CDTC’s Community and Transportation Linkage Planning Program (the Linkage Program) provides consultant or CDTC staff technical assistance for joint regional-local planning initiatives that link transportation and land use. It is a key implementation activity of New Visions, the regional long range transportation plan, which is predicated on reducing the growth of vehicular travel in the Capital Region. The Linkage Program is also the cornerstone of CDTC’s local planning assistance and public outreach efforts. CDTC’s transportation and land use policy is that good site and community design are essential to achieving regional transportation system goals. The Linkage Program is one of the most significant cooperative regional efforts in the nation to reflect, in practice, what representatives of the region’s counties, cities, towns and villages as well as state and local transportation providers have adopted as policy.
CDTC has funded a total of 59 collaborative, jointly-funded studies over the past eight years. Study sponsors have included 34 separate urban, suburban and rural municipalities and counties as well as not-for-profits and other public entities. Roughly $4.0 million in federal, state and local funds have been committed to the Linkage Program since its inception in 2000.
The next Linkage Program solicitation is expected to occur in September 2008. Check back for more information in the future.