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Comprehensive Transportation Plan |
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| North Carolina General Statute 136-66.2
requires each municipality or MPO, with the cooperation of the NCDOT,
to develop a Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) serving present
and anticipated travel demand in and around the municipality or MPO.
What is a Comprehensive Transportation Plan?
A Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) is North Carolina’s
multi-modal transportation plan. The CTP includes community consensus
on future transportation needs required to support anticipated growth
and development. It is a multi-modal plan that identifies the future
transportation system needs and includes highways, public
transportation, rail, and bicycle facilities needed to serve the
anticipated travel demand. The CTP is more environmentally and
community friendly, it strengthens the connections between an area’s
transportation plan, adopted local land development plan, and
community vision and a CTP is a mutually adopted legal document
between the state and the Metropolitan Planning organization. When a
CTP is adopted by the NCDOT it represents the state’s concurrence with
the locally identified transportation needs. Ultimately, the CTP will
replace MUMPO’s existing Thoroughfare Plan.
What are the benefits of using the CTP process?
The CTP has many benefits, including:
It supports community vision and goals by
integrating land use and transportation;
It allows communities to consider all modes, not
just road improvements, for the future transportation system;
It is more efficient for MPOs because it ties the
CTP and federal Long Range Transportation Plan processes together;
and
The CTP process provides a direct link to project
development – Once a project is funded it must go through an
extensive project development process, including an environmental
review.
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Contact Us |
Legal Notices
Official Mecklenburg-Union
Metropolitan Planning Organization Web Site
For more information regarding
Mecklenburg-Union Metropolitan Planning Organization,
Please contact:
Bob Cook
600 E. Fourth Street
8th Floor
Charlotte, NC 28202-2853
(704) 336-2205
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