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Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Proposed List of Interview Candidates and Topics." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Developing Snapshots for Transportation Planning. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/29170.

APPENDIX E

Proposed List of Interview Candidates and Topics

After the literature review, the research team provided to the project panel a list of proposed agencies and organizations to be interviewed for each Snapshot topic. Each topic had a short list of priorities for the interviews followed by additional options. The table that follows summarizes this effort.

Complete Streets

Top Priorities for Interviews
Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Regional Planning Program. The MTC passed Resolution No. 4493, which requires all projects that seek to use regional funds to meet Complete Streets standards to receive discretionary funding or funding endorsements from MTC. This policy is unique and shows how an MPO can use policy to potentially significantly increase the number of Complete Streets projects in a region. Arlington County, Virginia. The Neighborhood Complete Streets Commission is unique as it is made up of residents. This program was created in 2016 to make recommendations for projects to fund. In 2023, it recommended two projects to increase accessibility.
Additional Options for Interviews
Ohio DOT. Ohio DOT has developed many guides and resources for implementing Complete Streets and bicycle and pedestrian facilities, including the Multimodal Design Guide and training on Complete Streets Policy Development. Oregon Metro. Oregon Metro developed the Designing Livable Streets and Trails Guide, which provides guidance for the 2040 Growth Concept and the Regional Transportation Plan. Oregon Metro has opted to use the term “livable streets” and strives to provide networks of livable streets that provide all functions as a network. MnDOT. In 2022, MnDOT provided a baseline transportation hierarchy project based on context, user type, and transportation characteristics. This tool is unique as it shows an example of resources that state agencies can use to prioritize Complete Streets projects for funding internally, as well as potential for future resources that can be made public for local jurisdictions. New Jersey DOT. Bureau of Safety, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Programs. New Jersey DOT’s Sustainable Jersey Land Use and Transportation Task Force supports the coordination of initiatives like Complete Streets. New Jersey recently developed a comprehensive approach to Complete Streets, including a guidebook for implementing, checklists, and standard operating procedures. WSDOT. Washington lawmakers approved Senate Bill 5937, which added a new rule to the Revised Code of Washington stating that when planning state highway projects of $500,000 or more, the DOT must consider Complete Streets principles. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The Caltrans Complete Streets Action Plan follows the Director’s Policy on Complete Streets passed in 2021, which requires that all Caltrans projects use Complete Streets principles. This is a unique example of statewide guidance on Complete Streets design and guidelines.

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Data Sharing for Performance Management

Top Priorities for Interviews
City of Atlanta. Representatives from the city of Atlanta were part of a TRB 2023 panel called Using Data to Improve Transportation System Performance. The city and Georgia Tech partnered to launch the North Avenue Smart Corridor Project. A major initiative within the Planning Department is SHIFT ATL. Utah DOT. UPlan is a web-based decision-support mapping and informational tool that lets users have complete or selective data sharing among work units within the DOT, between state DOTs, and with the public. Utah DOT has also developed a product for analyzing automatic traffic signal performance measures.
Additional Options for Interviews
City of Cincinnati. Cincinnati was part of an innovative partnership with Uber through the Cincinnati Mobility Lab. The collaborative includes the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the city of Cincinnati, and Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), in partnership with Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) and Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky (TANK). The Eastern Transportation Coalition. The Eastern Transportation Coalition’s Transportation Data Marketplace is designed to provide coalition members with the ability to acquire reliable and real-time travel time and speed data for their entire roadway network without the need for sensors and other hardware. Members can select from a host of prequalified vendors to provide data in six distinct categories: travel time and speed, origin-destination, freight, waypoint, volume, and conflation. NACTO. NACTO was part of a 2023 TRB panel called Data-Driven Transportation Planning: A Vision for the Future. Along with the International Municipal Lawyers Association (IMLA), it also published the Managing Mobility Data report, which sets out principles and best practices for city agencies and private-sector partners to share, protect, and manage data to meet transportation planning and regulatory goals in a secure and appropriate manner. Iowa DOT. Iowa DOT was part of a TRB 2024 panel called Breaking Down Organizational Silos with Data Standards. Iowa DOT also has a unique data management plan. Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). One of SCAG’s major initiatives is its Regional Data Platform, which is a collaborative data-sharing and planning platform. Open Mobility Foundation. The Open Mobility Foundation develops open-source standards and tools through a governance structure that brings together stakeholders from the public and private sectors to advance shared goals and work toward the common good.

