01044613

Component

Co-Planning is a term used to describe the integrated planning process used by the Cheyenne Metropolitan Planning Organization’s (MPO's) flagship project, PlanCheyenne. PlanCheyenne is a comprehensive plan for the Cheyenne Urban Area, updating a 1992 plan and several neighborhood-specific updates. The three elements that have helped to establish this plan as an effective tool for the community include taking a comprehensive look at the issues, communicating in an intuitive manner, and collaborating with multiple organizations for success. Previous planning efforts lacked the effective tools desired by staff to implement the plan. A truly comprehensive plan should include a focus on what the staff and community want to achieve with the plan, and provide tools to help achieve those goals. Additionally, the minimal incorporation of concepts from agencies and organizations beyond the MPO and City Planning Offices create an atmosphere where previous plans were disregarded as something required simply to meet federal regulations. By taking a comprehensive and inclusive approach, a plan can align diverse organizations with common goals to achieve success. Inherently, plans that are not well-organized and intuitive for the end-user do not effectively communicate the goals of the plan and become less useful as the original drafters of the plan depart from the organization. Innovative communication techniques have helped to create a format for the plan that is useful and intuitive, while efficiently transferring the ideas expressed within the plan. Integrated planning builds broad support for the concepts illustrated in the plan and provides an added layer of validity to the plan. By creating a collaborative process the plan, strategic defense of the plan during the adoption process becomes easier and increases the overall effectiveness of a plan. The keys to organizing and completing an innovative, effective and integrated plan hinge on the what the Cheyenne MPO terms “Co-Planning,” based on creating collaborative partnerships, communicating effectively and efficiently, and creating a product that is comprehensive in addressing the needs of the community. When properly implemented in a planning process, these elements can result in a plan that is successful in process and achievable in practice.

01044603

English

7p

2006

10th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

CD-ROM

City planning; Communication; Metropolitan planning organizations; Partnerships; Small cities

Cheyenne (Wyoming)

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Mar 23 2007 10:21AM

• 1995-2004 CARTS Pedestrian/Bicyclist Crash Analysis
• A Pavement Management System for County Roads in the State of Alabama
• Application of an Internet-Based Travel Survey in a Medium-Sized Community
• Applying Value Methodology to Metropolitan Transportation Planning
• Better, Stronger Faster; How Oblique Aerial Imagery Is Changing the Face of Transportation Planning
• Bozeman Bicycle Network Plan
• Comparison and Evaluation of Simplified Transportation Project Selection and Prioritization Methodologies for Use by Small and Medium Sized Planning Agencies
• Design Considerations to Mitigate Non-Response in Regional Household Travel Surveys
• Developing a Consistent, Flexible, and Defensible Methodology for State and Regional Transportation Planning
• Development of Travel Demand Modeling Tools for Small Area Planning Purposes
• Discrete Event Simulation of Forecasted Non-Urban Freight Movement
• Evaluating the Relative Safety of Access Management Treatments in Micro-Simulation
• Getting Innovative Traffic Forecasting Model Networks "In Shape" Quickly Using GIS Datasets
• Highway Ranking Model
• Implementation of a Public Transportation System in Casper, Wyoming
• Importance of Modeling Ozone Formation Attributable to Rural Interstate Traffic
• Innovative Financing at the Local Level: Project Funding for a Regional Transportation Agency
• Integrating Access Management into Local Transportation Planning
• La Entrada al Pacifico: Viability and Potential Impacts on the Odessa-Midland, Texas Area and Other Small Communities
• Local Road Safety Audits: A New Approach to an Old Problem
• Microsimulation for Transportation Planning for Small Communities
• New Approach for Updating Highway Functional Classifications
• Planning Analysis Toolbox for Small Urban Areas in North Carolina
• Potential Use of GPS Data for Calibrating Travel Demand Models
• Safe Routes to School in Superior, WI and Duluth, MN
• Safety Conscious Planning for Small and Medium Size Urban Areas
• Six Hints for Better Public Process
• Strategic Transportation, Environmental Planning Process for Urbanizing Places (STEP UP)
• Successful Use of Public Involvement Tools - Johns Pass Bridge Project
• Supporting Transportation Planning in Small MPOs Through Partnerships and Innovative Methods
• The Bridge Between NEPA and Corridor Studies: The Story of Northern Bridge Corridor Study
• US-280 Access Management - Managing Small Town Economics
• Using Simplified Regression Analysis in Financial Planning for an MTP, or Seeing the Forest for the Trees
• Web-Based Delivery of Geospatial and Transportation Data for a Rural Intelligent Transportation Systems Project
• When Big Projects Come to Smaller Places: The Communication Challenge
• Which Came First? The SR 386 Area Study