Ep 16: 8 Federal Emphasis Areas

The Modern Mobility Podcast

Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to incorporate the eight (8) federal planning emphasis areas into state, regional, and local plans. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 16:

• An explanation of the federal planning emphasis areas
• An overview of each emphasis area including an overview and planning strategies:
  • Tackling the Climate Crisis – Transition to a Clean Energy, Resilient Future
  • Equity and Justice40 in Transportation Planning
  • Complete Streets
  • Public Involvement
  • Strategic Highway Network (STRAHNET)/U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Coordination
  • Federal Land Management Agency (FMLA) Coordination
  • Planning and Environmental Linkage
  • Data in Transportation Planning

Links:

• 2021 Federal Planning Emphasis Areas: https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/2022-01/Planning-Emphasis-Areas-12-30-2021.pdf
• Alternative Fuels Data Center: https://afdc.energy.gov/#:%7E:text=The%20Alternative%20Fuels%20Data%20Center,and%20other%20fuel%2Dsaving%20measures.
• Chattanooga 2050 Regional Transportation Plan: https://2050rtp-chcrpa.hub.arcgis.com/apps/5e7ee7bc5a914470ab3c383a487376dd/explore
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2022. Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Strategies for Future Success. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26555.
• Executive Order (EO) 14008: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/02/01/2021-02177/tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad
• EO 13990: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01765/protecting-public-health-and-the-environment-and-restoring-science-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis
• FHWA Order 5520: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/orders/5520.cfm
• FHWA’s Resilience Webpage: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sustainability/resilience/
• EO 13985: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/
• Justice40 Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/#3/33.47/-97.5
• Center for Disease Control (CDC) Social Vulnerability Index: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/placeandhealth/svi/index.html
• USDOT Transportation Equity Website: https://www.planning.dot.gov/planning/topic_transportationequity.aspx
• FHWA Complete Streets Press Release: https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/federal-highway-administration-details-efforts-advance-complete-streets-design-model
• FHWA Complete Streets Webpage: https://highways.dot.gov/complete-streets
• USDOT’s Transportation Planning and Capacity Building Public Involvement Webpage: https://www.planning.dot.gov/planning/topic_PI.aspx
• FHWA’s PlanWorks: Better Planning. Better Projects: https://fhwaapps.fhwa.dot.gov/planworks/Home
• FHWA Center for Accelerating Innovation’s Virtual Public Involvement Webpage: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/everydaycounts/edc_5/virtual_public_involvement.cfm
• FHWA’s Community Connections Webpage: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/community_connections/
• FHWA Operations Coordinating Military Deployments on Roads and Highways: A Guide for State and Local Agencies: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop05029/appendix_a.htm
• US Army’s Transportation Engineering Agency Highways for National Defense: https://www.sddc.army.mil/sites/TEA/Functions/SpecialAssistant/Pages/HighwaysNationalDefense.aspx
• FHWA’s Federal Lands Access Program Webpage: https://highways.dot.gov/federal-lands/programs-access
• FHWA’s Collaborative Federal Land Management Agencies Strategic Transportation Planning Webpage: http://volpe-public-lands.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/flma_lrtp_cvts/index.htm
• FHWA PEL Fact Sheet: https://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/env_initiatives/pel/Updated_PEL_Fact_Sheet_2021-09-29.pdf
• FHWA PEL PlanWorks: https://fhwaapps.fhwa.dot.gov/planworks/Applications/Show/planning-and-environment-linkages
• FHWA’s Planning and Environmental Linkages FAST Act Guidance: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/guidance/pel/pelfaq16nov.cfm
• FHWA’s Applying Archived Operations Data in Transportation Planning: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop16082/index.htm