00789785

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Michigan's first Major Investment Study (MIS) focused on access improvements to the Ambassador Bridge. The Ambassador Bridge/Gateway Project represents a public/private cooperative effort. Working with the City of Detroit, community, and private interests, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) have been cosponsoring a planning study to address transportation and related land use needs associated with access improvements to the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit, Michigan with Windsor, Ontario. The Ambassador Bridge is privately owned and operated in the United States by the Detroit International Bridge Company (DIBC). This project specifically addresses the need for long-term congestion mitigation and direct access improvements between the Ambassador Bridge and Michigan's State trunkline highways, which include I-96 and I-75 of the Interstate System. This project is unique for several reasons: (1) it represents a cooperative effort with a privately-owned international bridge; (2) it involves an ethnic neighborhood - Mexicantown - that in addition to a cooperative effort was protected consistent with the President's Order on Environmental Justice; and (3) it involved a consortium of state, local and federal agencies and the private sector represented by a Steering Committee that provided guidance throughout the project. The project included an intense public involvement effort. Public meetings were combined with numerous one-on-one outreach efforts. Alternative access design concepts were progressively developed both in number and scope from illustrative concepts, to practical alternatives, and finally resulting in a preferred alternative. Item after item was debated at the Project Steering Committee meetings, which the public was invited to attend, and did! The resulting MIS was completed months ahead of schedule; with public support and a community that endorsed the project openly; and a package of $100 million in highway access improvements without displacing any buildings within an urban setting. The disappointments include the inability to satisfy all the geometric design guidelines and standards ascribed to by the MDOT. The project area was so tight, and the goal of minimal neighborhood impact so important that exceptions to design standards will be required in several places. The Ambassador Bridge/Gateway MIS is a major success. It is the first approved MIS in Michigan. It demonstrates that cooperation and communication are key to resolving complex issues as part of the MIS process.

The proceedings are available only on CD-ROM.

English

10p

1997

Sixth TRB Conference on the Application of Transportation Planning Methods

Access; Cooperation; Ethnic groups; Geometric design; Highway design; Improvements; Land use; Mass communication; Public participation; Traffic mitigation; Transportation planning

Ambassador Bridge (Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario)

Major investment study

Michigan

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

NTL, TRIS, TRB

Mar 15 2000 12:00AM

• 21ST CENTURY ISSUES FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS
• A NEW TOOL FOR BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS IN EVALUATING TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES
• A PRIORITY SYSTEM FOR MULTIMODAL AND INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
• ADAPTABLE ASSIGNMENT
• AN ANALYSIS OF DISCRETE STATED RESPONSES TO PARKING PRICING BASED TRANSPORTATION CONTROL MEASURES
• AN INTEGRATED GIS SOLUTION FOR ESTIMATING TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS: A FLORIDA EXAMPLE
• AN INTEGRATED TRANSPORTATION-LAND USE MODEL FOR INDIANA
• ANALYSIS OF STATED PREFERENCE SURVEY DATA FOR RIVER-CROSSING TRAVEL BEHAVIOR IN THE PORTLAND/VANCOUVER METROPOLITAN AREA
• CASE STUDIES IN THE APPLICATION OF ADJUSTED CENSUS DATA FOR PLANNING PROJECTS
• DISTRIBUTING CONGESTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INFORMATION USING THE WORLD WIDE WEB
• FLORIDA FIVE-YEAR STATEWIDE TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS: A POLICY DRIVEN PLANNING APPROACH
• INTERMODAL GROUND ACCESS TO AIRPORTS: A PLANNING GUIDE - A GOOD START
• LARGE-SCALE TRAFFIC MICROSIMULATION FROM AN MPO PERSPECTIVE
• MAKING DO WITH LESS: CALIBRATING A TRUE TRAVEL DEMAND MODEL WITHOUT TRADITIONAL SURVEY DATA
• MICHIGAN'S CONGESTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• MIS CASE STUDY: I-94 REHABILITATION PROJECT - DETROIT, MICHIGAN
• MODELING CARPOOL AND TRANSIT PARK-AND-RIDE LOTS
• PLANNING LEE COUNTY'S VARIABLE PRICING PROGRAM
• PRESCRIBING THE FUTURE, NOT PREDICTING THE FUTURE: ARE OUR PLANNING METHODS UP TO THE CHALLENGE?
• PRESENTATION OF COMPARATIVE DATA FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING STUDIES
• QUANTIFYING SPECIAL GENERATOR RIDERSHIP IN TRANSIT ANALYSES
• REVIEW OF LAND USE MODELS: THEORY AND APPLICATION
• SAFETY BENEFITS OF ACCESS SPACING
• SOCIOECONOMIC FORECASTING MODEL FOR THE TRI-COUNTY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
• THE BALANCE OF DECISION SUPPORT: MDOT'S INTERMODAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• THE COMMUNITY OPTIONS MODEL: USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DECISION MAKING
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCIAL PLANS FOR REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLANS - METHODS, DATA AND ISSUES
• TRANSPORTATION DATA QUALITY: WHAT IT MEANS AND HOW TO GET IT
• TRANSPORTATION SERVICE CENTER ANALYSIS USING GIS TECHNOLOGY
• URBAN DESIGN, URBAN FORM, AND EMPLOYEE TRAVEL BEHAVIOR
• USING GPS FOR MEASURING HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL IN PRIVATE VEHICLES
• VARIATIONS IN PREDICTED EMPLOYMENT-RELATED TRIPMAKING CAUSED BY ALTERNATE SYSTEMS OF JOB CLASSIFICATION