| | | The application of advanced technologies to improve the efficiency and safety of transportation systems. | 5/8/2014 8:56 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | MAP-21 (P.L. 112-141) is a funding and suthorization bill to govenr US federal surface transprotation spending. It was signed into law by President Obama on July 6, 2012. MAP-21 is the first long-term highway authorization enacted since 2005. It is a two0year bill that does not significantly alter total funding from the previous authorization, but it does include many significant reforms like consilidation of key funding programs, streamling of the environmental review process for faster project development, a national freight policy was developed abd tolling was reformed. | 5/8/2014 8:56 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | That act (action or inaction), whether intentional or unintentional, in any program or activity of a Federal aid recipient, sub recipient, or contractor that results in disparate treatment, disparate impact, or perpetuating the effects of prior discrimination, based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. | 5/8/2014 8:58 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Persons who, usually as a result of their national origin, read, speak, write or understand English less than very well. | 5/8/2014 8:58 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Federal-aid highway funding program that funds a broad range of surface transportation capital needs, including many roads, transit, sea and airport access, vanpool, bike, and pedestrian facilities. | 5/8/2014 8:58 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Refers to the manner in which portions of land or the structures on them are used, i.e. commercial, residential, retail, industrial, etc. | 5/8/2014 8:59 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Legislative initiative by the U.S. Congress that restructured funding for transportation programs. ISTEA authorized increased levels of highway and transportation funding from FY92-97 and increased the role of regional planning commissions/MPOs in funding decisions. The Act also required comprehensive regional and Statewide long-term transportation plans and places an increased emphasis on public participation and transportation alternatives. | 5/8/2014 8:59 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | 1) A qualitative assessment of a road's operating conditions. For local government comprehensive planning purposes, level of service means an indicator of the extent or degree of service provided by, or proposed to be provided by, a facility based on and related to the operational characteristics of the facility. Level of service indicates the capacity per unit of demand for each public facility. 2) This term refers to a standard measurement used by transportation officials which reflects the relative ease of traffic flow on a scale of A to F, with free-flow being rated LOS-A and congested conditions rated as LOS-F. | 5/8/2014 9:00 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | A document resulting from regional or statewide collaboration and consensus on a region or state's transportation system, and serving as the defining vision for the region's or state's transportation systems and services. In metropolitan areas, the plan indicates all of the transportation improvements scheduled for funding over the next 20 years. | 5/8/2014 9:00 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | 1) Regional policy body, required in urbanized areas with populations over 50,000, and designated by local officials and the governor of the state. Responsible in cooperation with the state and other transportation providers for carrying out the metropolitan transportation planning requirements of federal highway and transit legislation. 2) Formed in cooperation with the state, develops transportation plans and programs for the metropolitan area. For each urbanized area, a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) must be designated by agreement between the Governor and local units of government representing 75% of the affected population (in the metropolitan area), including the central cities or cities as defined by the Bureau of the Census, or in accordance with procedures established by applicable State or local law (23 U.S.C. 134(b)(1)/Federal Transit Act of 1991 Sec. 8(b)(1)). | 5/8/2014 9:00 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | The official intermodal transportation plan that is developed and adopted through the metropolitan transportation planning process for the metropolitan planning area, in accordance with 23 U.S.C. 134, 23 USC 135 and 49 U.S.C. 5303. | 5/8/2014 9:00 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) was established as a separate administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000, pursuant to the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999. The primary mission of FMCS is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses . FMCSA is headquartered in Washington, DC. We employ more than 1,000 individuals, in all 50 States and the District of Columbia, dedicated to improving bus and truck safety and saving lives. | 5/8/2014 9:00 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | The availability of transportation options using different modes within a system or corridor. Often used as a synonym for intermodalism. Congress and others frequently use the term intermodalism in its broadest interpretation as a synonym for multimodal transportation. | 5/8/2014 9:00 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | The cooperative research, development, and technology transfer (RD&T) program directed toward solving problems of national or regional significance identified by States and the FHWA, and administered by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Academy of Sciences. | 5/8/2014 9:00 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | A program established under Section 6a) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, to provide a mechanism by which the principal client groups of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration can join cooperatively in an attempt to resolve near-term public transportation problems through applied research, development, testing, and evaluation. NCTRP is administered by the Transportation Research Board(TRB). | 5/8/2014 9:01 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Established by the President's Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) in 1969, NEPA is a national environmental policy requiring that any project using federal funding or requiring federal approval, including transportation projects, examine the effects of proposed and alternative choices on the environment before a federal decision is made. | 5/8/2014 9:01 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | The National Highway System (NHS) includes the Interstate Highway System as well as other roads important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility. The NHS was developed by the Department of Transportation (DOT) in cooperation with the states, local officials, and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs). | 5/8/2014 9:01 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | The Administration was established by the Highway Safety Act of 1970 (23 U.S.C. 401 note). The Administration was established to carry out a congressional mandate to reduce the mounting number of deaths, injuries, and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes on the Nation's highways and to provide motor vehicle damage susceptibility and ease of repair information, motor vehicle inspection demonstrations and protection of purchasers of motor vehicles having altered odometers, and to provide average standards for greater vehicle mileage per gallon of fuel for vehicles under 10,000 pounds (gross vehicle weight). | 5/8/2014 9:01 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Any geographic area that has not met the requirements for clean air as set out in the Clean Air Act of 1990. | 5/8/2014 9:01 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Specific, measurable statements related to the attainment of goals. | 5/8/2014 9:01 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | 1) Comparable transportation service required by the American Disabilities Act (ADA) for individuals with disabilities who are unable to use fixed route transportation systems. (49CFR37) (APTA1) 2) A variety of smaller, often flexibly scheduled-and-routed transportation services using low-capacity vehicles, such as vans, to operate within normal urban transit corridors or rural areas. These services usually serve the needs of persons that standard mass-transit services would serve with difficulty, or not at all. Often, the patrons include the elderly and persons with disabilities. | 5/8/2014 9:01 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | A federal department or agency which transferred (consolidated) vehicles to the Interagency Fleet Management System (IFMS). | 5/8/2014 9:02 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Indicators of how well the transportation system is performing with regard to such things as average speed, reliability of travel, and accident rates. Used as feedback in the decisionmaking process. | 5/8/2014 9:02 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | An element in the planning process in which improvements are formalized in the transportation improvement program and provides more detailed strategies. | 5/8/2014 9:02 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | Priortizing proposed projects and matching those projects with available funds to accomplish agreed upon, stated needs. | 5/8/2014 9:02 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | A locally sponsored, coordinated, and administered program, or any part thereof, to plan, finance, construct, maintain, or improve an intermodal passenger terminal, which may incorporate civic or cultural activities where feasible in an architecturally or historically distinctive railroad passenger terminal. | 5/8/2014 9:02 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | The active and meaningful involvement of the public in the development of transportation plans and programs. | 5/8/2014 9:02 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | An organization that performs planning for multi-jurisdictional areas both urban and rural. MPOs, regional councils, economic development associations, rural transportation associations are examples of RPOs. | 5/8/2014 9:02 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | A right of way is a type of land easement (usually a strip) granted or reserved for transportation purposes, this can be for a highway, public footpath, a canal, railway or any public purposes. It is is reserved for the purposes of maintenance or expansion of existing services within the right-of-way. | 5/8/2014 9:03 AM | service-spsnapmgr |
| | | A set of policies and programs designed to protect, preserve, and economically develop established communities and valuable natural and cultural resources. It suggests to plan for growth in companct walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl. | 5/8/2014 9:03 AM | service-spsnapmgr |