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MPO planners update TIP and 2050 MTP; consultant debuts interactive transportation web portal
Summary
The Chisholm Trail MPO provided a short update on the TIP and long‑range Metropolitan Transportation Plan; consultant Poe and Associates outlined a year‑long schedule and demonstrated a public-facing data portal for traffic, pavement, safety and demographic dashboards.
Taylor, the MPO planner, provided a quarter‑two update to the mayor and commissioners on the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) and said the MPO is in the middle of a TIP update with a 21‑day public comment period that opened Oct. 1 and closed the day of the meeting; public hearings are scheduled for Nov. 5 and Nov. 12.
Taylor said the TIP covers four years and is updated every two years; she outlined project budget highlights and said the higher 2026 budget figure reflects a Vance Trail project plus related utilities and right‑of‑way work for an Owen K. to Garland to Van Buren segment. She explained that functional class updates moved five streets to principal arterials (Willow, Randolph, Roop, Garland and Cleveland) to better reflect their roles and funding eligibility.
Craig Moody of Poe and Associates presented the 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan scope and schedule and said the consultant team has kicked off the year‑long plan development. Moody said the plan will include existing conditions, performance‑based analysis, revenue forecasting and project prioritization and that a draft plan is expected in spring with adoption planned in 2026.
Poe and Associates’ deputy project manager, Jeremy Plantine, demonstrated a public web portal and interactive dashboards that the consultant team has built for the MPO. The portal includes: a mobile‑friendly “mark the map” safety survey and project suggestion tool; dashboards of CERB and STIP projects; pavement condition and bridge inventories; traffic and truck‑route maps; collision and safety data (current through about 2022–2023, with a lag noted for the most recent years); and demographic/ACS indicators to support equity and planning analyses. The presenters said most external data sources (ODOT, FHWA, FTA) are fed in real time and can be filtered for city, MPO or statewide views.
Moody said the firm bought StreetLight data for trip analysis and will use it to analyze congestion and travel patterns. He listed key stakeholders and invited additional names for stakeholder outreach. He said public engagement will include surveys, in‑person events and coordination with city communications, and that the portal will be opened to the public in draft form for feedback.
Commissioners asked about funding levels, default data views and training for staff and the public. Taylor and the consultants said Enid’s available planning funding and match were described in the presentation (planning funds near $100k per year from FHWA sources and FTA transit funds around $20k–27k per year) and that training and tutorials could be provided to city staff and the public.
