Moore County CTP & STI Prioritization Presentation to Moore County Managers Group July 19, 2018
Moore County CTP Update
What is a CTP? A Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) is a long-range, multi-modal transportation plan. It is mutually adopted by local governments and NCDOT, and endorsed by TARPO. Moore County’s CTP is looking out to the year 2040, trying to identify current and future transportation problems and potential solutions to those problems. CTPs only identify project concepts – they do not get into specific design-related details. CTPs do not consider funding – they only identify problems and solutions, without identifying the source of funding to pay for the improvements
We are Nearing the End… Moore County’s CTP saga began all the way back on June 1, 1998 (20 years ago!), when work began on what was then called a Thoroughfare Plan. Over the years, work started and stopped twice (in 2000 and 2008) due to various controversies. In 2010, NCDOT, TARPO, and Moore County agreed to try another (third) time, with a different approach that would begin with analysis of 5 focus areas US 1 in Southern Pines & Aberdeen NC 24-27 in Carthage NC 24-27 in Cameron Western Connector NC 211 in West End
We are Nearing the End… In 2011, a series of well-attended charrettes gathered input from the public on the five focus areas. Additional public meetings were held in 2015 to gather additional public feedback on recommended solutions in the five focus areas. Final recommendations from the focus areas: US 1 – Superstreet (4-lane in near-term (TIP Project U-5815), 6-lane in long-term if/when needed) NC 24-27 in Carthage – 2-lane “Byway” on north side of town NC 24-27 in Cameron – Leave “as-is”, with some turn lane improvements at the elementary school Western Connector – Option 7 Modified (see next slide) NC 211 in West End – In process of being widened as part of TIP Project R-5726
Western Connector
We are Nearing the End… In November 2017, the Moore County Transportation Committee (MCTC) finalized the set of recommendations to be included in draft maps and reports that would go out for public review and comment These initial drafts were presented to Moore County and each Town/Village in March 2018 A series of public workshops was held in April 2018 to gather feedback on the draft recommendations In late June 2018, NCDOT released an updated draft CTP report/maps with several errors corrected, and a report summarizing the public comments received on the draft recommendations
Draft Highway Map
Draft Rail & Transit Map
Draft Bicycle Map
Draft Pedestrian Map
Next Steps The MCTC must meet one more time to review the comments received from the public, make any final adjustments to the recommendations, and endorse a final set of draft maps/recommendations that will go out for adoption After the MCTC meeting, we will work with Moore County and each municipality to get on your board’s agenda for presentation and adoption of the CTP After local adoptions are complete, the plan will be presented to the TARPO board for endorsement (likely either in October or December) Once TARPO has endorsed the plan, the NC Board of Transportation will consider adoption After BOT adoption, NCDOT will post the finalized plan online
CTP Website General Website for Moore County CTP: https://www.ncdot.gov/projects/moore-transportation- plan/Pages/default.aspx (note new location) Website with Link to Current Report and Maps: https://connect.ncdot.gov/projects/planning/Pages/CTP- Details.aspx?study_id=Moore%20County
STI Prioritization 5.0 Update
How Do Projects get Funded? NCDOT develops a Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) every two years. This document shows “programmed” projects for the upcoming ten-year period. A 2018-2027 STIP was approved last summer and we are now in the process of developing a 2020-2029 STIP that will be adopted in 2019. Projects within the first five years of the adopted STIP (in this case, through 2022) are generally considered “committed” projects. Projects beyond 2022 are included in the STIP so that work may begin on project development (environmental studies, design work, etc.) but these projects are not considered committed and are subject to reprioritization.
How Do Projects get Funded? Example STIP Section:
What projects are already committed for funding? Committed Projects in Moore U-3628 NC 24-27 County: improvements in Carthage R-5709 NC 211 widening AV-5855 hangar taxiways from Aberdeen to Raeford and internal airfield road at Moore County Airport R-5726 NC 211 widening from West End to past EB-5741 US 1 pedestrian Seven Lakes crossing in Aberdeen R-5824 NC 690 EB-5869 Johnson St improvements sidewalk in Aberdeen U-5814/U-5815 – EB-5864 Knoll Rd Superstreet on US 1 and sidewalk/greenway in US 15-501 Southern Pines U-5756 NC 5 improvements in Aberdeen
How Can We Affect the STIP? Strategic Transportation STI takes the money that Investments (STI) NCDOT has for capital projects (from state and In 2013, the General federal sources) and divides it Assembly passed the into three buckets of funding: Strategic Transportation Investments (STI) law, which 40% to Statewide Mobility set up a new formula and 30% to Regional Impact process for selecting transportation projects to 30% to Division Needs fund. For the 2020-29 STIP, the The process is primarily projected available funding driven by data, with some total is $23 billion over the local input as well. ten-year period. About 2/3 of this is already committed to projects, with 1/3 available to program.
How Can We Affect the STIP? The STI process requires that all NCDOT has a Prioritization Work funding decisions for the Group that develops the scoring Statewide Mobility category be criteria for the data portion of the based 100% on data, with no score. local input (other than on The local points are divided with submission of projects for equal weight between points consideration). Based on assigned by NCDOT Division scoring results, no projects in Engineers and by MPOs and our area were selected for RPOs. Statewide Mobility funding. All scoring is done on a 0-100 For the Regional Impact category, scale. Scoring systems are 70% of the scoring is based on different depending on the funding data and 30% is based on local category (statewide, etc.) and the input. For the Division Needs mode of transportation (highway, category, 50% is based on data aviation, etc.). and 50% is based on local input.
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