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Attachment 9.0 55 <br />~tr~~er~ ~ 'r~r~.s~~i~~~%~~ Element <br />2 9.1. Pt1RPC)5E <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 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />9.2. SU~tIMAR1( <br />Orange County's transportation system is often described as a network. The term network <br />describes a collection of destinations and edges COnneCt%011S. On the ground in a <br />transportation network, the destinations would be areas where people live and destinations <br />people have outside their homes, places like work, shopping centers, parks, government <br />offices, etc. f~ges GOnf7eCt%Ot7S are the routes people take to travel between nodes, <br />between home and work, for instance. Destinations and edges COnneCt/O/1S together can <br />be viewed as the physical structure of a transportation network. Another term, traffic, is used <br />to name the activity that takes place on the network. <br />Planning for a transportation system requires planning for destinations and edges <br />connect%ons, as well as traffic. All three components are essential for a logical, robust <br />network. <br />Orange County's transportation network is comprised of a hierarchy of roads that moves <br />automobiles and provides access to land developments, railroad lines that allow freight and <br />commuter trains to move through the County, bicycle routes that provide access to points of <br />interest and recreational trails, and local sidewalks and pedestrian facilities that foster walking <br />in neighborhoods, downtowns, and at commercial and employment centers. <br />While the County, in partnership with the Towns of Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and <br />Mebane, has been along-standing proponent of a multi-modal transportation system, more <br />can be done to encourage non-automobile forms of transportation. New facilities and <br />improvements are needed to encourage a more efficient and effective transportation system <br />that achieves the County's goals of achieving long-term sustainability and maintaining Orange <br />County's distinctive community character. <br />TRANSPORTATION PLANNING <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />• ~ ~ , <br /> <br /> <br />