FY2026 Work Program

Promote transportation facilities and land use decisions that make active modes of transportation more safe, convenient, affordable, and attractive options throughout the region.

DVRPC seeks to create an environment where people of all ages choose to bike and walk as part of an active, healthy, and environmentally-friendly lifestyle. The main priority of this program is to work with municipalities, counties, and our other planning partners to develop and maintain safe bicycle and pedestrian facilities that enhance local mobility. Work will be integrated across DVRPC offices or partner agencies to best meet the needs of the planning partner.

Projects will emphasize stakeholder outreach, the development and sharing of new data resources, including bicycle and pedestrian counts, and analysis and design necessary to develop appropriate, safe, and context-sensitive bicycle and pedestrian facilities and complete streets in communities throughout the DVRPC region. This program supports DVRPC's participation in state, regional, and local bicycle and pedestrian advisory or policy committees, helping to shape and promote constructive bicycle and pedestrian direction and policy. The program also provides for DVRPC staff to provide subject matter expertise and application review for competitive grant programs in both states. 

This work includes an emphasis on bicycle and pedestrian policy, design and infrastructure that increases personal health, as well as the health of the environment and economic vitality in the region. That might include a focus on work in areas with a greater degree of disadvantage or where better connections can be made to public transportation. Projects may be jointly funded, and conducted collaboratively, with the Regional Transit Planning Program. Some of these activities may also require DVRPC to purchase materials, supplies, and other services to meet program goals.

1. Provide technical analysis and facilitation to support regional partners as they pursue planning and implementation of pedestrian and bicycle networks in the region.
2. Develop and host approximately four "special topic" workshops that address safety, environmental and/or placemaking strategies that can be applied throughout the region. Requested topics to be included wholly or in combination with additional similar topics include: severe weather and paving, life cycle cost analysis of temporary materials, open streets events, and "green" alleys. Workshop deliverables will be designed for ongoing use and reference such as memos, video recordings and/or podcasts. Workshops are supported across multiple program areas including Clean Power Initiatives (26-33-030), Environmental Planning (26-33-040), Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning (26-52-020), Mobility Analysis and Design (26-52-030), and Transportation Safety (26-52-040). 
3. Support Office fo Safe Streets to conduct Vision Zero corridor safety studies, focused on priority corridors from the Regional High Injury Network. The bulk of this work is funded separately via the 25-52-190 Regional Vision Zero Plan Supplemental Planning and Partner Support project.
4. Continue development of the Regional Sidewalk Technical Assistance Program in pursuit of a region sidewalk network in better condition and with greater coverage by:
   • Supporting the use and application of DVRPC's regional sidewalk inventory, network connectivity analysis, and sidewalk construction analysis tools to address sidewalk gaps in the region.
   • Continue working with SEPTA to identify and fund design of sidewalk projects around transit stops and stations through the FTA Areas of Persistant Poverty grant. 
   • Convening counties and other partners to share information and best practices for expanding and maintaining sidewalk and pedestrian infrastructure.
   • Continue to provide technical assistance to municipalities by pursuing competitive grant funding for sidewalk maintenance and replacement.
5. Support partner agencies in using DVRPC pedestrian and bicycle planning tools such as the Bicycle Level of Traffic Stress (LTS), Connectivity Analysis webtool, LINK and other data and analysis tools that are developed, as appropriate.
6. Together with the Office of Travel Monitoring, continue bicycle and pedestrian count work including:
   • Conduct counts at roughly 1/5 of the locations for the Cyclical Pedestrian Counting program in the PA counties.
   • Conduct counts at roughly 1/3 of the locations for the regional cyclical bicycle count program.
   • Conduct project counts throughout the region, as needed and as capacity permits.
   • Provide periodic summaries of trends, before/after monitoring, and other relevant summaries analyzed from DVRPC's bicycle and pedestrian count program with the aim of making count data more accessible and understandable to the broadest range of planning partners, including NJDOT, PennDOT, counties, municipalities, and the general public working to improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.
7. Participate and support pedestrian and bicycle advisory boards: the NJ Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Council (NJ BPAC) in New Jersey, Pedalcycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (PPAC) in Pennsylvania; and support member government efforts in Complete Streets, Vision Zero, green stormwater infrastructure, and placemaking.
8. Review bicycle and pedestrian project funding applications for programs such as Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TASA), Safe Routes to School (SRTS), and Pennsylvania's Multimodal Transportation Fund (PA MTF), as appropriate.
9. Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) review and comment on potential pedestrian and bicycle facilities for PennDOT projects through the PennDOT Connects program.

State DOTs, transit operators, counties, municipalities, pedestrians, bicyclists, the commuting public, and all users of roadways.