"NEW DIRECTIONS" YEAR 2030 TRANSPORTATION PLAN
New DirectionS… What does this mean?
The Bi-State Year 2030 Transportation and Mobility Plan; Transportation
Investments for Mobility and Efficiency (TIME for New Directions) which
was adopted in the Summer of 2006 articulated the elements of a new transportation
planning process for the Bi-State MPO. During the Plan update in 2005
the Bi State MPO Staff recommended to the Bi-State MPO Board that a new
vision for transportation planning and investments become the foundation
for out transportation planning process. This new vision incorporates
a series of management systems and initiatives to maximize and better
utilize the region’s transportation investments.
As a non Transportation Management Agency (TMA), the Bi-State MPO receives
no attributed federal funding nor do we receive any federal pass through
funding from the State. The State of Arkansas currently does not sub-allocate
its federal transportation improvement to non TMA MPOs. As a result,
the Bi-State MPO’s New Directions planning initiative has been designed
to facilitate coordinated transportation improvements among the local
jurisdiction through their respective capital improvement programs. New
Directions is an action oriented planning process that is built upon seven
specific planning management systems. Our new process is only in
its second year but we have, to date, initiated five of the seven systems. We
anticipate full integration of the management systems in the next two
years so that we may further the concepts, actions, and results prior
to the update of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan scheduled to begin
in 2010.
