Welcome To Our Transportation Department!

Our Transportation department works to meet the requirements of three Federal mandates: publication of a Long-Range (20-year) Transportation Plan (updated every three years); establishment of a Short-Range (4-year) Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) (updated on a two-year cycle); and development of a Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP), which identifies transportation planning activities underway throughout the region. These activities range from data systems and modeling to special transportation studies to air quality activities.

In 2007, SPC worked to advance the region’s 2007- 2010 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), which evaluates the region’s projects in the context of limited resources, resulting in a prioritized list of highway and transit projects programmed for advancement over a four-year period. Individual project phases selected for the TIP are responsive to a range of empirical data, specialized studies and technical analysis.

Also during 2007, a survey of transit users and non-users was completed in cooperation with the region’s transit operators. The project provided detailed information about public transportation travel within the 10-county region. In addition to providing SPC the data necessary to update its travel demand model, the surveys provided the transit operators a snapshot of their service area, including ridership demographics, ridership patterns and household characteristics. Expansion of SPC’s model to cover the 10-county region was completed in 2007. The expanded model was used to support evaluation of Project Region Scenarios. The models enhance the ability to forecast the effects of transportation

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