Title: PROCEDURES AND TECHNICAL METHODS FOR TRANSIT PROJECT PLANNING. UPDATE 1990
Abstract: Project planning is a critical step in developing transit capital improvements. It focuses on a specific transportation need, identifies alternative actions to address the need, and generates the information needed to select an option for implementation. The effort addresses such issues as costs, benefits, environmental impacts, and financing to support project selection. This report documents a project planning guidance manual for fixed guideway transit projects referred to as alternative analysis--a key part of the UMTA process for advancing rail and busway projects for the past 10 years. This guidance is specifically designed for state and local agencies considering the implementation of fixed guideway transit projects--new rail systems, rail extensions, busways and the like--with UMTA Funds. The guidance may also be of interest to officials anxious to understand the federal perspective on major investments and the type and amount of work to be done by their staff and consultants to satisfy UMTA's alternative analysis requirements. This report is divided into 3 major parts: Major Capital Investment Planning Process; Conduct of Technical Analysis; and The Decisionmaking Process. The manual also contains appendices that bring together the most important regulations, policy statements, and other project planning information including a sample outline of an Environmental Impact Statement.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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