Special Legislation and Megaregion Transit Planning

This project will review provisions within selected megaregion states constitutions and legislation and regulations, and litigation surrounding bracketing to map its breadth and effectiveness in restricting efficient multi modal mobility options. The project will review the Texas constitutional prohibition against special legislation, and will also survey similar provisions in other states and select several states with different special legislation jurisprudence to conduct a comparative review of the effects of different levels of restriction. The project will generate a set of judicial recommendations for how these provisions should be interpreted to facilitate good transportation policy, as well as some suggestions for how these issues might be reconciled legislatively.

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $34625
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747135

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Stearns, Amy

• Performing Organizations:

  Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)

  University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX  United States  78712
• Principal Investigators:

  Loftus-Otway, Lisa

• Start Date: 20180901
• Expected Completion Date: 20190531
• Actual Completion Date: 20200930
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Policy, legislation and regulation; Recommendations; States; Transportation planning
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Law; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01675044
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747135
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 16 2018 3:10PM