Transportation
Programs and Projects
As
the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization
(MPO), Salem-Keizer Area Transportation
Study (SKATS) coordinates the regional
transportation planning process and investments
for the area. This includes:
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Producing
and adopting the Air
Quality Conformity Determinations
for the RTSP and TIP, which are required
to ensure compliance with federal and
state air quality conformity requirements
and federal transportation planning
requirements.
- Developing and adopting an annual Unified Planning Work Program in which the tasks that SKATS staff will perform during the fiscal year are identified.
The MPO is advised by the SKATS Technical
Advisory Committee (TAC) and directed by
the Policy Committee
(PC). Agendas and minutes are available
here.
Public
Participation
An
extensive public involvement process is
associated with each of the major planning,
programming, and project decisions made
by the SKATS Policy Committee. The Public
Participation Plan for the Regional Transportation
Planning Process in the Salem-Keizer Urban
Area, adopted September 26, 2006, serves
as a guide for that process to ensure the
ongoing opportunity for broad-based public
participation in the development and review
of regional transportation plans, programs,
and projects.
Getting
You From Here to There briefly describes
the SKATS regional transportatoin planning
process, in relation to transportation planning
at the local and state levels.
Current
and Recently Completed Transportation Studies
SKATS
aids, coordinates, finances, or performs
transportation planning studies throughout
the region. A few of these projects are:
High Priority
Transportation Corridor Study
Willamette
River Crossing Capacity Study
SKATS has developed a travel
demand model used to forecast travel
patterns and traffic volumes on existing
and proposed roadways and streets.
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