Chattanooga-Hamilton County/N. GA Transportation Planning Organization

1. 2040 Regional Transportation Plan Leadership Symposium March 13, 2013 Chattanooga-Hamilton County/N. GA Transportation Planning Organization

2. TPO Structure & Plan Requirement TPO Planning Area Chattanooga-Hamilton County/North Georgia Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) -29 member regional policy board (19 governments) - staffed by the Regional Planning Agency - new plan every four years with 20+ year horizon - federally funded planning and implementation - legislative requirements including air quality standards

3. Public Outreach In just six months… 26 events/activities: 89 @ 1st Leadership Symposium 113 @ committee meetings 25 @ stakeholder discussion groups 76 @ topic-based workshops (climate change, transit, and call for projects) 58 @ public workshops + 451 @ questionnaire 812 interactions

4. Information Gathering/Synthesis 25% Over Capacity Slightly Over Capacity road condition Transit Gaps build roads traffic flow bikeways sidewalks neighborhood traffic safety 2010

5. Region to Region Community to Region Within Community Plan Goals KY GA Adopted 2040 Goals: A Scaled & Balanced Approach AL • Investment NeedsThat Support • Mobility and intermodal improvements to ensure region is well connected within the state and the nation • Support economic • competitiveness and • advance overall economic • development potential • Investment NeedsThat Support • Strategic, multimodal • connections between • communities and • Regional activity/ • economic centers • to support economic • development • Investment NeedsThat Support • Local, multimodal • connections and access • to community • resources • Advance livability and quality of life principles

6. Within Community • Goal • BUILD AND MAINTAIN SAFE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES • Objectives • Support walkable and bicycle-friendly communities that promote safe connections to community resources • Provide incentives for complete streets project design • Encourage investments anchored in integrated transportation and land use planning that support desired community character • Improve safety through improved system operations, preventative maintenance, and ADA compliance • Prioritize investments in areas where local land use and development regulations support healthy, safe communities • Prioritize investment that improves multimodal access to existing or planned transit hubs or that fills gaps in existing multimodal system • Encourage connected street network Within Community

7. Community to Region • GoalCONNECT COMMUNITIES IN THE REGION BY PROVIDING MULTIMODAL TRAVEL OPTIONS TO ACTIVITY AND ECONOMIC CENTERS • Objectives • Preserve, maintain, and improve existing infrastructure before adding new capacity • Provide incentives for complete streets project design • Encourage corridor improvements anchored in integrated transportation and land use planning that support desired community character • Improve mobility and support economic development by providing expanded set of travel options, with emphasis on public transit • Improve travel time reliability through improved system operations • Incentive corridor protection plans Community to Region KY

8. Region to Region • Goal • GROW ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY THROUGH STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN CRITICAL REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE • Objectives • Preserve, maintain, and improve existing infrastructure before adding new capacity • Support continued economic growth of the region by improving intermodal connections that reduce delay for both people and goods • Reduce delay on critical regional thoroughfares with minimal impact to community, historic and environmental resources • Improve the efficiency and reliability of freight, cargo, and goods movement by reducing delay on corridors critical to freight movement • Improve travel time reliability through improved system operations Region to Region KY GA AL

9. Performance Evaluation 9

10. How pleased are you to be here today? Extremely happy, can’t think of anything you’d rather be doing Pleased to be here but concerned about how long it will last Are here because you were told you had to be but don’t mind participating Are only attending to ensure that the planners don’t screw anything up Would rather be at the dentist getting a root canal…

11. 2040 RTP Leadership Symposium Overview of findings

12. Steps of Plan Development Process

13. Maintaining the System • Bridge, current conditions assessment • 2012 National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Database • Structural deficiency status based on bridge condition • Functional obsolete status based on geometrics, e.g., number and width of lanes • All bridges in region greater than 20-foot length Summary Bridge Conditions in Chattanooga Region

14. Average bridge health index – 92% Maintaining the System (continued)

15. Maintaining the System (continued) Summary Pavement Conditions in Chattanooga Region • Pavement, current conditions assessment • 2008 Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) database • Percent of lanes miles in good/fair/poor condition based on roughness • Thresholds defined by Federal Highway Administration • Sample data

16. Reducing Congestion • Base-year congestion analysis • Worst congestion along I-24 and I-75 • Severe congestion at junction of I-24/I-75 • U.S. 27 north of river • Hamilton Place Mall • Northgate Mall • Downtown relatively uncongested

17. Reducing Congestion (continued) • Future-year congestion analysis • U.S. 27 congestion relieved (widening project underway) • Outward expansion and general increase in severity of general congestion due to population and employment growthover time

18. Reducing Congestion (continued) • Mobility corridor analysis • More detailed assessment of 13 mobility corridors • Geographic sample of corridors with high volume auto and truck traffic (“scale 3”) • Corridors evaluatedand scored • Congestion Management Process (CMP) route • 2040 congestion levels • Key freight route • Supports high-volume external to external (through) trip movement

19. Improving Safety • Systemwide safety analysis • Traffic crashes leading cause of death 5-34 years old • 55 deaths; 330 injuries annually in region • $1,700 per person • RTP Emphasis areas • Roadway departure • Aggressive driving • Intersection crashes

20. Improving Security • Climate adaptation analysis • Critical transportationassets defined • Chickamauga Lock and Dam • Chattanooga Airportand SR 153 access • Interchange of I-75/I-24 • Enterprise South roadand rail access • Downtown bridges • Sequoyah nuclear plant • Redundant facilities and evacuation routes identified

