STARTING A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION

As urban areas grow, they eventually fill up the central core cities and often subsume neighboring towns and cities that were previously separate. Cross-border travel patterns thus defy service at the municipal scale, requiring instead that large regions containing many jurisdictions work together. The process is described by which the jurisdictions of the 13-county, 100-mi region surrounding Charlotte, North Carolina, formed a new superregional transportation planning organization, larger than metropolitan planning organizations and counties, across two states. The emerging need for such agencies is reviewed, and the Charlotte organization--the Carolinas Transportation Compact (CTC)--is described in detail. A strong project-oriented work program, a neutral host, advocacy instead of operating roles, local funding, and galvanizing issues are necessary to success. The future of CTC is bright because it has developed solid complementary working relationships with state and local governments and provides a forum for the pursuit of cooperative regional solutions to regional problems.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1364, Transportation Planning, Programming, Land Use, and Applications of Geographic Information Systems. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
• Authors:
  • Floyd, Neal D
  • Newsome, Tracy
  • Drymon, David
  • Hartgen, David T
  • Timmerman, H E
• Publication Date: 1992

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 53-62
• Monograph Title: Transportation planning, programming, land use, and applications of geographic information systems
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1364
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Governments; Intergovernmental relations; Local government; Metropolitan planning organizations; Regional planning; Regional transportation; State government; Transportation planning
• Geographic Terms: Charlotte (North Carolina); United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Carolinas transportation compact
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00626921
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309054036
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 22 1993 12:00AM