The Kern Regional Transportation Plan

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The Kern Regional Transportation Plan

• A Vision and Guidebook for Kern County in 2025

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The Kern Regional Transportation Plan

• Plan Overview
• Required Elements
• Timeline for Development and Adoption
• Comments/Questions

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Purpose of the Regional Transportation Plan

• Provide an assessment of current transportation
  modes and potential for travel options within and
  through the region
• Predict future needs for travel and goods movement

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Purpose of the RTP

• Identify and document specific actions necessary
  to address the regions mobility and
  accessibility needs
• Identify and document public policy decisions by
  local, regional, state and federal officials
  regarding transportation expenditures and
  financing

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Purpose of the RTP

• Identify needed transportation improvements to
  serve as a foundation for (a) FTIP (b) RTIP (
  c) ITIP (d) Environmental
  Impacts (e) Air Quality Conformity/SIP

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Purpose of the RTP

• Provide a forum for participation, cooperation
  and partnerships that reconcile regional
  transportation issues
• Involve the public, federal, state, and local
  agencies, as well as elected officials, early in
  the planning process

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2002 Regional Transportation Plan will

• State law now requires RTPs to be updated every
  three years
• Plan for 10-year and 20-year transportation needs
• Focus on ALL modes of transportation within Kern
  County

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Regional Transportation Plan Components

• Development of the RTP is based on state and
  federal statutory and regulatory requirements as
  well as CTC recommendations
• Govt. Code 65080 Each RTPA shall prepare and
  adopt an RTP directed at achieving a coordinated
  and balanced regional transportation system
  including
• Mass Transportation
• Streets, Roads and Highways
• Railroads
• Bicycles and Pedestrians
• Goods Movement
• Aviation Facilities

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The RTP shall include

• Policy Element
• Action Element
• Financial Element

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The RTP shall include

• A Policy Element that reflects the mobility
  goals, policies, and objectives of the Kern
  Region
• The Policy Element will
• Describe transportation issues in the Kern Region
• Identify and quantify regional needs expressed
  within both a short range (10 year) and long
  range (20 year) framework
• Maintain internal consistency with the Financial
  Element fund estimates

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An Action Element that identifies programs and
efforts to implement the RTP

• The Action Element will
• Establish assumptions
• Identify potentially significant needs and issues
• Forecast needs based on demographic economic
  trends
• Develop reasonable transportation improvement
  alternatives based on land use forecasts, roadway
  network, funding potential and transit options

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The second section of the Action Element
identifies all projects to be programmed

• It establishes linkages with state and local
  transportation plans and programs
• It summarizes the most significant aspects, such
  as new technologies, previous plan
  accomplishments, as well as resource sharing and
  public/private partnerships
• It identifies the specific need for projects in a
  systems context

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Financial Element

• The Financial Element summarizes the cost of
  implementing each project discussed in the RTP,
  considering a financially constrained program
• Both the availability of potential federal,
  state, local and private funding options and the
  ability of the region to secure these funds are
  major considerations

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Timeline

• September 21, 2000
• Weve only just begun!
• January 2001 May 2001
• Public participation meetings
• June 2001
• 45 day public review period
• July 19, 2001
• Board workshop for the 2002 RTP
• September 20, 2001
• Board approval

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Questions???