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Connections - The Regional Plan for a Sustainable Future - SUMMARY BRIEF summarizes the key plan principles of the Connections plan. Connections set regional policy and agenda. It reviews long-term and recent development trends and considers future land use scenarios along with extensive public input as the basis for creating a regional vision to guide future development in the nine-county DVRPC region.…

Over 450 people die in crashes on the roads of the nine-county Delaware Valley in an average year. Over 50,000 people are injured in approximately 90,000 crashes. The 2009 Safety Action Plan: Improving Transportation Safety in the Delaware Valley (Publication Number 09032) includes a methodology to define key safety emphasis areas, a range of strategies for each of the seven emphasis areas, and a focused…

This report examines the potential of constructing roundabouts in a variety of types of locations in the Delaware Valley. Using criteria and county input, one location per county was chosen from a list developed in the first phase of this project. This second phase utilized VISSIM software to analyze various performance measures of a potential roundabout at each location and included discussing these…

Understanding crashes on the roads in the Delaware Valley is an important step in increasing safety. This publication analyzes information about crashes and the seven safety emphasis areas for the region developed in conjunction with the update of the Safety Action Plan for the Delaware Valley (publication 09032). Analysis includes numbers and rates of crashes, as well as information about who…

Over 450 people die in crashes on the roads of the nine-county Delaware Valley in an average year. Over 50,000 people are injured in approximately 90,000 crashes. The Safety Action Plan includes a methodology to define key safety emphasis areas, a range of strategies for each of the seven emphasis areas, and a focused implementation table to reduce the number of fatalities. The Safety Action Plan…

The Greater Philadelphia Economic Development Framework (Framework) was developed to satisfy provisions for a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for the Greater Philadelphia Region, encompassing portions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. This document was developed according to provisions outlined in 13 CFR 303.7(c), Consideration of non- EDA funded CEDS, and was authored cooperatively…

This project explores work commute trip patterns across the Delaware River from Bucks County to Mercer County, and presents concepts to better serve these trip patterns with public transit. This project specifically focuses on trips from Bucks County to downtown Trenton and to major employers along the Route 1 corridor in Mercer County, as well as off Interstate 95 in Hopewell and Lawrence townships,…

This report focuses on the application of context-sensitive solutions (CSS) principles and best practices, including traffic calming, focusing on the case study site of PA 896 in Franklin Township, Chester County, PA. CSS is a means to link land use and transportation planning and implementation. The case study is included, with recommendations and before and after photo simulations. The study includes…

This document outlines a long-range vision of transportation operations for the DVRPC region. It presents transportation operations goals, objectives, and operational strategies to achieve them. An operations vision establishes a plan of where ITS infrastructure, emergency service patrols, and incident management task forces, should be deployed in the region. A series of plans and programs are identified…

A summary of the 2008 NJ Transit Rail Customer Survey of Trenton and Hamilton stations of the Northeast Corridor rail line. This survey was conducted for NJ Transit (NJT) so as to update rider demographics, ridership trends, and to update and enhance NJT's travel model.