Update for VTrans2025 Technical Committee

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Update for VTrans2025 Technical Committee

• February 24, 2006
• Dr. James H. Lambert
• Alexander S. Linthicum

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Contents

• Introduction
• Performance Metrics
• Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential
• Request for Information
• Appendix A Performance Metrics
• Appendix B Suggestions of Metrics for Quality
  of Life and Environmental Stewardship
• Appendix C Amsterdam-Utrecht Corridor

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Introduction

• Last non-VTrans Technical Committee Meeting
• November 28, 2005 at DRPT
• Discussed metrics for rail and transit
• Charged by Kim to focus on Quality of Life and
  Environmental Stewardship metrics
• Since November meeting, UVA has focused on
• Quality of life performance metrics
• Use of performance metrics to determine
  multimodal corridor maturity and potential

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Performance Metrics

• Developed performance metrics that include
• Metrics distributed by Kathy Graham at January
  VTrans meeting
• Metrics for determining multimodal corridor
  maturity and priority
• Suggestions for Quality of Life and
  Environmental Stewardship metrics
• Located in Appendix A

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential

• Compared to all eleven corridors, specific
  transportation corridors
• Are more multimodal in nature
• Are more amenable to multimodal investment
• Have greater potential to benefit from multimodal
  investment
• UVA team is working on a framework to
  characterize them in terms of their multimodal
  maturity and potential
• Maturity gauges how multimodal in nature a
  corridor is currently
• Potential gauges which corridors are the
  strongest candidates for multimodal solutions
  based on current conditions and future potential

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential

• Maturity and potential is based on the VTrans2025
  goals
• Primary
• Safety
• Mobility, accessibility, connectivity
• Quality of life, environmental stewardship
• Secondary
• Preservation/Maintenance
• Economic vitality
• Fiscal responsibility

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential

• Maturity and potential study will identify
• Characteristics of current network
• Volume of passengers and goods
• Segments of significant congestion by mode
• Particularly dangerous segments by mode
• Mode share
• Spatial characteristics
• Densities of population, residence, workplace
• Significant productions and attractions
• Amount of parking
• Qualitative characteristics
• Localities that actively consider transportation
  in land use planning process
• State, regional, and local transportation demand
  management policies

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential

• Maturity and potential will be determined
  primarily from quantitative performance metrics
• Mobility, Accessibility, Connectivity
• Land Use
• Density (population, housing, jobs, attractions)
• Accessibility to attractions by mode within time
  radius
• Percent/amount of mixed use zoning
• Availability of free parking
• Transportation
• Mode share
• Presence/quality of intermodal facilities
• Preservation, Maintenance
• Level of Service by mode

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential

• Quantitative performance metrics (continued)
• Safety and Security
• Accidents/injuries/fatalities by mode, normalized
  by person-mile traveled
• Quality of life
• Travel time
• Travel time variability
• Out of pocket cost
• Environmental Impact
• Air quality
• Greenhouse gases
• Noise pollution
• Watershed
• Natural habitats

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential

• Characterizing corridors with respect to
  multimodal maturity and potential will allow
  Virginia to identify corridor segments and
  localities that
• Are currently positioned for multimodal
  investment
• Are not currently positioned for multimodal
  investment
• Will benefit most from multimodal investment
• Will not benefit greatly from multimodal
  investment

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential

• Approach
• Corridors are one element of a system consisting
  of
• Transportation network
• Passenger
• Freight
• Regional and local land uses
• Transportation and land use policies
• Consider passenger and freight separately, but
  consider interactions where appropriate
• Safety
• Operations

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential

• Data Sources
• US Census
• BTS
• UVA GeoStat Lab
• Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP)
• Contains place of residence, place of work, and
  flows between home and work
• VDOT State Planning System
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• MPOs

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Request For Information

• What is the scope of a multimodal corridor?
• Physical boundaries
• Mileage radius
• Geographical boundary (Census Tract, TAZ)
  (preferable)
• Functional boundaries
• Statewide network is interrelated with local
  networks
• Relieving congestion on statewide corridors
  requires investigation and improvement to local
  transportation and land use

