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| APRIL 19 |
Overview of the Final Rule on Metropolitan and Statewide Transportation Planning: Part 4 of the SAFETEA-LU
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1-3 pm EDT.
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This two-hour live broadcast presented and discussed the final rule issued February 14, 2007, in the Federal Register on the metropolitan and statewide transportation planning provisions of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). The final rule revises regulations governing the development of metropolitan transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas, State transportation plans and programs, and the regulations for Congestion Management Systems.
Featured in the program were panelists from the Federal Transit Administration and the Federal Highway Administration headquarters. The panel provided an overview of the final rule, including those changes made following the receipt of public comments from the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) held in June-September 2006. This broadcast was part of the FTA and FHWA's public outreach efforts, and was also the fourth program in CTE’s series on SAFETEA-LU's transportation planning and environmental provisions.
This program provided valuable information for FTA and FHWA division and regional staff, State DOT and MPO staff, local planners, NEPA compliance administrators, other transportation decision-makers and stakeholders. The broadcast included a live interactive question and answer session between the panel and national audience participants. We invite you to continue and/or follow the discussion of key topics through CTE's "After The Program" Web-based discussion forum.
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Charles (Charlie) R. Goodman
Director, Systems Planning, Office of Planning and Environment
Federal Transit Administration Headquarters, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
As Director of Systems Planning, Charlie Goodman supports the agency’s efforts to implement the planning provisions of SAFETEA-LU, while promoting effective participation of transit operators in transportation planning processes nationwide. With the recent release of the Final Rule on Planning Regulation, Goodman and his staff are working jointly with FHWA to support full understanding and adherence to the Rule through program oversight, stewardship, and professional capacity-building involving guidance, training, technical assistance. Goodman’s office also promotes full involvement of transit operators in transportation planning, as documented in a recent report and current follow-up entitled, “Transit at the Table.” In this context, his office also supports coordination of various other FTA programs such as New Starts, Job Access/Reverse Commute, New Freedom, and Elderly and Disabled with metropolitan transportation planning. Prior to joining FTA, Goodman spent seven years with FHWA Headquarters’ planning and policy offices, and 14 years with Baltimore, MD. Goodman is an active member of several Transportation Research Board committees and an adjunct professor in land use, transportation, and comprehensive planning at Towson University.
Larry D. Anderson
Planning Oversight and Stewardship Team Leader, Office of Planning
Federal Highway Administration Headquarters, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
Larry Anderson has worked for FHWA since 1989 and assumed the duties of planning oversight and stewardship team leader in FHWA’s Office of Planning in Washington, DC, in May, 2003. In this position, Anderson leads a group responsible for developing and cascading program guidance to advance and support FHWA’s stewardship and oversight of the statewide and metropolitan transportation planning processes, in collaboration with the Federal Transit Administration. In his career with FHWA, Anderson has also served as assistant division administrator in the FHWA Ohio Division Office; planning and intermodal coordinator in the FHWA Florida Division Office, where he led the group responsible for administering the transportation planning (statewide and metropolitan), intermodal, environment, and research portions of the Federal-aid Highway Program throughout Florida; regional air quality specialist in the FHWA Region IV Office in Atlanta, Georgia, where he served as the key policy/technical advisor on the transportation/air quality planning provisions of the Federal-aid Highway Program (including the linkages to the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments); and assistant planning and intermodal coordinator in the FHWA Florida Division Office.
Victor Austin (Moderator)
Community Planner, Office of Planning and Environment
Federal Transit Administration Headquarters, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
Victor Austin began his career in transportation working with the Bi-State Development Agency in St. Louis, MO, after graduating from the University of Missouri in St. Louis. At Bi-State he held the positions of Senior Planner and Senior Capital Budget and Grants Analyst and was responsible for planning activities and developing the agency’s annual and long-range capital improvement program. Austin also worked for the Illinois Department of Transportation as a Program Manager and managed the development of the Illinois Downstate Area capital improvement program and the Transportation Improvement Program. At FTA’s Region V office in Chicago, Illinois, Austin worked as a Community Planner for eleven years before joining the Office of Planning and Environment (TPE) in Washington, DC in January, 2007. In the Region V office he provided technical assistance and oversight on a full range of metropolitan and statewide transportation planning activities including joint planning certification reviews, transit alternative analyses, and grant processing. Austin’s responsibilities at TPE include FTA’s outreach efforts on the Final Rule for planning, update of the certification (planning oversight) handbook to conform to SAFETEA-LU, and update of FTA’s circulars for Metropolitan and Statewide Transportation Planning.
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Overview of Program Agenda and Introduction of Panelists.
Victor Austion, FTA (Moderator)
PART I: Guiding Principles, Rulemaking Overview, and Key Changes from the NPRM.
Larry Anderson, FHWA
PART II: Scope of the Transportation Planning Process.
Charlie Goodman, FTA
Audience Questions & Discussion.
Panel w/Audience
PART III: Consultation / Participation Requirements.
Larry Anderson, FHWA
Audience Questions & Discussion.
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PART IV: Products from the Transportation Planning Process.
Charlie Goodman, FTA
Audience Questions & Discussion.
Panel w/Audience
Program Summary and Closing Remarks.
Victor Austin, FTA |
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