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Chapter 9: Transportation Element <br />.,. <br />2 ^ Long-Range Transportation Plan. The plan is a guide for major transportation <br />3 investments in the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />4 Organization area. It is designed to support land use and air quality goals for <br />5 the urban area, and is prepared in accordance with federal requirements. The <br />6 plan projects the amount and type of transportation demand over a 20-year <br />7 minimum period, and is updated every four years to <br />8 demonstrate compliance with air quality standards. It <br />9 identifies priority highway, bus transit, rail transit, bicycle, and pedestrian <br />10 improvements needed to service future populations, and the projected costs of <br />11 these improvements. The Long Range Transportation Plan is <br />12 fiscally constrained and identifies viable anticipated <br />13 funding sources for proiects proposed in the plan. <br />14 ~- <br />15 __ _ , <br />16 <br />17 - ~,.~~mtR,~~ ~~a~~, <br />18 <br />19 ~ Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program. <br />20 , <br />21 , <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />2s This program is a seven year document that is included in <br />26 the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program and <br />27 contains funding and schedulin_g information for bicycle: <br />28 pedestrian, highway, rail, public transportation, and <br />29 enhancement protects. Every two years, the Metropolitan <br />3o Planning Organization develops a prioritizeaf list of <br />31 protects to be considered for funding in the biennial <br />32 update of the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement <br />33 Program. Projects must come from adopted <br />34 transportation plans. <br />35 -- <br />36 , <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 , <br />40 ~- <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 , <br />4~a.~~Co-uftity CompF-eh.~ive~~T.a~w Public Hearing Draft 5-6-08 Page 9-5 <br />