Understanding the CMP Summary Map

Understanding the CMP Summary Map

What the Summary Map Shows
It is a challenge to reach consensus on specific strategies for all parts of the congested multimodal transportation corridors in an area of over 3,800 square miles and approximately five-and-a-half million people. It is almost as much of a challenge to present the results in one small understandable map. The current summary map is shown at left.

The approach used to develop strategies for all congested subcorridors was designed to be efficient, rational, flexible enough for unique local conditions, and to make good use of the time invested by reviewers.

• It started with a set of ten subcorridor types common in the DVRPC region and strategies for each one. The ten types are listed in the legend of the summary map.
• Each subcorridor was assigned a type, with notes about its other characteristics.
• This draft assignment was refined with consideration of specific environmental, community, and economic development issues, major adopted reports, and reviews by the Advisory Committee and DVRPC staff.

What the Map Does NOT Show
The summary map does not differentiate between each congested corridor and it does not show much detail. Also, note that corridors overlap. The table below is a list of each congested corridor for this regional-level process. These corridors include related multimodal facilities that serve general flows of people and goods; and they are responsive to the land uses that interact with transportation along them. Very brief names were used, but much more information is available in the full CMP report or through DVRPC.

2006 Regional Congested Corridors