Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) List of Project Priorities (LOPP) Development Practices in Florida: Literature Review

TP3

The TP3 program is currently exploring the practices and methodologies used by Florida’s 27 metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to develop their Lists of Project Priorities (LOPPs). This research aims to identify the characteristics of LOPPs that clearly communicate MPO priorities to FDOT District Offices. To inform the current state of the practice and support other…

Register for the 2024 Florida Commuter Transportation Summit

Transportation Options

2024 Florida Commuter Transportation Summit Ft. Lauderdale, Florida May 20-22, 2024 Join us for the 2024 Florida Commuter Transportation Summit in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  The Summit is a three-day networking and educational conference providing in-depth insight into the Florida Department of Transportation’s Commuter Assistance Programs. With a more than 20-year track record, the Florida Commuter…

APTA Mobility Conference in Portland, Oregon

Events

CUTR Associate Director Lisa Staes joined Stewart Mader, Senior Program Analyst, Safety Policy from FTA’s Office of Transit Safety and Oversight and TriMet’s Executive Director of Safety and Security and Chief Safety Officer, Andrew Wilson to present “Transit Worker Assaults: Research Findings and the Federal and Transit Agency Approaches to Mitigation” during the APTA Mobility…

Understanding Ridership Trends in Transit

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Florida has seen dramatic ridership declines in the past four years. These declines are over two times more severe than those for the nation and have continued thru 2018. The declines are pervasive with the most severe declines in southeastern Florida locations, which are the most conducive to transit. The changes in ridership on public…

Probability of Pedestrian Deaths and the Role of Socioeconomic Factors – A Disaggregated Approach

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Purpose: The objective was to investigate the significance of socioeconomic factors, roadway characteristics, and other factors in explaining the probability of pedestrians dying once involved in vehicle crashes. Methods: Using individual pedestrian crashes and related characteristics in urbanized areas of Florida during 2011-2015 as well as Census tract-level data on socioeconomic factors from the American…

Spotlight on ACHD Commuteride Programs Webinar

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    On Thursday, July 26, 2018, Best Workplaces for Commuters hosted the web conference, “Spotlight on ACHD C ommuteride Programs.” Commuteride is the go-to resource for Transportation Demand Management (TDM) initiatives in Boise, Idaho. Their signature campaign May in Motion, is designed for organizations to become Transportation Champions and gain recognition for their employee…

Improving Access to Transit Through Crowdsourced Information

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The purpose of this research was to facilitate the ongoing collection of information from the public about potential areas of multimodal service and infrastructure improvements and easily share these problems with transit agencies, departments of transportation, and city and county governments. The research team implemented open-source software that leveraged the Open311 issue-reporting standard to capture…

Transportation Demand Management Guidance for Corridor Planning Studies

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The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) regional planning programs address current and forecasted deficiencies of State highways through the conduct of corridor studies. This Guidance for the conduct of corridor planning studies is the product of a comprehensive evaluation of how to incorporate the consideration of Transportation Demand Management strategies into several business areas…