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The SWCP approach places a greater focus on system preservation for the most significant transportation corridors and on modes and facilities of statewide and/or regional significance. There are obvious perceived differences in how multimodal issues should be addressed as part of any statewide transportation planning process, depending on factors such as • Level of multimodal activity, • Urban versus rural issues, • Population density, • Financial resource, • Overall state political priorities, and • Perceived divisions between public- and private-sector responsibilities.
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8 A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning Purpose of SWCP Approaches in Selected States Michigan: Corridors of significance delineate where the most critical movements of goods and people occur. The purpose of the plan is to create a statewide strategic multimodal plan for an intelligent, inclusive, integrated, and international transportation system that is socially, environmentally, and economically responsible.
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3. Identify study corridors.
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10 A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning Involvement of Non-Metropolitan Officials in Transportation Planning "The involvement of local officials should be one of the major elements in the state transportation agency's planning and programming process. Their input can provide important information, such as local knowledge about future economic development activities or a different perspective on needs, priorities, evaluation criteria, and potential impacts.
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This process will likely be based on both quantitative and subjective criteria -- that is, crucial corridors will be defined by the periodic collection and analysis of condition and performance data, the estimation of travel flows and expected future travel demands, or the function the corridors serve in broader policy perspective. In many cases, a statewide strategic transportation network is identified as the target of state investment, so being on this network constitutes one of the most important criteria for a potential corridor study.
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It is likely that the common vision, goals, and performance measures for a corridor study will closely relate to statewide transportation planning goals as determined through the planning process. Problem Identification The rationale for conducting individual corridor analyses in the first place is to provide specific attention to the needs and issues in a particular corridor.
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There are a variety of levels for conducting corridor analyses as part of a statewide transportation planning process, ranging from major corridor studies to lower levels of analysis. To provide additional guidance, Appendix B identifies and discusses three levels of effort of analysis.
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Development of Technical Guidance Section 3 of this Guidebook presents a "checklist" matrix of the steps and tasks for undertaking an SWCP process, along with a discussion of the reason and some further explanation of the issues for each task. 14 A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning Linkage Between Corridor Planning and the NEPA Process Federal planning regulations provide the option to use a "corridor or subarea study" as a tool for linking planning and NEPA.
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