Agenda posted before 5:00 PM, September 29, 2016

Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting

Conference Rooms 2 and 3, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA

October 6, 2016, 10:00 AM
(Estimated duration: 2 hours and 25 minutes, expected ending at 12:25 PM)

Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions, 5 minutes

2. Public Comments, 10 minutes

3. Chairs Report, 5 minutes

4. Committee Chairs Reports, 5 minutes

5. Regional Transportation Advisory Council Report, 5 minutes

6. Executive Directors Report, 5 minutes

7. Action Item: Approval of Past Meeting Minutes, 5 minutes

a. Minutes of September 15, 2016, MPO meeting (to be posted)

8. Action Item:

a. Work Program for: South Coast Rail 2016, Karl Quackenbush, MPO Executive Director: presentation and discussion of the proposed CTPS work for MassDOT to provide updated ridership forecasts and related modeling; vote to approve;
10 minutes (posted)

b. Work Program for: Using General Transit Feed Specification Data to Find Shared Segments with Excessively Irregular Headways, Elizabeth Moore, Director of Policy and Planning, MPO Staff: presentation and discussion of the proposed 3C study to use existing data to provide schedule improvements for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) buses and to document reasons behind irregularities in the existing schedule; vote to approve; 10 minutes (posted)

9. Municipal Contributions to Transportation Project Costs, Karl Quackenbush, MPO Executive Director: review and summary of the recent MPO discussion on local and state contributions to the cost of projects programmed in the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP); discussion of next steps; 15 minutes (posted)

10. Freight Planning Support: Rest Locations for Long-Distance Truck Drivers in Massachusetts, Bill Kuttner, MPO Staff: presentation on this study exploring the available strategies and opportunities that would expand and improve truck parking locations in Massachusetts; 20 minutes (posted)

11. Updates on Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) Transportation Planning Activities in FFY 2016, Eric Bourassa, Sarah Kurpiel Lee, David Loutzenheiser, MAPC staff: presentation on several transportation planning efforts conducted by MAPC in the past year, including right-sized parking research, parking management plans (in Malden and Everett), transit-oriented development planning (in Dedham), complete streets planning (in Acton, Medford, and Winchester), and regional greenway planning; 45 minutes

12. Members Items, reports and notices by MPO members, including regional concerns and local community issues; 5 minutes

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