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<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 3.2. S~~llI6A,RY
<br />10 Orange County's transportation system is often described as a network. The term network
<br />11 describes a collection of destinations and edges C~P7t]Q:C$%O/7S. 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. ~Edg-e~ GOf~~7~C~'1O/'IS are the routes ,people take to travel between nodes,
<br />15 between home and work, for instance. Destinations and ed-ge~ CO~1Y~Q'C~'i®P1S 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 ed-ges~
<br />19 Ctaili]~C~'9®~'1S, as well as traffic. All three components are essential for a logical, robust
<br />20 network.
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<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.
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<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 TRANSP©RTATIC7N PLANNING
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