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Multimodal Corridor Maturity and Potential
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Request For Information

• What is the VTrans2025 position concerning the
  conflicting objectives of mobility and
  accessibility?
• Increasing mobility on roads will in many cases
  erode transit ridership and decentralize
  productions and attractions, reducing
  accessibility on other modes
• Travel demand management, increased rail and
  transit capabilities, and centralizing
  productions and attractions encourage people to
  take shorter, non-auto trips, inherently reducing
  mobility

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Request For Information

• Given the funding shortage for transportation
  initiatives, and given the Kaine administrations
  excitement about transportation, would this be a
  good time to focus on policies?
• Land use alignments with transportation goals?
• Travel demand management?
• Congestion Pricing?

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Appendix A Performance Metrics
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Appendix A - Performance Metrics

• Safety and Security
• Accidents
• Injuries
• Fatalities
• Injuries / 100M VMT
• Fatalities / 100M VMT
• Crashes / Passenger Carried (or per million
  passenger miles?)
• Fatalities / Passenger Carried (or per million
  passenger miles?)
• Injuries w/ Bikes, Pedestrians, Trains, Heavy
  Trucks, Buses
• Fatalities w/ Bikes, Pedestrians, Trains, Heavy
  Trucks, Buses
• at-grade crossings
• crashes / train mile
• airports conducting voluntary security programs
  
• port compliance with Maritime Transportation
  Safety Act
• OSHA recordables per 200K hours worked
• crime rate at Park and Ride facilities

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Appendix A - Performance Metrics

• Performance and Maintenance
• lane miles deficient
• bridges functionally obsolete
• bridges structurally deficient
• average clearance time for incidents
• pavement condition
• maintenance backlog
• maintenance of total budget
• facilities past recommended retirement age
• mean time between failure
• mean distance between failure
• Coordination with Freight for Track Usage
• facilities not double-stack compatible
• Coordination with Passenger Rail for Track Usage
• Dwell Time for Containers
• TEUs Per Acre

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Appendix A - Performance Metrics

• Mobility, Accessibility, Connectivity
• lane miles
• vehicle mix
• VMT
• AADT
• lane miles V/C gt 1
• Ridership
• buses with bike racks
• communities with transit service
• of stations with bicycle facilities
• at-grade crossings
• communities within 10 miles of station
• Enplanements
• population within a 30 minute drive of GA
  airport
• population within a 45 minute drive of
  commercial airport
• air service volumes
• Port capacity (TEU)
• Size of ships accommodated
• / utilization of park and ride spaces

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Appendix A - Performance Metrics

• Economic Vitality
• transportation cost per user
• average length of commute
• level of service
• attractions / jobs within 1/4 mile of transit
  stops
• population within 30 minutes of GA airport
• population within 45 minutes of commercial
  airport
• number of planes based at airports
• economic impact of GA airport
• economic impact of commercial airport
• TEU's handled
• value of goods
• distribution centers / warehouses in corridor
• square footage
• investment dollars
• of employees

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Appendix A - Performance Metrics

• Quality of Life, Environmental Stewardship
• Average Delay Time
• Increase of LOS due to TDM or transit usage
• Reduction of VMT due to TDM or transit usage
• overall customer satisfaction
• Reliability
• customer wait time
• population within 30 minutes of GA airport
• population within 45 minutes of commercial
  airport
• See Appendix B for further suggestions

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Appendix A - Performance Metrics

• Fiscal Responsibility
• PPTAs
• Projects completed on time and on budget
• localities participating in First Cities
• localities participating in Local Planning
  initiatives
• Grants completed on time and on budget
• Prioritization process
• Current cash operating revenues
• Current year beginning cash balances

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Appendix B Suggestions of Metrics for Quality
of Life and Environmental Stewardship

• from Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Appendix B -
  Performance Measures Library
• (still need to identify which document)

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Appendix B - Quality of Life

