Accessibility as a Decision-making Tool for Utah Planning

Accessibility tools offer the ability to assess plans, programs and projects across modes and at relevant spatial scales, and they can be similarly applied to both transportation and land use questions. But to be applied to practice outside of academic or ad hoc studies, these tools need to be adapted to the needs of practitioners, and standard nomenclature and decision rules should be developed. Until practitioners have a vetted and practical way to use accessibility, the concept will remain underused. The project team is completing a project with Virginia Department of Transportation (Virginia DOT) to use accessibility in a statewide project-selection process. While this is just one use of accessibility, the foundational work involved, to relate accessibility to project-level decisionmaking, has been accomplished. The proposed project will acquaint Utah DOT (UDOT) and its stakeholders with that work and build on it, applying it to decisions in Utah and developing a guide for practitioners. The primary objective of this research project is to operationalize accessibility measures at the project level, for use by UDOT in planning, selecting, designing and/or operating projects. Secondary objectives of this research project are to explore other uses for accessibility measures, for UDOT and its partners, and to use the UDOT experience to help set standards and practices for accessibility.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $150000
• Contract Numbers:

  18-8556

  UT17.608

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Utah Department of Transportation

  4501 South 2700 West
  Project Development
  Salt Lake City, UT  United States  84114-8380

  State Smart Transportation Initiative

  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Madison, Wisconsin  United States  53706
• Managing Organizations:

  Utah Department of Transportation

  4501 South 2700 West
  Project Development
  Salt Lake City, UT  United States  84114-8380
• Project Managers:

  Nichol, Kevin

• Performing Organizations:

  State Smart Transportation Initiative

  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Madison, Wisconsin  United States  53706
• Principal Investigators:

  Sundquist, Eric

• Start Date: 20171202
• Expected Completion Date: 20181231
• Actual Completion Date: 20181231

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Decision making; Project management; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Utah Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: Utah
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01669506
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Utah Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 18-8556, UT17.608
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 21 2018 12:44PM