1. Presented by:
Cynthia Hoyle, FAICP
Transportation Planning Consultant
Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District
Orion Planning Group
IL-APA Chapter Conference
Evanston, IL
October 7, 2011 1
2. Located in the center of Illinois
Urbanized area has approximately
130,000 residents.
University has over 42,000 students
and 12,000 faculty and staff
UIUC geographically located in the
middle of the two cities. University is
split down the middle.
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3. Intensely urban campus
Urbana 35% of the work trips
are non-SOV
Community as a whole: non-
SOV commute to work rate is
23%
Average commute to work time
<15 minutes
High levels of transit service
Quality neighborhoods adjacent
to the campus many
faculty/staff walk, bike, or take
the bus to work
Students/faculty/staff have
universal access to the transit
system
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4. During the 1960’s-1990’s
non-auto trips declined
New developments
lacked interconnected
streets, access to transit,
walking, bicycling
Planning for multi-modal
community begins 2001
CUMTD adopted
Strategic Plan focused
on creating mobility
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5. Provide people with choices:
Invest in bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure
Calm traffic
Create Safe Routes to School
Build Transit Supportive development
Retrofit sprawling neighborhoods
Revitalize walkable neighborhoods
Education and Encourage Measuring the Health Effects of
Sprawl; Barbara McCann and Reid
Ewing; Smart Growth America and
Surface Transportation Policy Project,
2003
6. Infrastructure
Appropriate land-
use and design
Interconnect
modes, land-use,
and infrastructure
Social Marketing –
encouragement for
behavior change
7. MTD’s Mission… Leading the way to greater
mobility
MTD’s Vision…MTD goes beyond traditional
boundaries to promote excellence in transportation
Among MTD’s Goals:
MTD will encourage the use of alternative transportation
services to promote mobility in our community
Strategies included:
MTD should lobby for transit friendly development and
sustainable communities.
Advocate bicycle/pedestrian access improvements
http://www.cumtd.com/aboutmtd/PublicDocuments.aspx
8. Community Transportation Plans
Long Range Transportation Plan
2025 (LRTP 2025) adopted in 2004 by
Champaign-Urbana Urbanized Area
Transportation Study (CUUATS)
miPLAN – Mobility Implementation
Plan to implement LRTP 2025
Champaign Moving Forward -
Transportation Master Plan 2008
Update to Champaign’s
Comprehensive Plan
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9. Urbana Bicycle Plan –
Adopted plan becomes part of
Comprehensive Plan
Long Range Transportation
Plan 2035-
Adopted 2009
Champaign Tomorrow
Comprehensive Plan –
Adopted March 2011
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10. Express bus service between core and fringe areas of
the community
An enhanced arterial fringe road system that provides
improved mobility around the community
Transit intensive corridors
High capacity transit system in the University District
Mixed use, denser development and redevelopment
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11. Create higher population density, less sprawl
Promote alternative transportation modes
Save money on infrastructure
Create walkable activity centers and reduce reliance on
automobiles
Make travel safer for pedestrians and bicyclists
Increase mobility for motorists
Educate residents about alternative transportation
modes, safety, and new transportation concepts
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12. How do we implement the LRTP?
Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (CUMTD) funded
the Mobility Implementation Plan (miPLAN)
Goals for miPLAN:
•Develop cost effective mobility strategies to achieve
goal of 8% non-SOV trips within the CUMTD service
area by 2025
•Develop cost-effective mobility strategies to achieve
the CUMTD goal of 35% non-SOV work trips in the
CUMTD service area by 2015
•Develop specific implementation plan to institute the
mobility strategies to achieve the above
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13. Mobility
Enhanced
Development
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MED is defined as a
compact walkable
neighborhood with a
wide array of
transportation choices
for trips, frequent and
well –connected transit,
biking amenities, and
car-sharing. MED also
include diverse housing
stock, and a
concentration of small
retail and service-
oriented business that
meet day-to-day needs
of local residents.
15. Transportation costs in core significantly less than
fringe. Average $/month spent on transportation:
Core=$832 or less Fringe=$1372 or
less. (2004 data)
MED Recommendations:
Build on current density and urban form.
Maximize options and choices in alternative
forms of mobility.
Provide tools to create mixed-use, mixed-
income market-rate developments through infill
and redevelopment.
Maintain affordability through community
development programs and by factoring in both
household housing and transportation costs. 15
16. 1. Develop two alternative mobility
scenarios
2. Green Corridors analysis for
development of enhanced transit and
mobility options along with increased
densities and infill/redevelopment
(MED Feasibility)
3. Modeling of the mobility scenarios
using econometric, land-use
modeling and transportation
modeling (Benefit Preference Model
and Mode Choice Model)
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18. Identifies MED Opportunities MED Development Scenarios
Plan Process (public input) Policy and Implementation
Enhancing Connection Strategies
Between Transportation and Recommendations for
Land Use Implementation
Market Study
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19. Infill and
Increase population Attract 3,000 jobs to
redevelopment
w/in corridor area by the corridor area by
structures meet LEED
10,000 by 2025 2025
standards
Creating development
that reduces carbon
Develop mixed-use live- Increasing connectivity
emissions, energy
work-play between the U of I and
consumption, storm
environments the two downtowns
water run-off by the
LEED ND rating system
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20. Green Corridors –
Creating Sustainable
Neighborhoods
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What
might a
transit
intensive
corridor
look like?
29. CAR SHARE - ZIPCAR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL
BICYCLE FRIENDLY
COMMUNITY/BUSINESS
C-U SAFE ROUTES TO
SCHOOL PROJECT
REDUCED ANNUAL BUS PASS FROM (C-U SRTS ROJECT)
www.cu-srtsproject.com
$238 to $60 29
30. MPO expanded model to
county and added:
Social Cost of Alternative
Land Development
(SCALDS)
Mobile Source GHG
Emissions Model
(MOVES 2010a)
Emissions Analysis Tool
(EAT)
Neighborhood
Affordability and Livability
Index 30
31. Vision Statements: Key Theme:
Growing City Build a Complete Community:
Sustainable City A ‘Complete Community’ is one
Complete that accommodates the needs to
Neighborhoods all residents and users in a way
Community Identity that simplifies their everyday
Healthy City and lives. There are three focus areas,
Complete Public Complete Neighborhoods,
Facilities Complete Public Infrastructure
and Complete Streets.
http://ci.champaign.il.us/departments/planning/champaig
n-tomorrow-comprehensive-plan/
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32. Strategies:
• Become a multimodal, bike and pedestrian- friendly community that
supports sustainable transportation.
• Work with the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission to
implement the Bicycle Master Plan by implementing current
recommendations and by continuing to plan for bicycle facilities as the
city expands or redevelops.
• Support public transportation, including CUMTD improvements and
high-speed passenger rail.
• Consider ordinance amendment reducing the number of parking spaces
required for commercial developments.
http://urbanaillinois.us/council-goals
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33. Decrease in purchase of parking passes last 2 years (both
cities and the U of I)
Increase in transit ridership: 9% since August 2010
Decrease in fatalities per VMT 34% since 2008*
Retrofits of existing infrastructure/multi-modal
guidelines for new development
*CUUATS Choices 2035 LRTP Data Update, January 2011
http://www.ccrpc.org/transportation/pdf/LRTP2035/2010_LRTP_DataUpdate_Final.pdf
34. Conclusions
A sea
A seamless multimodal transportation
system requires building consensus at
a regional scale. We must ask: “How
do we make mobility easy and as
inexpensive as possible?”
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