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| Impacts of transportation system |
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| affect all aspects of settlement patterns to include: land development, economic activity and movement of goods, services and trade. |
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| way transportation is accomplished via walking, transit, vehicles, biking etc. & i.d.ing the proportion of trips in an area using each of different modes. |
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| alternative transportation choices |
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| modes of transport beyond a vehicle-walking, transit, biking etc. |
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| alternative mode of transit for those unable to use traditional transit-ex. disabled & elderly |
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| transit oriented development- high density development near a transit stop. |
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| Metropolitan Planning Organization |
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| any population area 50k+ must create an MPO to receive federal funding. Not a level of govt. but does review & certify consistency among/between transportation programs w/in region. |
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| transportation improvement program:3-5 transportation plan that priortizes projects and funding/timeline elements. |
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| traffic analysis zone: geographic unit that divides region into similar areas of land use. |
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| 4 step process- 1.) trip generation 2.) trip distribution 3.) modal split 4.) trip assignment |
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| emission forcasting tools |
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| tools planners use to assess air quality impacts of existing & proposed transportation systems. |
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| measure of the # of vehicles passing thru a point divided by # of vehicles point was designed to carry |
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