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Kansas City, MO-KS and Nashville, TN - Incorporating Livability into the Metropolitan Planning Organization Project Prioritization Process

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  • Alternative Title:
    FHWA's Livable Communities Case Study Series
  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Federal Highway Administration
  • Corporate Contributors:
    United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
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  • Resource Type:
    Brief
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States;Missouri;Tennessee;Washington
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) help urban areas develop, analyze, and implement shared regional transportation visions and goals through the metropolitan transportation planning process. These goals, expressed in long range transportation plans (LRTPs), often incorporate livability, which is about tying the quality and location of transportation facilities to broader opportunities such as access to good jobs, affordable housing, quality schools, and safer streets and roads. To implement goals on the ground, MPOs develop short-term project priority lists in Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPs). All Federally-funded transportation projects must be listed in a TIP, which in turn must be consistent with an MPO's 20-25 year LRTP. Increasingly holistic local priorities create a need to connect an MPO's goals and visions with specific projects in an LRTP or TIP. Traditionally, MPOs focus on improving traffic and congestion when selecting which transportation projects to prioritize and fund. In addition to those important concerns, MPOs are increasingly looking for ways to incorporate livability goals such as quality of life, health, equity, economic competitiveness, and environmental concerns into decisionmaking about projects and funding.
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