Planning Support Services

The Vendor is required to provide planning support services for include:
- Statewide and regional planning
• Support the continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive statewide multimodal transportation planning process with the state's 15 transportation planning regions (TPRS) focusing on the development of the long-range statewide and regional transportation plans, and associated implementation and reporting activities.
• Perform transportation planning, research and analysis to support planning and programming, including the development, maintenance and implementation of the 10- year plan.
• Support the development of the statewide transportation improvement program (STIP).
• Promote land use and transportation planning coordination in statewide and regional planning processes.
• Support corridor planning efforts to integrate multiple disciplines into a cohesive “complete corridors” framework.
• Help establish a planning approach that better aligns asset management, risk and resilience, active transportation, land use, public health, air quality and related considerations.
• Move beyond traditional, siloed corridor studies toward a more holistic, data-informed, and multimodal strategy.
• Support the development of the next long-range planning process, including studies, updates to existing documents, scope and schedule, and preliminary content development.
- Complete streets
• Support the incorporation of multimodal transportation options to create a complete and connected transportation network.
• Collect and analyze active transportation traffic data to support resource decisions.
• Guidance and planning-level support to state, local and regional agencies.
• Help develop and conduct outreach and education activities to promote safety for vulnerable road users (VRUS), and encourage bicycle and pedestrian transportation.
• Help develop special programs and projects that assist individuals in safely walking and biking.
- Multimodal grant programs
• Help communities to implement transportation-related programs and projects that improve safety, expand multimodal options, and yield long-term benefits to community centers and main streets.
• Promote land use and transportation planning coordination in grant programs.
• Help administer, track, monitor, and provide oversight of state and federal multimodal grant programs, including the safe routes to school program (SRTS), congestion mitigation and air quality program (CMAQ), transportation alternatives program (TA), carbon reduction program (CRP), multimodal transportation and mitigation options fund (MMOF), etc.