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The year 2007 marked the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the first permanent English colony in North America at what is now known as Jamestown, Virginia. In preparation for this most recent in a series of anniversary events celebrated every 50 years since the early 1800s, a group of federal, state, and local agencies undertook the development of a multimodal transportation plan to accommodate the expected increases in visitation to the Jamestown–Williamsburg–Yorktown area, commonly referred to as “America’s Historic Triangle.” Under the general direction and leadership of the Virginia Department of Rail & Public Transportation, a group of public and private organizations formulated and implemented a visitor transportation plan for the region which fulfilled all defined transportation objectives. In addition to the Department of Rail & Public Transportation, the participants in this process included the Virginia Department of Transportation, the National Park Service, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, the City of Williamsburg, James City County, York County, the College of William and May, Williamsburg Area Transit Authority, Hampton Roads Transit, and a team of consulting planning and engineering firms. The resulting visitor transportation plan built upon existing visitor parking, shuttle bus services, and traveler information system elements to create a system to both link visitors to individual sites as well as to link major visitor attractions to each other. Many of the plan elements developed for the 400th Anniversary commemoration activities in 2007 have been retained and incorporated into the local public transportation system serving “America’s Historic Triangle.” This paper describes how the plan was developed, its implementation for the 400th Anniversary events, and its continuing evolution since 2007.

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English

13p

2010

12th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

Digital/other

CD-ROM; Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Parking facilities; Public private partnerships; Regional planning; Shuttle buses; Special events; Tourism; Transportation planning; Traveler information and communication systems

Jamestown (Virginia)

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jun 27 2013 2:04PM

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