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1、ACRP Problem No. 10-03-25 Recommended: No Getting State Involvement in the Inter-city Aviation Planning Processes TRB Aviation Group Intergovernmental Relations in Aviation Cmte: The development of data on multi-modal travel flows is a critical need both for aviation system planning and statewide an
2、d multi- state regional transportation planning, particularly for planning high-speed rail systems and understanding their impact on air travel demand and airport capacity needs. This has both institutional and technical components, which the proposed research would address. Given the magnitude of t
3、he undertaking, it may be worth shortening the proposed time frame for the research and tasking it with documenting the current state of practice and data resources and developing a work plan for further efforts to address data deficiencies and required institutional arrangements. A AC CR RP P Probl
4、em Number Problem Number 10-03-25 I. PROBLEM TITLE Getting State Involvement in the Intercity Aviation Planning Processes II. RESEARCH PROBLEM STATEMENT An ongoing study at ACRP, (Project 310) is advocating that the aviation planning process become better integrated with the planning processes under
5、taken by states, and appropriately scaled multistate entities that can examine the longer distance travel market in a manner that will support better aviation, and aviation capacity planning decisions. An example of that is the ongoing New England Regional Aviation Systems Project (NERASP) which cov
6、ers airports in six states. A major problem in undertaking such a multistate project is the lack of a national database describing longer distance travel in a manner that includes the largest American mode of travel, the private vehicle. Surprising as it may seem, there is no national data source th
7、at can document the number of travelers (by all modes) from Maine to New Jersey, for example. The last attempt by the US DOT to collect this interstate data was in 1995, known as the American Travel Survey. The cost of this program was over $20 million a decade ago, and it is not likely to be reesta
8、blished. On their own initiative, some states are banding together to share their statewide trip planning information with each other, to allow the analysis of multistate travel patterns in which both aviation and highways play the major roles. Until now, (and Project 310 in specific) there has been
9、 no effort to include valuable aviation planning data in the new multistate transportation planning efforts. The proposed ACRP project study would examine effective ways to make multistate market data available to the aviation community, and make aviation flow data available to the comprehensive pla
10、nning process which takes place at the state and metropolitan levels. Such an integrated source of transportation flow data would be a major contribution to an improved national program of multimodal policy making. III. OBJECTIVE The objective of the proposed ACRP study is to establish a process whe
11、rein the resources of the state departments of transportation, undertaken in pursuit of their responsibility to support both statewide and metropolitan transportation planning, are shared with, and merged with the resources of the aviation community (working with such organizations as the US DOTs Bu
12、reau of Transportation Statistics) for the common use of all parties involved in longer distance travel in the United States. Over the last decade, two major efforts have been commenced that could result in improved transportation planning capability, with aviation properly integrated in the analysi
13、s. In California, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission developed an intercity trip analysis capability for the California High Speed Rail Authority, in which automobile travel is analyzed in the same process as travel by air, and travel by train. Along the eastern Seaboard, the I95 Corridor Co
14、alition has commenced its Integrated Corridor Analysis Tool (ICAT) project, in which each participating state donates it network and flow data for the creation of one unified transportation planning capability from Maine to Florida; but, this does not yet include aviation capabilities. In both cases
15、, new kinds of data are being developed and analyzed in a manner which can support both the analysis of highways and the analysis of aviation. The project would develop procedures in which the present capabilities of the states to undertake statewide transportation planning could be merged with adja
16、cent states (i.e. states in a specified corridor) to create better market descriptions of long distance trip making in the US, in which aviation is either the largest, or the second largest mode of transportation. This breakthrough would improve the quality of analysis of markets in aviation, and he
17、lp to integrate aviation concerns into comprehensive statewide and metropolitan planning efforts which are now well developed nationwide. IV. RESEARCH PROPOSED In order to accomplish the integration of statewide transportation planning resources with other forms of longer distance travel information
18、 it is important to encourage the states to participate in the development of county to county demand data on a multistate basis. The study itself would have to determine if a moderate level of survey activity would be required in order to calibrate the development of longer distance trip tables, ba
19、sed primarily on state level trip generation and trip distribution characteristics. It is expected that this could be done on a small scale, and not on the scale attempted in the 1995 American Travel Survey. The ACRP program would have to work closely with AASHTO Committee on Planning, among others,
20、 to determine the interest or lack of interest of candidate states to become part of the initial research, which would be undertaken at a multistate, or corridor level. The US DOTs existing Corridors of the Future program would help to guide the question of which issues are best dealt with on a mult
21、istate basis. The ACRP program would also have to be closely coordinated with the continuation of the program commenced by FAA in the FACT2 study to encourage that long range aviation forecasts by undertaken on a countybycounty basis, such as was undertaken by the MITRE Corporation its FATE aviation
22、 forecasting process. The fact that FAA has already encouraged the development of countybycounty trip tables greatly facilitates a later integration of this aviation flow data with the highway flow data being developed in the ICAT project, for example. The work program would have to involve transpor
23、tation managers at many levels, including the relevant federal agencies, state managers, metropolitan managers, and those involved in early examples of multistate corridor activities. V. ESTIMATE OF THE PROBLEM FUNDING AND RESEARCH PERIOD Recommended Funding: While the scale of the program to better
24、 integrate the work of statewide transportation managers with aviation transportation managers would be influenced by the amount of funding available, a program to ensure that a representative set of corridors were included would require a funding of $400,000. Again, this could be scaled back if the
25、re is a lack of funding available. Research Period: A funding period of 3 years is proposed for discussion. VI. URGENCY AND PAYOFF POTENTIAL The ACRP 310 project (now under review by the project panel, of which the author is a member) is recommending that the aviation planning process become better
26、integrated with other elements of the continuing, comprehensive transportation planning process. On their own initiative, some states have already banded together to improve their planning for the longer distance, multistate trip. If action is taken at this time, it will be possible to integrate avi
27、ation planning information as part of that corridorwide data base; this timely action would improve the quality of longer distance market data available to the aviation community, and improve the possibility for the states, and groups of states, to be better support (and participate in) aviation pla
28、nning. VII. RELATED RESEARCH As noted above, efforts to improve the quality of corridor wide multimodal planning have occurred in California through the MTC/CHSRA process, and along the Eastern Seaboard through the ICAT process. Both of these projects have been documented in ACRP 310, as part of its
29、 advocacy of a stronger multimodal basis for aviation planning and analysis. None of the three projects should be considered as complete, or finished at the time. 2 3 VIII. PERSON DEVELOPING THE PROBLEM STATEMENT George Schoener, Executive Director The I95 Corridor Coalition G 703 389 9281 IX. PROCE
30、SS USED TO DEVELOP PROBLEM STATEMENT The problem statement was developed by the author both in his role as the manager of a multistate cooperative venture by and among 16 states, and in his role as a member of the Project Panel of ACRP 310. The author has worked to closely coordinate the activities
31、of the Coalition (and the ICAT program in particular) with the activities of the ACRP research project, and has consulted with members of the research team in the preparation of this problem statement. X. DATE AND SUBMITTED BY Submitted on April 10, 2009 By George Schoener, Executive Director I95 Corridor Coalition