PennPlan Moves! Pennsylvania Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan 2000-2025

1. PennPlan Moves!Pennsylvania Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan 2000-2025

2. What is PennPlan? PennPlan is Pennsylvania’s Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan. It is a decision support tool for PennDOT and its planning partners. PennPlan is: • A 25-year blueprint • Corridor-based • The result of an innovative public outreach program • Based on the priorities of Pennsylvania’s county and regional planning partners • Multi-modal/Inter-modal

3. Why is the Plan Needed? • To identify and clarify specific transportation policies. • To coordinate regional priorities from statewide and interstate perspectives. • To provide the framework for measuring the implementation of long term policies. • To provide a direct relationship between long term policies and the short term programs and services that PennDOT and its partners deliver.

4. Policy Planning Programming Proj. Develop. Federal Policy for Environment and Transport Governor’s Policy PennDOT Policy Plan Other rules & Regulations Corridor Assessments and Project Needs Studies - Federal and State Environmental Reviews and Approvals - Engineering Design - Construction Twelve Year Program (1) Transportation Improvement Programs (2) PennPlan 2000 & Annual PennPlan Score Card & Simulation - Assessments Statewide Transportation Improvement Programs (4) Capital and State Budgets (3)

5. Existing Conditions (Data Collection & Analysis) • Social • Economic • Demographic • Transportation System • Land Use PennDOT Rules, Regulations, Issue Specific Plans, Standards Public Involvement Phase 1 (Data Collection & Analysis) Federal Rules & Regulations – Mandates and Funding Allocations • PennPlan Deliberation & Consensus • Partners • Public Input Phase 2 • PennDOT Bureaus • Federal agencies • Other constituencies Goals Objectives Performance Measures Corridors & Their Objectives Targets • Perspectives (Research) • Travel Demand • Environment • Land Use • Economic Development • Partnerships • Institutional Framework • Technology • Finance • Revisions & Updates for Statewide and Corridor Components • New goals • New objectives • Existing conditions at subsequent times • Major new events • New data for public involvement • Needs assessments by corridor and population segments • New research evidence • Historical Trends & Events (Data Collection & Analysis) • System Supply • Travel Demand • Institution • Federal & State Funding • Land Use Yearly Feedback & Exogenous to PennPlan Global, Federal, Statewide, and Regional Events/Changes and Other Factors Public Involvement Phase 3 Data Collection - Yearly Evaluation & Score card - Needs Assessment and Project Impact Evaluation - Other Evidence of Performance and PennPlan Research in Special Studies

6. Who Uses the Long Range Plan? • State Transportation Decision Makers • State Transportation Commission • Regional Planning Partners • Transportation Customers • PennDOT

7. PennPlan’s Relationship to Regional and Local Planning PennPlan is built on the foundation of the long range plans of Pennsylvania’s Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Local Development Districts, and the county comprehensive plans through a synthesis of these many plans. PennPlan: • Attempts to find common ground throughout the State and translates emerging themes into statewide policy. • Coordinates multi-regional improvements to ensure corridor consistency. • Elevates local public involvement activities to a statewide basis. • Serves as input for future local and regional planning activities.

8. A Starting Point Five basic, overriding principles were established, and were adhered to in the development of the Plan. Planmust be: • Concise. • Written in understandable language. • Useable. • Corridor-based. • The success in implementing the Plan must be easily measured.

9. PennPlan — Table of Contents • Introduction • Public Input • Visions of the Future • Existing Conditions • Perspectives • Statewide Goals & Objectives • Statewide Corridors • Conclusion

10. Public Input Key Objective of Public Involvement Process • To provide an opportunity to all residents to voice their opinions and concerns; • To identify the best combinations of values representing their needs and desires; • To geographically represent the state; and • To create a plan that is understandable to all

11. Public Involvement Research Design “Product Development” “Test Marketing” “Bringing to Market” Phase I : public input and suggestions were collected before the plan was written Phase II : “did we get it right?” Phase III : extensive outreach program to inform and educate the public about the plan.

