IV.
IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING
TASK 4.07
Transportation
CDTC staff continues to work with the Access Transit
staff and county agencies to assure success of the brokerage. CDTC and CDTA staff will continue in 2004-05
to seek additional brokerage opportunities in other service areas.
CDTC continues to assist CDTA in its development of
several related initiatives, including the successful regional program using
state funds (Transportation Assistance to Needy Families) and the federal Jobs
Access / Reverse Commute program. These
efforts will continue.
A review of Special Transportation Needs treatment in
New Visions will produce material for discussion in the New Visions 2030
forums.
TASK 4.17 Arterial
Management Planning
Formal arterial management efforts were modest during 2003-04. Staff expects to revisit various CDTC
arterial management guidelines in 2004-05, including 'standards' for arterial
capacity and levels-of-service.
Additionally, work will begin on an urban arterial version of the
"level of compatibility" indices developed in 1995 for suburban
settings.
NYSDOT and CDTC, along with CDTA, the
NYSTA and other major players, completed development of a "regional
architecture" for the Capital District ITS deployment in 2003-04.
TASK 4.62 Transit Operations Planning
Further development of best bus
concepts will continue in 2004-05. The
further articulation of a full build scenario for Bus Rapid Transit in the NY5
corridor will take place through a consultant contract executed in 2003-04; an
"incremental build" scenario is funded in the 2001-06 TIP and will be
progressed as well. In 2003-04,
attention was directed to BRT aspects of TIP project A341,
All of CDTA's
staff planning charges are included under this task.
TASK 4.67 Bikeway / Pedestrian
Facility Planning
The Bike and Pedestrian Transportation
Task Force remained active during 2003-04.
Activities and products included provision of technical support to the
Saratoga Heritage Trail program and involvement in CDTC's
Spot Improvement Program, Linkage planning and Greenway contract and TIP
issues. A major effort has been work to
update the “Tool Box” adopted as part of the New Visions plan. Candidates for addition to the priority
network have been reviewed, and subcommittees have helped with the overall
effort. The group revisited the Mohawk-Hudson
bike map and updated. It will be
published in 2004-05.
Under this task heading, CDTC staff
will continue to offer community assistance related to bike and pedestrian
planning issues, including the broader category of "traffic calming"
options. Additionally, CDTC will
continue its cooperative work with county traffic safety committees and the
Governor's Traffic Safety Board to coordinate attention on bike and pedestrian
safety issues.
TASK 4.85 Staffing for
the
NYSDOT opened the regional
TASK 4.72 TIP Project
Planning and Development Work (TIP funded)
NYSDOT continues project planning and
development work for a number of projects on the CDTC TIP. This work will define the range of feasible
alternatives to be considered in preliminary engineering, based on traffic
operations, cost, and ROW impacts. Among
the projects being studied are the
TASK
4.97 TIP Development,
Monitoring and Update
During 2003-04, the TIP was maintained through numerous
amendments and publication of a "real time" TIP on CDTC's web site. The
2003-08 TIP was adopted in June of 2003, including formal action on both a
three-year and five-year program. Work will
began in the summer of 2002 toward development of a 2005-10 TIP. This effort will need to incorporate policy
products of NYSDOT’s transformation process, as well
as address funding levels related to TEA-21 reauthorization. The TIP update is expected to involve full
solicitation and evaluation of candidate projects. Internet resources will again assist in this
effort, as CDTC will publish application material on its web site, and maintain
a running draft with supporting summary tables as the new TIP is
assembled. The draft will be released by
March 2005 for final approval in May and incorporation into a Statewide TIP by
October 2005. As with the 2003-08 TIP,
examination of energy / CO2 impacts will be included in project and program
evaluation. The
existing TIP will be maintained through amendments over the coming year.