Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA

Achieving the Vision: Strategies
Manage Transportation Assets
Many cities use Intelligent Transportation Systems, which
optimize signals, meter on-ramps, and track transit vehicles.
Combined with a Transportation Operations Center, this data
can be used to provide real-time information to motorists,
transit users, and transportation agencies. Finally, under a
Transportation Management Program, the city could work
directly with large employers and institutions to reduce overall
traffic demand with rideshare, car-pool, and transit
pass programs.
Use Context Sensitive Solutions
Context sensitive solutions (CSS) is an approach to
transportation planning and design that ensures new facilities are
well integrated with existing communities and serve all potential
users, from motorists to pedestrians. CSS employs flexibility
in project development and design to balance safety, mobility,
economic development, and environmental issues for new
and redesigned urban transportation facilities. The city should
use this approach by adopting the Institute of Transportation
Engineer’s Recommended Practice for Context Sensitive Urban
thoroughfares and consider the following broad policy changes.
A more thorough description of CSS is on page 27.
Modernize Transportation Funding
In cooperation with their regional transportation agencies,
many cities, such as Dallas, Seattle, and the San Francisco
have reallocated a portion of their discretionary federal and
state transportation programs from road-building to programs
and strategies that expand transportation choices. Tulsa, in
collaboration with surrounding communities, should advocate at
INCOG for a similar reallocation of some discretionary funds to
support improved integration of land use and transportation.
For example, Sustainable Development grant programs
use discretionary federal and state transportation funds to
support desired developments and planning efforts. These
competitive grant programs support projects that enhance the
effectiveness of transit, improve accessibility and mobility, and
expand housing choices. Funds can be awarded to help fund
infrastructure for mixed use, transit-supportive projects, or to
community groups to fund planning efforts.
CONTExT SENSiTiVE
SOLUTiONS FOr
TrANSPOrTATiON
“Context sensitive solutions (CSS) is a
collaborative, interdisciplinary approach
that involves all stakeholders to develop a
transportation facility that fits its physical setting
and preserves scenic, aesthetic, historic and
environmental resources, while maintaining
safety and mobility. CSS is an approach that
considers the total context within which a
transportation improvement project will exist.”
—Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
CSS ensures that transportation facilities
are designed for all users and complement
surrounding land uses.
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