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Current Regional Planning Practice in Reno, Sparks & Washoe County, Nevada. Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County Presentation to the 2011 Transportation Research Board Planning Applications Conference Reno, Nevada. About the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Current Regional Planning Practice in Reno, Sparks & Washoe County, Nevada
Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County
Presentation to the 2011 Transportation Research Board Planning Applications Conference
Reno, Nevada
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About the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County
• Metropolitan Planning Organization• Transit service provider• Roadway construction & maintenance
RAPID BRT Kietzke Lane Roundabout
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Regional Transportation Plan Update
• Develop community-based vision to address changing needs
• Promote livability & prosperity• Update travel demand model
Schedule
•March 2011 – Begin traffic model update•August 2011 – Develop goals & objectives• Spring 2012 – Develop alternatives•Fall 2012 – Complete draft RTP•Spring 2013 – Finalize RTP
California Ave Complete Street4th Street Station
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Complete Streets Program
• Designing roads for all transportation users:• Improves safety & health
– Reduced crashes by 30% on Wells Ave
• Enhances multimodal connectivity• Promotes economic development• Includes landscaping/beautification
Implementation
•Bike lanes added during road maintenance / resurfacing•Multimodal features included in new construction design•Bike/ped & ADA plan identify needs throughout community
Victorian Avenue Cycle Track Neil Road Complete Street
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Community Outreach
• Provide a wide variety of opportunities for residents & stakeholders to participate
• Incorporate community & agency input
• Ensure consistency with other area plans & policies
• Electronic & traditional outreach
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Corridor Studies
• Identify Multimodal Transportation Needs & Improvements– Safety– Bicycle & Pedestrian– Transit – Roadway & Traffic Operations – Link with Land Use/Economic Development
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Transit Oriented Development Corridors
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Virginia Street
• Resort corridor connecting– University of Nevada, Reno– Downtown– Truckee River– Resort Casinos– Convention Center– Meadowood Mall
• Major transportation corridor– 30,000 ADT
• Strong transit ridership– 5,000/day
– (14% Mode Split)
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RAPID
• BRT vehicles• Enhanced bus shelters• Increased ridership
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Street Car Concept
• Result of BRT and land use policies
• Promote walkability • Transit supportive land
uses• Encourage redevelopment• Attract high quality, high
density growth– Promote economic vitality
• High quality transit to serve attractions:
• Gaming, tourism, government, retail and educationPhase I
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Travel Demand Model Upgrade
• Key element of RTP update• Partnering with NDOT & TMRPA
to make traffic analysis more accessible & transparent– TMRPA allocating Consensus
Forecasts to the TAZ level– Public workshop/training to be
provided on model inputs & use
• Conversion to TransCAD– GIS interface– Enhances data sharing &
communication
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Sparks
Salt Lake City→
Reno
←Sacramento SEC
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RTC’s TDM
EMME based, traditional 4-stepVisitors Sub-model
806 TAZs w/380,000 populationDeveloped in 1992 by Barton-Ashman
Conversion from MinuTP to EMME/2 : 2003Major Calibration : 2005
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Q1. What if the SEC is not built?
Q2. What if the SEC build-out is phased?
Q3. Is there a relationship between the SEC and the
Pyramid Corridor?
Q4. How reliable is the TDM?
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QUESTION 1What if the SEC is not built?
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QUESTION 1What if the SEC is not built?
ANSWER By 2030, System Delay increases 10%
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QUESTION 2 What if the SEC build-out is phased?
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QUESTION 2 What if the SEC build-out is phased?
ANSWER Cost Efficiency will be low until SEC is complete
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QUESTION 3Is there a relationship between the SEC and the Pyramid
Corridor?
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QUESTION 3Do we still need the SEC ?
Isn’t it redundancy of the spending ?Who benefits from the SEC ?
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QUESTION 3Do we still need the SEC ?
Isn’t it redundancy of the spending ?Who benefits from the SEC ?
ANSWER Yes.No.
The benefits will stay in local area.
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QUESTION 4How reliable is the TDM?
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QUESTION 4How reliable is the TDM?
ANSWER Model Transparency, Openness
& Public Participation
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Communication, Consensus and Common Goal
NDOT, TMRPA, Cities, RTC and Local Planning Agencies
Cooperation and Teamwork
NDOT : Funding, and HPMS support TMRPA ; Socio-ec. data support under CF agreement
RTC: New ABM, ITS & field data support
New Organizations of Stakeholders
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Thank you and enjoy Northern Nevada!!
Amy Cummings, AICP/LEED APRTC
Peter Bang, Ph.D., AITRTC