Screen 1: Evaluation Process and Criteria
Decreasing number of alternatives Alternatives Increasing number of criteria Evaluation Criteria Screen 2 Screen 1 Screen 3 (conceptual) (pre-screening) (detailed) Evaluation Process/Criteria
Screen 1 Screen 2 (Conceptual) Screen 3 (Detailed) Account/Category (pass/fail) Mobility Environmental (Social/community) Environmental (Natural) Fiscal Urban form Deliverability Evaluation Process/Criteria
Screen 1: Modes/Technologies
Traditional Urban Roadway Mode/Technology Options Non-Traditional Urban Roadway Mode/Technology Options Alternative Transportation Strategies Mode/Technology Options
Traditional Urban Roadway Mode/Technology Options: Modes or vehicle technologies typically found in a congested urban roadway corridor similar to Colfax Mode/Technology Options
Traditional Urban Roadway Mode/Technology Options: Roadway expansion Enhanced bus Bus Rapid Transit Modern streetcar Light rail Mode/Technology Options
Traditional Options: Roadway Expansion Key factors: $1-10 million/lane mile depending on extent of construction Typically requires additional right-of-way or property Mode/Technology Options
Traditional Options: Enhanced Bus Key factors: $1-5 million/mile depending on amenities Shared roadway Service expansion coupled with mixture of roadway and boarding improvements Mode/Technology Options
Traditional Options: Bus Rapid Transit Key factors: $2-20 million/mile depending on extent of construction and amenities Semi-exclusive or exclusive guideway for some portion of route Mode/Technology Options
Traditional Options: Modern streetcar Key factors: $30-60 million/mile depending on extent of construction and amenities Shared roadway, semi-exclusive or exclusive guideway Can operate as urban circulator and longer-distance commuter route if needed Mode/Technology Options
Traditional Options: Light rail Key factors: $40-80 million/mile depending on extent of construction and amenities Semi-exclusive or exclusive guideway Mode/Technology Options
Non- Traditional Urban Roadway Mode/Technology Options: Modes or vehicle technologies typically in use in other applications in other cities and systems but not typically found in a congested urban roadway corridor similar to Colfax Mode/Technology Options
Non- Traditional Urban Roadway Mode/Technology Options: Commuter rail Heavy rail MagLev Monorail Automated Guideway Transit Personal Rapid Transit Gondola Mode/Technology Options
Non-Traditional Options: Commuter rail Key factors: $20-60 million/mile depending on extent of construction and amenities Usually in railroad corridor Mode/Technology Options
Non-Traditional Options: Heavy rail Key factors: $40-100 million/mile depending on extent of construction and amenities Completely grade separated Mode/Technology Options
Non-Traditional Options: MagLev Key factors: $100 million+/mile High speeds and high capacity Completely grade separated Mode/Technology Options
Non-Traditional Options: Monorail Key factors: $40-80 million+/mile Completely grade separated Usually in intense activity centers Mode/Technology Options
Non-Traditional Options: Automated guideway transit Key factors: $40-80 million/mile Completely grade separated Usually in dense urban centers Mode/Technology Options
Non-Traditional Options: Personal rapid transit Key factors: $30-60 million/mile Completely grade separated Usually in activity centers such as airports Mode/Technology Options
Non-Traditional Options: Gondola Key factors: $10-50 million/mile Completely grade separated Usually in areas with major grade changes Mode/Technology Options
Alternative Transportation Strategies Transportation Demand Management strategies Transportation Supply Management strategies Existing bus service improvements Roadway operational improvements Improved bicycle/pedestrian facilities Mode/Technology Options
Screen 1: Categories and Results
Evaluation Categories Category Description Measures the benefits and impacts of the project to users of Mobility the corridor’s transportation network, including transit users, auto drivers and passengers, pedestrians, and cyclists. Measures the benefits and impacts of the project on health, Environmental (Social/community) safety, community cohesion, economics, heritage, and the overall built environment. Measures the benefits and impacts of the project on the Environmental (Natural) natural environment Measures the benefits and impacts of the project on individual Fiscal users, implementing agencies, and the region as a whole. Measures the benefits and impacts of the project on local land Urban Form uses and the urban environment. Measures broad issues associated with delivering or Deliverability implementing a project, including technical or engineering challenges in building or operating the project, likely construction impacts, and the level of community and stakeholder acceptance. Screen 1
Screen 1 Evaluation Measures Category Measures (Pass/Fail) Meets mobility elements of P&N: Mobility • Trip capacity • Multi-modal • Connectivity and accessibility • Any environmental fatal flaws? Environmental (Social/Community) • Consistent with local and regional plans? • Consistent with federal livability and sustainability plans and principles? • Any environmental fatal flaws? Environmental (Natural) • Reasonable capital/O&M costs per capacity improvements Fiscal compared with other options/alternatives? • Significant right-of-way or property acquisitions? Urban Form • Consistent with neighborhood urban design and development plans and standards? • Constructable? Deliverability • Proven technology in revenue service in a comparable application? Screen 1
Screen 1: Preliminary Results
Screen 1: Traditional Mode/Technology Options Category/Measures Roadway Expansion Enhanced Bus Bus Rapid Transit Modern Streetcar Light Rail Mobility – Meets P&N elements related to: • Trip capacity Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass • Multi-modal Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass • Connectivity and Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass accessibility Environmental – Social/Community • Any fatal flaws? Fail (historic) Pass Pass Pass Pass • Consistent with Fail (violates City Pass Pass Pass Pass (though could local and regional principles) be in conflict with plans? CDOT I-70 Incident Management Plan) • Consistent with Fail Pass Pass Pass Pass federal sustainability and livability plans and principles? Screen 1
Screen 1: Traditional Mode/Technology Options (continued) Category/Measures Roadway Expansion Enhanced Bus Bus Rapid Transit Modern Streetcar Light Rail Environmental – Natural • Any fatal flaws? Fail (parks, drainage) Pass Pass Pass Pass Fiscal • Reasonable Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass (though upper capital/O&M limit of cost per costs per capacity capacity) improvement compared with other options/ alternatives? Screen 1
Screen 1: Traditional Mode/Technology Options (continued) Category/Measures Roadway Expansion Enhanced Bus Bus Rapid Transit Modern Streetcar Light Rail Urban Form • Significant Fail Pass Pass Pass (though could Pass (though private right-of- require relatively requires street way or property small site for ROW) acquisitions? maintenance facility) • Consistent with Fail (Strategic Pass Pass Pass Pass neighborhood Transportation Plan urban design and assumptions) development plans and standards? Deliverability • Constructable? Pass Pass Pass (though Pass (though Pass (though guideway could guideway could guideway could have construction have construction have construction impacts) impacts) impacts) • Proven Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass technology in revenue service in a comparable application? Screen 1
Screen 1: Traditional Mode/Technology Options: Summary Category Roadway Expansion Enhanced Bus Bus Rapid Transit Streetcar Light Rail Mobility Environmental – Social/Community Environmental – Natural Fiscal Urban Form Deliverability OVERALL FAIL PASS PASS PASS PASS Screen 1
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