Ep. 20: 4 Steps to Evaluate and Prioritize Transportation Projects

The Modern Mobility Podcast

Episode Summary: Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, and guest host Peyton Moran, all with Modern Mobility Partners, talk about what planners can do to conduct a comprehensive evaluation and prioritization process to match capital improvement plans with available funding. Listeners will learn the following in Episode 20:

• Understand why evaluating and prioritizing transportation projects is a critical component of the planning process.
• Obtain consensus among stakeholders on goals of the plan
• How to identify evaluation measures based on the agreed upon goals
• Incorporate community feedback into the prioritization process
• How to review and validate the process to be transparent and easy to understand by stakeholders and the public

Links:

• National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Green Light for Great Streets: https://nacto.org/publication/green-light-for-great-streets/agency-accelerators/pittsburgh-creating-a-process-to-prioritize-projects/
• NACTO Oakland Capital Improvement Program: https://nacto.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Capital-Project-Prioritization-in-Oakland.pdf
• Ohio Department of Transportation Safety Application Process: https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/264f1798-8de6-459c-b1cb-2dd4f80fafa3/FactSheet_FormalSafetyProcess.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CONVERT_TO=url&CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE.Z18_K9I401S01H7F40QBNJU3SO1F56-264f1798-8de6-459c-b1cb-2dd4f80fafa3-nZMhuLJ
• Hampton Road TPO 2045 Long Range Transportation Plan: https://www.hrtpo.org/page/project-prioritization/

Co-Hosts:

• Keli Kemp, AICP, PTP has 25 years of experience in transportation planning and consulting and co-founded Modern Mobility Partners in early 2018 with Jennifer Zhan. Keli holds a M.S. degree in Urban Planning from Texas A&M University.
• Kirsten Mote, AICP has over 14 years of experience in transportation planning and is certified by MIT Media Lab’s Beyond Smart Cities program. Kirsten is an Associate Vice President and Director of Smart Mobility Planning with Modern Mobility Partners. Kirsten holds a M.C.R.P degree in City Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Guest Speaker:

• Peyton Moran, AICP Candidate, is a transportation planner and travel demand modeler with Modern Mobility Partners. He joined MMP in 2021 after receiving his M.C.R.P degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently working on his MBA at Georgia State University.

Modern Mobility Partners is an Atlanta-based women and minority-owned transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm. Service areas include smart mobility and transportation planning, demand modeling and traffic engineering, and data analytics and visualization.

If you are interested in learning more about Modern Mobility Partners, please visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com.

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