Area

General Goals # BAC Adopted Goals BAC-Adopted Objectives Measures

Social

Minimize negative impacts on land and associated uses.

Maximize safety

  • Operation
  • Emergency Response
  • Redundancy
 1 Enhance emergency management options to alternate routes in case of flood, natural disaster or accident Redundancy of the transportation network and cross-river linkages during times of accident, flooding, or other natural disaster. Number and type of improvements impacted (in specified width acres and type of land uses.
Anticipated potential reduction in accidents and/or fatalities.
Response times, selected trips.
Number of potential single services situations

Economic

Increased network performance to increase area attractiveness and competitiveness
  • Congestion
  • Travel times
  • Total travel
  • Maximize accommodation of heavy and large vehicles

 

Costs

  • Capital
  • User

 

 

Access

  • Existing industrial and commercial
  • Potential industrial and commercial
  • Linkages to external markets

 

 

Identify and propose implementable solutions

  • Technical
  • Fiscal

 

2 Draw more traffic and commerce into the Upper Ohio Valley. Build an effective transportation network that will become a regional strength and draw additional traffic and customers into the Steubenville - Weirton Marketplace. % of system at each LOS level.
3 Improve travel times throughout the region. Establish time of travel as a critical planning criterion Vehicle hours of travel (VHT).
Vehicle hours of travel (VHT)
4 Ensure the cross-river transport network is sufficiently robust to carry all weights and sizes of commercial vehicles. Establish planning criteria for Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania that track transportation benefits from river crossing improvements. Number of bridges, miles of road, legal limit.
Construction and major renovation.
Road user costs (AASHTO Red Book).
5 Maintain and enhance transportation for existing business. Provide alternative and redundant routes for truck traffic, alleviate congestion, and maintain an acceptable minimum level of service. Number of sites served (by size and type).
 
6 Provide access for expanding business (industry/retail). Identify transportation improvements that better tie together the BHJ region with adjacent economic market areas. Number of sites served (by size and type).
 
7 Develop linkages to high capacity intermodal transportation. Improve access to rail and river port facilities Average travel time, selected external zones to selected internet zones.
Subjective engineering judgment based on technical standards
Subjective, based on cost and likely funding available.
Environmental Minimize impact on physical environment and ecology.

Minimize air and noise pollution.

8 A bridge system that preserves and enhances the environmental characters of the BHJ region. Sponsor transportation improvements that have no adverse impact on air quality, historical resources, and cultural (environmental justice) issues. Number of identifiable instances of potential damage.
Estimated vehicle emissions.

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