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MPO presents Transportation Resilience Improvement Plan progress; staff aim for committee adoption by September
Summary
Lubbock MPO staff reported progress on a federally funded Transportation Resilience Improvement Plan that maps vulnerable road segments, inventories first responders and towing firms, and seeks to identify detour routes and projects that could be eligible for resilience funding.
Bill Frawley of the Lubbock MPO on May 20 presented a progress report on the federally supported Transportation Resilience Improvement Plan, describing the project’s goals, data sources and outreach schedule.
“What the resilience plan is all about,” Frawley said, “is looking at which roads of the transportation system … are vulnerable to certain types of threats in turn, that would lead to this roadway being disrupted.” He said the plan examines crash hot spots, flash flooding, ice, dust and wildfire smoke, and the availability of parallel roads that could provide redundancy for reroutes.
Frawley described using TxDOT’s CRIS crash data (currently through about 2023), media reports and federal crash databases to identify incidents that most frequently disrupt traffic. The plan team is building a road-segment matrix that records functional classification, key origins and destinations, vulnerabilities, and parallel routes. The project also includes an inventory of first responders, law enforcement, fire and EMS contacts and private wrecker companies; Frawley said tow companies often provide early estimates of closure duration and sometimes have portable livestock pens that can be used when livestock trucks overturn.
The plan will consider projects already in the MPO’s Transportation Improvement Program and Metropolitan Transportation Plan for potential resilience benefits and grant eligibility, Frawley said. He said staff are developing survey instruments, will offer a public survey in paper and electronic form, and were holding a stakeholder meeting the afternoon of May 20 with Lubbock Emergency Management and other agencies. Frawley said the MPO hopes the committee can adopt the final plan after review, targeting adoption by September.
Committee members asked about update frequency; Frawley recommended reviewing the plan every three to five years or when the TIP is updated and said the document can be amended quickly to record lessons learned after a major incident. No action was required; the item was presented as an informational report.
