Transportation Planning

Regional Transportation Plan

Project Overview

In the fall of 2009, the FRCOG began to update the region's Long-Range Regional Transportation Plan. The last update was completed in 2007. The plan is a comprehensive document that provides the basis for transportation planning in the region. The plan reviews all types of transportation services and infrastructure, including roadways, passenger rail, freight transport, airports, bus services, sidewalks, and on and off-road bike routes. For each topic, the plan details current conditions and identifies key issues and assets. The plan uses a 25-year time horizon to project future population trends transportation needs, and financial constraints, and makes recommendations for future transportation improvements based on these forecasts. The plan recommendations also reflect sustainable development principles and the primary transportation goals established for the region. These goals include: enhancing the mobility of people and goods in the region; improving safety; maintaining rural character; preserving current transportation infrastructure; and supporting a balanced transportation system that provides alternatives to automobile and truck travel.

The creation of the Long-Range Transportation Plan includes extensive public participation. The sections of the plan are reviewed by the Franklin Regional Planning Board, composed of representatives from different towns, and by the Franklin County Transportation Planning Organization made up of state, regional and local representatives. Public information meetings on the plan are held in different parts of the county, and the public can comment on any aspect of the plan during its development and during the public comment period. Public input is also used to establish the main recommendations of the plan and to identify the top three priority future transportation projects for the region.

Current Activities

FRCOG staff are currently gathering information on the condition of the transportation network, and conducting outreach. Three public information meetings were held in January and February, 2010. In addition, staff are attending other meetings througout the region to gain input for the Plan. Draft chapters of the Plan will be posted on this website as they become available, and anyone is welcome to submit questions or comments about the Plan or potential projects here. You may also participate in a survey to provide input for the plan. A full draft of the Plan is expected in the Fall of 2010, at which time it will be released for a formal public review and comment period. The Final Plan will be reveiwed and endorsed in early 2011.

Future Plans

Plan recommendations will be pursued through the Franklin annual transportation work program. A full update of the Regional Transportation Plan will take place again in 2015, and will include new demographic information from the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census.

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This page was last updated on 2/11/10 .

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