What is the purpose of corridor planning?
Corridor Planning accomplishes the following:
- Promotes the safe and efficient movement of people, goods, and services.
- Initiates an intergovernmental cooperative planning process to promote community
and state based transportation decisions.
- Provides opportunities for public, local government, and agency participation early on
and throughout the process, and promotes active participation in potential corridor solutions,
including the development of context sensitive solutions; meets objectives by comprehensively
addressing transportation issues, and evaluating a full range of multimodal solutions for increased mobility.
- Saves money by identifying long-range right-of-way needs by anticipating potential problems
resulting from growth before solutions become too expensive.
- Fills the gap between the statewide modal plans for highways, public transportation, rail,
aeronautics, and bicycle/pedestrian, and the project selection process.
- Furnishes a link between land-use planning and transportation planning.
- Determines the extent of the social, economic, and environmental issues within the corridor
and analyzes potential alternatives at an appropriate and economical level of detail.
- Facilitates resolution of major issues (i.e., public opinion, cost, environmental constraints)
before specific project programming and development begin.
- Protects transportation investments by exploring alternate means to accommodate transportation needs,
with and without capital-intensive improvements.
- Provides an opportunity to direct future development, and minimize environmental, social, and economic impacts.
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