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Title: IMPLEMENTING THE LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION POLICY IN OREGON'S 1999 HIGHWAY PLAN
Accession Number: 00939821
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: Policies in the 1999 Oregon Highway Plan that link land use and transportation are changing the way the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) manages the state highway system. ODOT's experience offers a good case study of implementation requirements and problems. The Oregon Highway Plan, adopted in March 1999 as an element of the Oregon Transportation Plan, recognizes the need for compact, pedestrian friendly, community centers and attempts to balance community needs for accessibility in these centers with the need to protect mobility outside the centers. Implementation of the policies has required training, coordination, partnerships, technical assistance, funding, leadership and persistence. To provide for accessibility, the Highway Plan's Land Use and Transportation Policy encourages the designation of Special Transportation Areas (STAs), Urban Business Areas (UBAs) and Commercial Centers. In an STA, the state highway goes through a downtown or community center. An STA's primary objective is to provide access to community activities, businesses and residences. An STA designation is a joint state and local process involving agreement on a management plan that addresses street design, travel times, traffic impacts and circulation. A UBA designation recognizes existing areas and future nodes of commercial activity and encourages good bicycle, pedestrian and vehicular circulation internal to the development. A Commercial Center encourages commercial activities to cluster in a large center with limited direct access to the state highway. To protect mobility over time, the Highway Plan calls for classifying high speed, high volume highways (non-interstates) as Expressways. Implementation of the Highway Plan depends on ODOT planning, technical services and region staff. After the plan's adoption, the planning staff held training sessions with the affected parts of the agency and conducted six regional workshops sponsored by the Association of Oregon Counties and League of Oregon Cities for local government officials. Staff also prepared a handbook with a model scope of work and model agreement to facilitate the management plans. The Oregon Transportation Commission's (OTC's) leadership has been key to implementation of the plan. The OTC was directly involved in developing the plan and demands regular progress reports on policy implementation. That persistence focuses staff attention on STAs, UBAs, and Expressways, linking land use and transportation.
Supplemental Notes: The CD-ROM contains the proceedings of the sixth, seventh and eighth conferences. The eighth conference proceedings were published in October 2001.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Gassaway, C HEditors: Donnelly, RBennett, GPagination: p. 380-386
Publication Date: 2002
Conference:
Eighth TRB Conference on the Application of Transportation Planning Methods
Location:
Corpus Christi, Texas Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Mar 24 2003 12:00AM
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