MPO Planning Activities
The diversity of Alabama's urbanized areas require that Alabama's MPOs serve a wide variety of functions. As a group, most fill a core of common functions focusing on land use and transportation planning and programming. These functions include:
Long Range Land Use Forecasting
· Population, employment, and other socio-economic forecasts
· Preparation of Long Range Plans for land use and public facilities
Long Range Transportation Planning
· Highway planning
· Mass transit planning
· Bicycle and pedestrian planning
Technical (Operational) Services
· Analysis of short term transportation problems (intersections, parking, access, etc.)
· Planning services for transportation projects
· Maintenance of transportation and land use databases
· Roadway capacity analysis, environmental impact analysis, signal justifications, traffic studies, accident data collection, street inventories,
railroad inventories
· Mapping and GIS services
· U.S. Census data affiliates
· Air quality planning
Programming of Transportation Improvements
· Assistance to local jurisdictions in development, design, funding of projects
· Coordination of project implementation
· Project prioritization
· Present and future needs analysis
Coordination
· Provide a forum for policy and technical discussions in a region
· Assist communication between various levels of government
· Provide an educational process for elected officials and the public
Long Range Land Use Forecasting
· Population, employment, and other socio-economic forecasts
· Preparation of Long Range Plans for land use and public facilities
Long Range Transportation Planning
· Highway planning
· Mass transit planning
· Bicycle and pedestrian planning
Technical (Operational) Services
· Analysis of short term transportation problems (intersections, parking, access, etc.)
· Planning services for transportation projects
· Maintenance of transportation and land use databases
· Roadway capacity analysis, environmental impact analysis, signal justifications, traffic studies, accident data collection, street inventories,
railroad inventories
· Mapping and GIS services
· U.S. Census data affiliates
· Air quality planning
Programming of Transportation Improvements
· Assistance to local jurisdictions in development, design, funding of projects
· Coordination of project implementation
· Project prioritization
· Present and future needs analysis
Coordination
· Provide a forum for policy and technical discussions in a region
· Assist communication between various levels of government
· Provide an educational process for elected officials and the public