The Complete Plan
Moving Forward is organized into chapters and appendices that convey the results of discussions and analyses during the Plan's development.
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Chapters
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The elected and appointed officials who make up NYMTC recognize that mobility—the ability of people and goods to move easily and safely to, from, and between locations—is crucial to the lives of everyone who lives, works, or visits the NYMTC planning area. Therefore, we aspire to (1) ensure that the mobility provided reaches everyone in a sustainable, healthy, and equitable manner; (2) invest efficiently for these transportation needs; and (3) respond effectively to the transportation challenges of tomorrow. The Vision and Goals, Guiding Principles, and Objectives described in this chapter were employed throughout the Moving Forward planning process.
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Federal legislation and related planning regulations require MPOs to produce a long-range regional transportation plan, a five-year transportation improvement program, and an annual unified planning work program. Moving Forward is the regional transportation plan for fiscal years 2022-2050 for the NYMTC planning area. Moving Forward includes forecasts of future conditions and needs and potential transportation improvements, as well as a shared strategic vision for transportation and development within the NYMTC planning area. NYMTC's Shared Vision for Regional Mobility, which guides Moving Forward, is built from a framework of its members and advisers' strategic goals; associated objectives; and related projects, programs, and studies.
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The System Performance Report is an element of Moving Forward that evaluates the condition and performance of the transportation system, sets performance targets, and reports on current progress in meeting the targets. In addition, the Systems Performance Report included in this chapter addresses: highway safety, bridge and pavement, system performance, transit asset management, and transit safety performance assessments and targets.
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This chapter describes the five Vision Goals and their objectives in detail. Relevant trends and conditions are analyzed for each goal, and related existing programmatic initiatives are described. Additionally, short- and medium-term strategies and actions for each goal and its objectives are recommended.
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Moving Forward encompasses activities related to the federally supported transportation system, including operations and maintenance of the system; the life-cycle replacement, refurbishment, rehabilitation, reconditioning, or reconstruction of components of the system; and extensions and/or improvements to the existing transportation system or new segments or services added to the transportation system to improve capacity and/or throughput. Moving Forward's financial chapter describes the estimated costs for these activities and anticipated sources of revenues to cover the costs.
Appendices
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Moving Forward recommends numerous projects, programs, and studies for the NYMTC planning area during the 2021-2050 planning period. These recommended improvements and actions fall into two distinct categories: programmed projects that are in the Plan's fiscally constrained element and aspirational projects, proposals, and studies that are in the Plan's vision element. Programmed projects in the fiscally constrained element are sufficiently developed that likely costs and potential funding are defined. The aspirational vision projects are those projects, programs, and studies that are relatively undefined and in almost all cases do not have an identified source of funding. Vision projects are often moved into the constrained Plan when they are sufficiently defined.
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Walking and bicycling are integral parts of life in the NYMTC planning area, providing residents with the means for commuting and traveling for recreational purposes. This Pedestrian-Bicycle Element outlines several strategies that support the Shared Vision goals and further enhances the pedestrian and bicycle transportation system.
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The focus of this appendix is to present data and information on a wide range of recent socioeconomic and demographic trends and forecasts over the course of the Plan. SED forecasts have been developed for a 31-county “forecast region” in the multi-state metropolitan region. Forecasts are provided for the following categories: employment, population, labor force, households, and household aize. The forecasts, which are disaggregated geographically into discrete traffic analysis zones, are fundamental inputs to forecasting travel demand within the transportation system.
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Every day, millions of people from diverse communities are moving throughout the NYMTC planning area. One of the guiding principles of NYMTC is to consider the needs of all users across its planning area in the planning process. Federal mandates emphasize the importance of addressing the disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority and low-income populations through all aspects of the transportation planning process and require that recipients of federal aid comply with the policies set forth in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and Environmental Justice directives. The Environmental Justice and Title VI Assessment ensures compliance with the requirements regarding non-discrimination and justice within the transportation planning and programming process for Moving Forward.
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NYMTC is committed to protecting and enhancing the region's natural resources, promoting energy conservation, improving the quality of life, and promoting consistency between transportation improvements and state and local planned growth. Specific to the development of Moving Forward , environmental stewardship and mitigation support the Plan's Shared Vision and Goals, particularly the Plan's goal of reducing environmental impacts. NYMTC formalized the consultation process for Moving Forward by directly reaching out to various partner agencies for input on environmental initiatives in the NYMTC region and participation in the various public outreach activities. This outreach identified resource and conservation concerns that informed the development of the Plan.
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The NYMTC planning area features a large, diverse, multimodal transportation landscape that includes several levels of public transit, paratransit, and human service transportation options. These multiple levels of transportation services and the large number of providers in this geographically and demographically diverse area make coordinating the needs and services for specific groups in the resident population challenging. The Coordinated Plan reflects changes in the federal funding program and identifies opportunities for coordination and investment in specialized transportation services throughout the NYMTC planning area by comparing the various transportation services available in each of the counties and boroughs to the needs of the two target populations: older adults (age 65 and older) and people with disabilities.
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NYMTC developed Moving Forward in part through a public involvement effort that engaged various constituencies and key audiences in its planning area. It gathered input from the public, community-based advocacy groups, communities of concern, and other stakeholders, including a Regional Transportation Plan Subcommittee composed of NYMTC planning area agency members. Engagement of communities traditionally underserved, including environmental justice (i.e., minority or low-income) and limited English proficiency populations, was emphasized broadly for outreach efforts associated with Moving Forward . NYMTC initiated early outreach efforts for Moving Forward by conducting several in person workshops on shared mobility in September, November, and December 2019 and a region-wide workshop session on micromobility in January 2020. In early 2020, NYMTC embarked on additional plan outreach elements when the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) arrived in the United States. NYMTC had charted an outreach plan that included substantial in-person engagement through public workshops, focus groups, and pop- up outreach spanning New York City, Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley. When this region emerged as the early locus of the pandemic, and the prospect of conducting outreach with large groups of people face-to-face became untenable, NYMTC pivoted the Moving Forward engagement program to focus on remote and virtual forms of outreach with great care to ensure that diverse and representative input could be obtained. Public workshops were transformed into a series of highly successful interactive virtual workshops.
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Commodity flows, that is the movement of all types of goods determine the need for and utilization of transportation assets and infrastructure. Commodity flow expectations provide an important framework for the planning of physical, operational, or regulatory improvements. This appendix provides background information on the volume and value, and trends, of commodity flows within, to, and from the NYMTC planning area and the larger area comprising 10 regional planning agencies, including NYMTC, in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The analysis of commodity flows, in turns, permits evaluations of performance and needs related to multimodal freight networks, facilities, and logistics. The Freight Element presented in this appendix draws from the analysis and evaluations.