12. TOTAL Suburban Rural Ag/Dairy Appointed Urban Elected Officials Visionary Millennials Professional Tourism Business Auto Truck 0 0 0% 0% 0% 52 % Populations Surveyed 0

13. Visionaries Input • http://www.diagnosticsplus.com/vissum.htm • http://www.diagnosticsplus.com/UrbanLandArticle.htm

14. Spatial Distribution of Public Involvement Resident Respondents Legend Rural Suburban Urban

15. Importance / Grade Matrix

16. M = MOBILITY A high degree of mobility is enjoyed Pennsylvania; this should not be diminished. O = OPTIONS Transportation is too “unimodal” with a focus on the car. Options should be provided, promoted and linked seamlessly. V = VOICES Public involvement, the voices of constituencies, must be a major focus of transportation planning. E = EFFICIENCY Transportation systems must generate the most benefits per resources expended. E = ENVIRONMENTTransportation should have minimal negative effect on the environment - it should be sustainable. E = EQUITYTransportation should not give disproportionate advantages or disadvantages to any group. E = ECONOMYTransportation must maintain and promote economic development. S = SAFETY Transportation systems should be designed to maximize safety.

17. Statewide Goals • Promote safety of the transportation system. • Improve the environment. • Retain jobs and expand economic opportunities. • Make transportation decisions that support land use planning objectives. • Maintain, upgrade, and improve the transportation system. • Inform and involve the public and improve customer service. • Advance regional and corridor-based planning. • Develop transportation alternatives and manage demand. • Promote smooth, easy connections between transportation alternatives. • Ensure accessibility of the system and mobility for everyone.

18. E = ENVIRONMENT E = EFFICIENCY V = VOICES M = MOBILITY O = OPTIONS E = ECONOMY E = EQUITY S = SAFETY Moves Themes/Statewide Goals Matrix

19. Make transportation decisions that support land use planning objectives. Maintain, upgrade, and improve the transportation system. Develop transportation alternatives and manage demand. Promote smooth and easy connections between transportation alternatives. Promote safety of the transportation system. Retain jobs and expand economic opportunities. Inform and involve the public and improve customer service. Advance regional and corridor-based planning. Ensure accessibility and mobility for everyone. Improve the environment.

20. Make transportation decisions that support land use planning objectives. Maintain, upgrade, and improve the transportation system. Inform and involve the public and improve customer service. Develop transportation alternatives and manage demand. Promote smooth and easy connections between transportation alternatives. Promote safety of the transportation system. Retain jobs and expand economic opportunities. Advance regional and corridor-based planning. Ensure accessibility and mobility for everyone. Improve the environment.

21. Make transportation decisions that support land use planning objectives. Maintain, upgrade, and improve the transportation system. Inform and involve the public and improve customer service. Develop transportation alternatives and manage demand. Promote smooth and easy connections between transportation alternatives. Retain jobs and expand economic opportunities. Advance regional and corridor-based planning. Ensure accessibility and mobility for everyone. Promote safety of the transportation system. Improve the environment.

27. Statewide Corridors

28. The Mountaintop Corridor This corridor connects Reading and Pottsville to Sunbury. Like corridor 27, this corridor traverses the heart of Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region and provides access to the tourism industry of northeastern Pennsylvania. • Objectives: • Provide intermodal opportunities along the corridor. • Implement intelligent transportation systems along the corridor.

29. What’s Next? • FuturePennPlanactivitiesinclude: • Establishing a baseline to measure future performance • Implementation • Performance reports • Continued public involvement • Future plan updates as needed

30. Post-PennPlan Work • Annual Performance Report – discuss 2000, 2001, 2002 • Implementation: http://www.trafficpd.com/Projects/Statewide.htm (accessed Sep. 2005) • Regional Planning input = http://www.ntrpdc.com/pdfs/ExecSummary.pdf (accessed Sep. 2005)

31. A Review of Statewide Strategic Planning • http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_syn_326.pdf