Agenda posted before 5:00 PM, December 8, 2016
Metropolitan Planning Organization Meeting
Conference Rooms 2 and 3, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA
December 15, 2016, 10:00 AM
(Estimated duration:
2 hours and 15 minutes, expected ending at 12:15 PM)
Please Note: This meeting will be preceded
by a Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) Committee meeting beginning at 9:00
AM
1. Introductions, 5 minutes
2. Public Comments, 5 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 Items:
a. Approval of November 3, 2016, MPO meeting minutes; 5 minutes (posted)
b. Draft Federal Fiscal Years (FFYs) 201721 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Amendment 1; Alexandra Kleyman, MPO Staff: presentation and discussion of public comments; vote to approve; 10 minutes (posted)
c. Work Program: Addressing Priority Corridors from the Long-Range Transportation Plan Needs Assessment; Mark Abbott, MPO Staff: presentation and discussion on the proposed work in FFY 2017 to study multimodal transportation solutions on key arterial roadways; 5 minutes (posted)
d. Work Program: Low-Cost Improvements to Express-Highway Bottleneck Locations; Mark Abbott, MPO Staff: presentation and discussion on the proposed work in FFY 2017 to study and recommend low-cost improvements at bottleneck locations; 5 minutes (posted)
e. Work Program: Safety Effectiveness of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Programs; Mark Abbott, MPO Staff: presentation and discussion on the proposed work to investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of Massachusettss SRTS program and the primary factors contributing to the programs effectiveness; 5 minutes (posted)
8. Barriers and Opportunities Influencing Mode Shift; Katie Pincus and Bill Kuttner, MPO Staff: presentation of the study in which staff analyzed the Massachusetts Travel Survey in order to identify the characteristics of transit-competitive travel markets; 30 minutes (posted)
9. Local Access: A New Tool for Maximizing Active Transportation Opportunities; Tim Reardon, Metropolitan Area Planning Council: presentation on a method to prioritize investments that benefit walkers and bicyclists; 30 minutes
10. State
Implementation Plan (SIP) Update, Bryan
Pounds, MassDOT: monthly progress report; 10 minutes
11. Members
Items, reports and notices by MPO members, including regional
concerns and local community issues; 5 minutes
Posted materials are available via the MPOs meeting calendar webpage
at http://www.ctps.org/calendar/month.
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