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Appendix C - Applying Conventional Planning Concepts Toward a New Paradigm
Appendix C - Applying Conventional Planning Concepts Toward a New Paradigm
Pages 97-106
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Regional Planning Concepts Background regional patterns of land use, demographics, and travel are a major determinant of success for new paradigm corridor implementation and performance. These have historically and will continue to play an important role in determining whether one or more multimodal corridors can be supported and what configuration is best for a particular corridor.
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• The core areas and inner rings of large metropolitan areas of a size exceeding historic thresholds for transit service1 should be built-out, with limited vacant or otherwise available land for assembling a right-of-way, let alone for easy land development to begin the task of reshaping regional growth patterns. • The relative spatial distribution of people and activities around the urban center(s)
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This possibility makes the new paradigm multimodal corridor concept attractive as a means to capture and manage regional growth and travel congestion simultaneously. The background arrangement of activity centers and their relationships to existing transportation facilities often seems to preclude transit investments.
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Taking advantage of these tradeoffs, opportunities emerge to move the corridor toward more balanced multimodalism by introducing transit access at key locations and clustering corridor growth at these points to stimulate patronage and transitsupportive activity patterns. Freeway facilities with large interchange spacings optimize speed and reduce congestion bottlenecks by reducing the amount of merging and weaving that occurs at these access points.
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As regional growth proceeds and congestion effects accumulate over time, supportive policies should be in place to allow low-density nodes to transform themselves, providing more opportunities for density and mix of use on the land use side and increasing transit service options to include new access points on the transportation side. Right-of-Way and Design Considerations Right-of-way must be acquired for the construction of transportation facilities, and topography and land uses will constrain the options and opportunities.
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The experience documented in several multimodal freeway corridor case studies demonstrates that the actions of key individuals can be the difference between success and failure in guiding a multimodal corridor project to completion and that these leaders typically rely on the same tools available in most contexts in order to achieve their objectives. General guidance would be to • Use routine processes to advance a region's multimodal potential, • Focus on quality design and service, • Identify potential linkages, sharing, and trades, • Prioritize access area land uses and connectivity, • Identify flexible and incremental multimodal opportunities.
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Corridor Finance/ Management Schedule-Free Transit Service …facilitates user trip planning and improves travel time reliability by implementing high frequency service on key corridors and establishing headways rather than arrival and departure times …provides a model for dependable transit service appropriate to "finalphase" high-intensity multimodal corridor development. Provides an incremental improvement option with high-patronage rapid bus transit Transit Service Planning User Information Systems …facilitates user trip planning and travel response by supplying real-time information on sources of delay or changes in travel options …supports informed mode choice and real-time mid-trip mode transfer decisions to better exploit the reliability benefit of the multimodal system.
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…monetizes the expected benefit of multimodal development in supporting sustainable growth and links this to the funding requirements to let such investment happen. Corridor Finance; Transit-Oriented Development Joint Development …encompasses isolated agreement and broad authority for cost and/or revenue sharing arrangements between transit agencies or local governments and private developers.
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Tool/Approach Use Relevance for Multimodal Corridor Development Common Area of Application Express and Limited Bus Service … combines travel on segments of freeway and parallel arterial facilities, maximizing HOV and transit priority infrastucture. …can support constituencies for transit service in undeveloped and growing markets, including low-density land use environments.
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An obvious impediment to success arises from limited experience with planning and implementing multimodal projects. A benefit of flexible approaches is that there is an opportunity to develop the proficiency of planners and managers as they develop the skills and relationships required for successful collaboration.
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