• Accessibility, Mobility Related
• population that perceives its environment has
  become more 'livable'over the past year with
  regard to ability to access desired locations
• of region's unemployed or poor that cite
  transportation access as aprincipal barrier to
  seeking employment
• of region's mobility-impaired who can reach
  specific activities bypublic transportation or
  by walking/wheelchair
• Customer perception of satisfaction with commute
  time
• Customer perception of quality transit service
• Lost time due to congestion
• Average number of hours spent traveling
• Work trips completed per vehicle hour

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Appendix B - Quality of Life

• Safety Related
• Customer perception of safety while in travel
  system
• of population which perceives that response
  time by police, fire, rescue, or emergency
  services has become better or worse, and whether
  that is due to transportation factors

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Appendix B - Quality of Life

• Air Quality Related
• Tons of air pollution emitted by all modes
  (including energy used to power METRO and other
  facilities)
• of days Pollution Standard Index is in
  unhealthful range
• Number of urban areas classified as
  non-attainment status
• Population in areas classified as non-attainment
  statusCustomer perception of satisfaction with
  air quality

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Appendix B - Quality of Life

• Noise Related
• of population exposed to levels of
  transportation noise above 60 decibels
• Number of residences exposed to noise in excess
  of established thresholds
• Number of noise receptor sites above threshold

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Appendix B - Quality of Life

• Other Environment Related
• Customer perception of satisfaction with
  transportation decisions which impact the
  environment
• Customer perception of amount of salt used on
  trunk highways
• Amount of salt used per VMT or per lane-mile
• of archeological and historical sites that are
  not satisfactorily addressed in project
  development before construction begins

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Appendix B - Quality of Life

• Project Delivery Related
• Customer perception of satisfaction with
  involvement in pre-project planning
• Customer perception of satisfaction with
  completed projects
• Customer perception of promises kept on project
  completion

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Appendix B - Environmental Stewardship

• Alternative Modes, Fuels
• Overall mode split
• Mode split by facility or route
• of change in mode splits
• Public transportation passenger-miles/total
  vehicle miles
• of vehicles using alternative fuels
• use of walking and bicycling for commute trips
• use of walking and bicycling for all trips
• of miles of non-motorized facilities

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Appendix B - Environmental Stewardship

• Air Pollution
• Highway emissions levels within non-attainment
  areas
• Tons of greenhouse gases generated
• Air quality rating

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Appendix B - Environmental Stewardship

• Fuel Usage
• Fuel consumption per VMT
• Fuel consumption per PMT
• Fuel consumption per ton-mile traveled
• Average MPG
• Fuel usage splits
• Average fuel consumption per trip for selected
  trips (or shipments)

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Appendix B - Environmental Stewardship

• Land Use
• Sprawl difference between change in urban
  household density and suburban household density
• of region which is developed
• Pipelines
• degree to which pipeline spills and accidents are
  minimized
• Number of pipeline spills

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Appendix B - Environmental Stewardship

• Government Actions
• Customer perception of satisfaction with
  transportation decisions which impact the
  environment
• Number of environmental problems to be taken care
  of with existing commitments
• Number of transportation control measures (TCMs)
  accomplished vs. planned
• Environmentally friendly partnership projects per
  year

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Appendix B - Environmental Stewardship

• Miscellaneous
• VMT/speed relationships constraints to
  utilization due to noise (hours of operation)
• constraints to utilization due to water (dredge
  fill permits)
• accidents involving hazardous waste
• Amount of recycled material used in road
  construction
• and miles of designated scenic routes

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Appendix C Amsterdam-Utrecht Corridor

• Haq, Gary. Towards Sustainable Transport
  Planning A Comparison Between Britain and the
  Netherlands. Avebury. Hampshire, England.
  1997 pp 192-232

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Case Study Amsterdam-Utrecht Corridor

• Multimodal corridor analysis conducted in the
  late 90s
• Similar to I-95 corridor
• Highway network experiencing congestion
• Affecting passenger travel and freight delivery
• Two track rail corridor at full capacity
• Passenger rail unreliable due to track-sharing
  conflicts
• Thorough description of corridor
• Consideration of all of VTrans2025 goals
• Effective presentation of findings