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The CMP newsletter series focuses on congested subcorridors in the Delaware Valley, alternating between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This edition highlights the US 422 corridor, helping to introduce a land use and multimodal transportation study underway in 2008-2009

Between 2000 and 2006 there were 210 reported pedestrian-motorist crashes in nine PennDOT-defined pedestrian crash priority clusters on intersecting a four-mile-long segment of North Broad Street (PA 611) from Diamond to Nedro streets, possibly the heaviest concentration of such crashes in the entire Pennsylvania state highway system. Police reports for these crashes were coded and analyzed using……

Appendix A: Municipal Parking Standards Inventory is the separately published inventory of municipal parking standards for all 353 municipalities in the Delaware Valley region, part of the report, The Automobile at Rest: Towards Better Parking Policies in the Delaware Valley. Each of the region's municipalities set their own parking requirements within their municipal zoning ordinance, usually based……

The Automobile at Rest: Toward Better Parking Policies in the Delaware Valley presents an overview of parking policies and requirements in the Delaware Valley region, along with strategies for managing and designing parking better. Each of the region's 353 municipalities set their own parking requirements within their municipal zoning ordinance, usually based on national standards from the Institute……

This Long-Range Vision for Transit highlights the potential benefits of an improved transit network to the DVRPC region in the coming decades. The region's current transit assets already represent a significant competitive advantage amid rising energy costs and concerns about climate change. That said, the region is not yet one in which transit can be taken for granted by passengers throughout the……

Each fiscal year, DVRPC is responsible for issuing an annual report that summarizes the programs and projects that comprise the annual planning work program. This Annual Report features highlights of the Commission's many programs, a message from the Executive Director and Board Chair, a listing of Board members and committees, a financial summary, and unique characteristics of each county and major……

The evaluations summarized in this report were performed in support of PennDOT's statewide effort to promote the establishment of formal access management ordinances for state and local highways. A case study of Durham Road (PA 413), between PA 232 and the Newtown Bypass, was conducted and a conceptual plan prepared for a segment of Durham Road as a tangible illustration of the benefits of planning……

The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) document includes (1) a description of the TIP public involvement process, including how DVRPC has met the requirements of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, (2) copies of the comments received by both DVRPC member agencies and the public, (3) agency responses to the public comments, and (4) documentation relating to the public outreach.

The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) document contains a listing of all transit, highway, bridge, bicycle, pedestrian, and multimodal projects in the Pennsylvania Subregion which will seek federal funding in fiscal years 2009 to 2012. This volume also contains the following two appendices: (a) Financial Guidance used in developing the program, (b) documentation on the air quality conformity……

The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) document contains a listing of all transit, highway, bridge, bicycle, pedestrian, and multimodal projects in the New Jersey Subregion which will seek federal funding in fiscal years 2009 to 2012. This volume also contains the following two appendices: (a) Financial Guidance used in developing the program, (b) documentation on the air quality conformity finding,……