A Countywide Planning Framework to Identify Continuous and Connected Multimodal Arterial Networks

Over the past decade, the Complete Streets movement has revolutionized transportation planning by considering how all modes use roadways collectively. While many cities have developed roadway typology to inform design of roadway improvements, these typologies do not help agencies prioritize amongst the needs of multimodal users. Furthermore, most typologies are prepared by individual agencies ending at jurisdictional boundaries and do not offer opportunities for continuous and connected networks across jurisdictional lines. Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC) developed a countywide planning framework that created a typology for its arterial roadways based on two factors: land use context and modal function (transit, pedestrian, bicycle, auto, and goods movement). This framework then prioritizes the modal users on the County’s arterial roadways based on a tiering system developed from land use context and layered (or more accurately nested) modal networks. The framework applies multimodal performance measures to identify roadway segments with existing and future improvement needs for high priority modes. This needs assessment enables Alameda CTC to identify needed improvement areas or cross-jurisdictional corridor projects that would establish a system of continuous and connected multimodal networks across the county.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB50 Standing Committee on Transportation Planning Applications. Alternate title: Countywide Planning Framework to Identify Continuous and Connected Multimodal Arterial Networks.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Suthanthira, Saravana
  • Wu, Daniel
  • Ridgway, Matthew
  • Martin, Francisco
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
• Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Complete streets; Networks; Performance measurement; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Typology
• Geographic Terms: Alameda County (California)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01629922
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 17-03787
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 27 2017 9:26AM