time, $1 million for New Jersey.
The City of Chester is trying to foster economic development, especially along its waterfront. DVRPC has a continuing project to monitor and estimate VMT in the Delaware Valley Region. Estimates of daily travel based on traffic counts and DVRPC's travel simulation models for 1999 and 2000 will be presented and compared.
In a work program item last year DVRPC staff prepared a special version of the regional travel simulation model focused on Chester County. This model provides more transportation system detail and greater accuracy than a regional model and allows for comprehensive evaluation of improvement scenarios.
The DVRPC Board requested staff to study potential global, national and regional changes that should be considered in the development of the 2030 Regional Plan. Preliminary analysis on an initial set of 12 scenarios has been completed. Staff will present possible alternatives, and will recommend a smaller number of scenarios to begin detailed evaluations using model simulation and other quantitative analysis methods.