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Attachment 9.0 <br />,. <br />1 ChApi~er 9. TYaysportAtvr~ tfeef7t' <br />2 9.1. PURP(3SE <br />3 This Transportation Element provides guidance and direction regarding future transportation <br />4 efforts in Orange County. The goals and objectives identified within this element serve as the <br />5 foundation for establishing future transportation policies and action strategies undertaken by <br />6 Orange County, its advisory boards, and staff. This specific process for developing a <br />7 transportation implementation strategy is outlined in Section 1.4; Administration and <br />8 Implementation Guidelines. <br />9 9.Z. SUMMARY <br />10 Orange County's transportation system is often described as a network. The term network <br />11 describes a collection of destinations and eelge~ COnneCtlOnS. On the ground in a <br />12 transportation network, the destinations would be areas where people live and destinations <br />13 people have outside their homes, places like work, shopping centers, parks, government <br />14 offices, etc. {~ge~s COnneCtiOnS are the routes people take to travel between nodes, <br />15 between home and work, for instance. Destinations and edges GUn/7eCt%Ot1S together can <br />16 be viewed as the physical structure of a transportation network. Another term, traffic, is used <br />17 to name the activity that takes place on the network. <br />18 Planning for a transportation system requires planning for destinations and edges <br />19 connections, as well as traffic. All three components are essential for a logical, robust <br />20 network. <br />21 <br />22 Orange County's transportation network is comprised of a hierarchy of roads that moves <br />23 automobiles and provides access to land developments, railroad lines that allow freight and <br />24 commuter trains to move through the County, bicycle routes that provide access to points of <br />25 interest and recreational trails, and local sidewalks and pedestrian facilities that foster walking <br />26 in neighborhoods, downtowns, and at commercial and employment centers. <br />27 <br />28 While the County, in partnership with the Towns of Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and <br />29 Mebane, has been along-standing proponent of a multi-modal transportation system, more <br />30 can be done to encourage non-automobile forms of transportation. New facilities and <br />31 improvements are needed to encourage a more efficient and effective transportation system <br />32 that achieves the County's goals of achieving long-term sustainability and maintaining Orange <br />33 County's distinctive community character. <br />34 TRANSPURTATtON Pt~1NNtNG <br />35 . R~~~. ~ ~~~ <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 , <br />41 <br />~ <br />- - <br />- '. <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />