TransportationPlanUpdate

Transportation Goals

AirQuality‐TransportationConformityTransportation conformity rules require a conformity determination with every major update or change to the Long Range Transportation Plan.  Conformity provides the link between the Regional Transportation Plan and the State Implementation Plan (SIP). SIPs establish control strategies and budgets for each pollutant and those budgets are then used to demonstrate conformity.The regional emissions analyses indicate that the 2040 Plan demonstrates conformity to the PM and 8‐hour ozone standards.

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2015Budget

2020 2022Budget

2022 2030 2040

404.4

238.2 261.3215.9 190.6 193.4

Tons/year

Analysis Year

PM 2.5

0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

2015Budget

2020 2022Budget

2022 2030 2040

12,865.5

6,284.6 6,270.65,246.3 3,662.6

3,251.4Tons/year

Analysis Year

NOX

FiscalConstraintAnalysisFor each mode, the costs of the 2016 through 2040 plan projects are balanced against projected revenues and, following the FAST Act requirements, are expressed in year of expenditure dollars.The fiscal constraints for each transportation mode are summarized below in millions of dollars.

SafetyandCongestionConditions

TransportationSystemandCongestionAnalysis

AlternativeTransportationModes

CommunityImpactAssessment

DefinitionofEnvironmentalJustice“Thefairtreatmentandmeaningfulinvolvementofallpeopleregardlessofrace,color,nationalorigin,orincomewithrespecttothedevelopment,implementationandenforcementofenvironmentallaws,regulationsandpolicies.Fairtreatmentsmeansthatnogroupofpeople,includingracial,ethnicorsocio‐economicgroupshouldbearadisproportionateshareofthenegativeenvironmentalconsequencesresultingfromindustrial,municipal,andcommercialoperationsortheexecutionoffederal,state,localandtribalprogramsandpolicies.”(U.S.EPAOfficeofEnvironmentalJustice)

MVRPC’sApproachThemethodsadoptedbyMVRPCtofulfillEJrequirementsfollowguidelinesbytheOhioDepartmentofTransportation(ODOT)andtherecommendationsoftheOhioEJTaskForce.Theapproachadoptsathreestepprocesstomeasuretheimpactofdevelopmentpatternsandthetransportationsystemondisadvantagedpopulations.

DistributionofEnvironmentalJusticePopulations

AverageTravelTimetoMajorFacilityinminutes

AverageTravelTimetoWorkinminutes

EnvironmentalMitigationAnalysis

EnvironmentalMitigationAnalysisThe Environmental Mitigation Analysis identifies the potential impacts of transportation projects proposed in the 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) on the Region’s environmental resources. 

The analysis began by categorizing the projects based on their significance for potential impacts on natural resources.

Significant Projects: road widening, new lanes, new interchanges, etc. Not Significant Projects: new turn lanes, traffic signals, realignments, etc.

Significant projects were analyzed for potential impacts and Not Significant ones were not. Significant projects that are included in the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and have environmental impact documentation were also excluded from this analysis as their actual impacts are already documented. Projects categorized as Significant and without environmental documentation on the TIP were mapped with various environmental resources. Projects that intersected these natural resources were identified as having the potential for environmental impact. 

WetlandsandScenicRivers

WatershedsandWellfields

EndangeredSpecies

CulturalFeatures

Parklands

SuperfundLocations

Environmental AnalysisClassification

Environmental AnalysisResults