MON/FAYETTE ROUTE 51 TO PITTSBURGH TRANSPORTATION PROJECT: A SUCCESS STORY IN INTEGRATING CONGESTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ANALYSIS, MAJOR INVESTMENT STUDY, AND NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT PROCESSES

The 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act placed new emphasis on transportation planning. In response, the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration issued Joint Statewide and Metropolitan Planning Regulations (23 C.F.R. Section 450). These regulations call for two studies, the congestion management system (CMS) analysis and the major investment study (MIS), which must be completed to analyze the best use of the existing transportation network and to determine whether and what transportation investments are needed in a metropolitan area. The intent is to use these studies as input to the metropolitan planning organization's long-range transportation plan. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) and the Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission (SPRPC) cooperatively developed and implemented an effective approach to navigate the Mon/Fayette Route 51 to Pittsburgh transportation project through a collaborative process integrating the CMS analysis and MIS. This approach also met the requirements of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT's) Preliminary Alternatives Analysis, one in a series of studies required under PennDOT's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing guidelines. PTC's goal to advance a preferred major investment alternative into the next phase of project development was accomplished when SPRPC endorsed the integrated CMS analysis/MIS and preliminary alternatives analysis report. Presented is a success story in the effort to integrate the metropolitan planning and NEPA processes at the project programming level. It is hoped that the planning and NEPA principles applied can serve as a model to advance other transportation projects.

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  • https://doi.org/10.3141/1617-19
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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1617, Land Use and Transportation Planning and Programming Applications.
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• Authors:
  • Shalkowski, J S
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 130-138
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1617
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; High occupancy vehicles; Highway planning; Investments; Long range planning; Management; Metropolitan planning organizations; Planning; Programming (Planning); Regional transportation; Traffic congestion; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
• Geographic Terms: Pennsylvania
• Old TRIS Terms: Investment planning; Management planning
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00755123
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309064627
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 23 1998 12:00AM