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This document contains a listing of all transit, highway, bridge, bicycle, pedestrian, and multimodal projects in the Delaware Valley Region which will seek federal funding in fiscal years 2001 to 2003 in New Jersey and 2001 to 2004 in Pennsylvania. Also included is a description of the planning process and the roles of the numerous agencies repsonsible for planning, scheduling and implementing these…

This document presents a transportation improvement plan for the NJ 73 Corridor in Burlington County and Camden County. The corridor planning effort undertakes the traditional examinations of an existing transportation/circulation system, in this case NJ 73 and surrounding facilities, identifying safety and functional or operational problems and recommending potential solutions, as appropriate. This…

This report documents a comprehensive land use and transportation evaluation for seven municipalities located in Central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The work augments planning activities conducted independently by the study area municipalities through adoption of a multi-modal area-wide perspective, application of regional planning initiatives (PA Congestion Management Systems, Mobility Alternatives…

In December 1998 DVRPC released a report entitled The Future of First Generation Suburbs in the Delaware Valley, which defined the economic disadvantages facing older "first generation" suburbs. The term "first generation suburb" generally refers to the earliest townships and boroughs to develop outside a region's central city. In the Delaware Valley, these include older boroughs scattered across the…

DVRPC NEWS is published by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Office of Communications & Public Affairs. DVRPC News is funded through grants from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the Pennsylvania & New Jersey Departments of Transportation, & DVRPC's member governments.

As a component of the Pennsylvania Congestion Management System, this report provides an examination of congestion at key intersections and arterial segments within the US 1/Baltimore Pike Corridor in Delaware County, and identifies improvement strategies that are both practical and implementable. The 14 most congested intersections and selected corridors were examined in detail and proposed measures…

This data bulletin contains 1990 -1999 building permit data for the extended 28-county data cservice region.

This report summarizes the results of a survey of business executives performed in the fall of 1999 to gauge their opinions on the most crucial transportation-related projects over the next 25 years. The input of the business community is essential in determining what types of transportation projects should be encouraged, and in what areas of the region, in order to aid in the Delaware Valley Region's…

A synthesis effort to inventory truck trip generation studies is currently being conducted on a national level to standardize data collection efforts and serve as an endorsed source for truck trip generation information. The need stems from a recognition of the crucial importance that freight movement plays in the national economy and the absence of reliable information to understand and plan for…

This is a systems level study, which provides a corridor wide analysis of the US 130 corridor in Burlington County. Undertaken at the request of New Jersey Department of Transportation, the study was conducted to determine the adaptability of the transportation management systems of the New Jersey Department of Transportation and the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission to the corridor planning…