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Evaluation Criteria
- Mobility Benefits:
- Reduced delays/queues for vehicles at intersections
- Travel time differences
- Improved mobility for bicyclists and pedestrians
- Improved access for transit
- Physical or operational enhancement to bus, rail, ferry, and parking systems
- Study area vehicle-hours traveled (VHT)
- Study area vehicle-miles traveled (VMT)
- Average system travel speeds (VMT/VHT)
- Cost-Effectiveness and Economic Development Impact:
- Order of magnitude costs
- Opportunity for phasing
- Impacts to existing economic bases
- Economic development potential (enhanced access/travel time savings to existing and targeted commercial/industrial development areas)
- Improved access to vacant and underutilized sites
- Enhances opportunities for transit-oriented development
- Environmental Impacts:
- Study area VMT, VHT, and intersection delay improvements to air quality (including greenhouse gas reductions)
- Potential for vehicle trip reductions due to mode shifts/reduced reliance on automobiles
- Direct impacts to natural environment (wetland/habitat/open space/historic areas/conservation areas/others)
- Impacts to human environment (residential/business/schools/community facilities benefits and impacts, environmental justice)
- Degree of Local Support and State Goals and Plans:
- Consistency with municipal plans, goals, and visions
- Concurrence by Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport officials
- Support from implementing agency
- Safety, Security, and Technology:
- Safer conditions for pedestrians
- Safer conditions for bicyclists
- Potential for crash reductions (direct improvement to intersection)
- Potential for crash reductions (indirect benefit from traffic shifts)
- Impacts to emergency response
- Improved access management
- Use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and technology for congestion/incident management
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