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Evaluation Criteria
- Mobility Benefits: The project reduces delays and back-ups at intersections, reduces travel times, improves access for transit, and improves pedestrian and bicycle transportation.
- Reduced delays/back-ups 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
- Reduced trip durations (also referred to as vehicle-hours traveled, VHT)
- Reduced trip lengths (also referred to as vehicle-miles traveled, VMT)
- Average system travel speeds
- Cost-Effectiveness: Considering the cost/benefit of the project and ability to phase the project over time.
- Order of magnitude costs
- Opportunity for phasing
- Economic Development Impact: The project strengthens the Island's economy by attracting visitors or encouraging appropriate types of businesses which in turn creates jobs and an expanded tax base.
- 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: Considering preservation of the Island's natural landscape (wetlands, floodplains, habitat, open spaces, historic areas), sustainability (vehicle emissions reductions), and the human environment (neighborhoods, schools, community facilities) which influence the overall quality of life on the Island.
- Study area intersection delays and 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: The project alternative is aligned with regional goals and municipal plans, goals, and visions so that the municipality will "champion" the project for implementation.
- 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 drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit riders; use of technology for incident or event management.
- 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 driveway/roadway access management (consolidation/elimination of access points on major roadways)
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