Collaboration on Local Freight Delivery

Top Priorities for Interviews

NYC DOT. The NYC Off-Hour Delivery Program is a pilot initiative by NYC DOT to encourage businesses to shift their deliveries from peak hours (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.) to off-hours (7 p.m. to 6 a.m.). The pilot included collecting and inventory of off-street loading docks to understand where there was/was not capacity. The Off-Hour Delivery Program has also collaborated with other organizations such as the NYC Economic Development Corporation on efficient use of the city’s waterways to transport goods around the city, including areas around Brooklyn and Hunt’s Point. More than just reducing congestion on NYC streets, this project also aims to improve public health by reducing emissions caused by trucks sitting in traffic.
MAG. In seeking to address truck and driver shortages, MAG has identified strategies to shift to just-in-time delivery with strategically located distribution centers. MAG is conducting four freight

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subarea project assessments in the industrial clusters of the MAG region that focus on moving goods more efficiently, reducing congestion, and improving safety.

Additional Options

Texas DOT. TXDOT has integrated multimodal freight and economic considerations into its overall agency planning and programming. Its Multimodal Freight Mobility Plan and the Texas-Mexico Border Transportation Master Plan are innovative approaches to freight planning.
Seattle Department of Transportation. Seattle DOT has collaborated with the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab on the Last Mile Freight Curb Access Program. In 2023, the Urban Freight Lab, Open Mobility Foundation, and Seattle DOT received a $2 million Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grant for curbside management digitization.
Colorado DOT. Colorado DOT has developed a successful truck parking information system and employed successful strategies to improve parking availability. It partnered with the town of Bennett, CO, to solve the town’s capacity needs and incentivize growth at a local facility.
District DOT. In 2017, the District of Columbia Department of Transportation launched its first curb space pilot in 2017 in partnership with a local business improvement district.
Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). In 2019, ARC began working with local partners on freight cluster plans in areas with significant industrial development. The 2016 Atlanta Regional Freight Mobility Plan Update identified the need to conduct local, small area freight planning.
New Jersey Office of Planning Advocacy. In 2022, the New Jersey Office of Planning Advocacy released guidelines on warehouse development. The first-of-their-kind guidelines were created to help municipalities decide when to approve warehouse development while protecting New Jersey’s infrastructure and environment.

Programmatic Economic Measures to Evaluate and Prioritize Transportation Projects and Investments

Top Priorities for Interviews
Ohio DOT. In collaboration with the Department of Development and the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, Ohio DOT developed a Strategic Transportation and Development Analysis to be used for a statewide study of the Ohio transportation system. Broward Metropolitan Planning Operation. Broward incorporated a 10-point scale for assessing the impact on economic vitality into its project prioritization process.
Additional Options for Interviews
MTC. MTC uses an activity-based travel model to conduct a benefit–cost analysis (BCA) for any project with an estimated cost greater than $100 million. Texas DOT. Texas DOT has developed a BCA Grant Pipeline Screening tool that could be applicable to other types of transportation project screening processes. Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). In addition to having a quantitative criterion to score projects, ARC convenes the Transportation Equity Advisory Group and conducts a qualitative evaluation of projects via a two-pronged equity analysis to weight individual criteria used to score projects. Kansas City Department of Transportation. The Eisenhower Transportation Program is a 10-year program that addresses transportation needs in Kansas; the process includes economic impact weighting criteria for expansion projects to help decide which ones to move forward. Port of Oakland. The Port of Oakland has experience with BCAs for grant applications and has presented its lessons learned and how these BCAs could be useful for other parts of transportation prioritization. Virginia DOT. The Virginia DOT SMART SCALE program evaluates potential transportation projects based on key factors, including their contributions to economic development.

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Proposed List of Interview Candidates and Topics