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Transportation - Regional Planning
Regional planning is definitely more 'process' than it is 'product.'
- It is coordination between jurisdictions, citizens, businesses, and other interests to identify a direction for the region's transportation system and maintaining a course to get there.
- It is exploring issues and opportunities, and evaluating the consequences of choices both big and small.
- It is weighing alternatives and prioritizing between important and sometimes competing options, making difficult decisions, and at times, having to reconsider a decision.
- It is looking at transportation and seeing not just cars and buses, but community livability, environmental quality, social equity, fiscal responsibility, economic vitality – across whole generations.
Regional transportation planning is the process of looking at the transportation system as a whole, without regard to jurisdiction or travel mode, and making decisions that – over time – result in more access, more choices, and more compatibility with our natural and social environment.
But even processes need products. This section includes the products that document this process for TRPC. The Unified Planning Work Program provides an annual overview of the regional transportation planning process, and how the various pieces fit together. At the other end of the spectrum, the Regional Transportation Plan documents the vision, goals, and policies that guide the planning process and the evolution of the regional transportation system over 20 or more years. 2002 will see an update to the Regional Transportation Plan, and this section will provide an on-going look at the process and issues related to that update.
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