21. Providing Access • Accessibility analysis to measure proximity of people and homes to • Active transportation facilities • Bicycle facilities (B-LOS of B or better) • Parks and Open Space • Trails • CARTA Transit Stops • Health-related destinations • Healthcare Facilities • Grocery Stores and Supermarkets • Farmers Markets /Community Gardens/ Mobile Markets • Public and Private Schools

22. Walk and Bicycle Access: Percentage of Homes with Access to Active Transportation Facilities Environmental Sustainability Needs Providing Access (continued) 1/4 Mile Walk Access 1 Mile Bicycle Access

23. Connecting the System • Transit Gap Analysis • Locations of highest transit demand • Population and household density • Land use mix • Intersection density • Distance to nearest transit stop • Jobs within one mile • Mapped against existing and planned infrastructure • Low income, minority and elderly population as overlay 23

24. Connecting the System (continued) • Bicycle Gap Analysis • Locations of highest bike demand • Population and household density • Intersection density • Jobs within one mile • Distance to nearest transit stop • Distance to commercial store • Public/private schools within one mile • Parks and recreation facilities within one mile • Mapped against existing and planned infrastructure • Low income, minority and elderly population as overlay 24

25. Connecting the System (continued) • Pedestrian Gap Analysis • Locations of highest pedestrian demand • Population and household density • Intersection density • Jobs within one mile • Distance to nearest transit stop • Distance to commercial store • Public/private schools within one mile • Parks and recreation facilities within one mile • Mapped against existing and planned infrastructure • Low income, minority and elderly population as overlay 25

26. Improving Livability and the Environment • Livability corridor analysis • More detailed assessment of 24 livability corridors • Geographic sample of corridors with potential for broad multimodal enhancements and VMT reduction (“scale 2”) • Corridors evaluated and scored in terms of: • Potential complete streets corridor, 2035 Plan • Lack of bike/pedestrian/ transit infrastructure • Population and employment density • Congestion levels

27. Operating the System • Operations assessment • Extensive ITS coverage on freeways; opportunity to extend into north Georgia • Downtown Chattanooga has extensive communication network for managing key arterials in real time; opportunity to extend to more corridors with centralized management center • Opportunity for transit signal priority for key corridors

28. Which of the following types of roadways should be the highest priority for improvements: Freeways (e.g. I-24, I-75, US-27) Major Arterials (e.g. Amnicola Highway, Lee Highway) Minor Arterials (e.g. Bonny Oaks, E. Brainerd Road) Collectors & Locals (e.g. Snow Hill Rd, Mack Smith Rd.)

29. What’s the most important transit trip for the region? Trips around town for shopping or recreation Trips to and from work Trips that enhance access to social services There are no important trips

30. What’s more important to bicycle and pedestrian travel? Connecting to places within your town (parks, schools, libraries, etc.) Connecting to regional destinations (other towns and regional parks, etc.) Both

31. How important is walkability to the future of the study area? Extremely important, we must have it no matter what Important, but only in the city limits Somewhat important, but primarily in transit corridors and downtowns Nice to have, but not necessarily needed for the area to be a future success Unimportant

32. 2040 RTP Leadership Symposium Funding our needs

33. Funding Needs • Level of investment needed to: • Maintain existing infrastructure • Strategically expand and operate • Define needs in context of projected revenue over life of 2040 transportation plan • Define gap/unmet needs • Scenario discussion to support best use of available funds given needs identified

34. Current Bridge Maintenance Funding Needs Total current needs = $105M

35. Long Term Bridge Maintenance Funding Needs Projected Bridge Conditions in 2040 Given Funding Level Total needs over life of plan = $322M

36. Current Pavement Maintenance Funding Needs

37. Long Term Pavement Maintenance Funding Needs Projected Conditions in 2040 Given Funding Level Baseline condition = 83% Total needs over life of plan = $1.38B

38. Total System Maintenance Needs How much will it cost to maintain existing transportation system, in current conditions, over life of long-range plan? $1.7 billion More than doubling current spending levels from 2035 Plan

39. New Investment Needs $7.0 billion How much will it cost to build, operate, and maintain all additional identified needs in the region?

40. Total Investment Needs $1.7 billion Existing System Maintenance $7.0 billion Additional Identified Needs $8.7 billion Total Needs

41. Revenue Availability And how much funding is actually available between now and 2040? $5.7 billion

42. Spending the Money $1.7B (MAINTAIN) $7.0B (EXPAND)

43. Spending the Money (continued) $5.7B (AVAILABLE)

44. Spending the Money (continued) $5.7B (AVAILABLE) FUNDED UNFUNDED $1.7B $4.0B $3.0B

45. Spending the Money (continued) $5.7B (AVAILABLE) UNFUNDED FUNDED $1.3B $1.7B $5.7B

46. Spending the Money (continued) $5.7B (AVAILABLE) UNFUNDED UNFUNDED FUNDED $0.5B $1.2B $4.5B $2.5B

47. Spending the Money (continued) Transit Capacity Road Capacity $5.3B (AVAILABLE) $4.5B (AVAILABLE) $0.5B $1.2B $4.5B $2.5B

48. Which approach do you believe is most important when considering the management of our transportation system? “Fix it first,” fully maintain what we have before adding to the transportation system Forego some maintenance to allow for more capacity projects

49. With the understanding that there won’t likely be sufficient funds for all identified needs, I’d be willing to defer some transportation maintenance needs for other transportation improvements. Strongly agree Agree Neither Disagree Strongly disagree

50. 2040 RTP Leadership Symposium intermission