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CVTA TAC leans to add separate activity-centers goal for transit scoring; forms subcommittee to refine safety measure
Summary
Staff presented three options for adding an activity-centers metric to transit project scoring and recommended creating a separate goal worth 20%. Members raised concerns that the safety measure skews results; TAC formed a subcommittee (Todd, Amy, Dorona, Frank, Tiffany/DRPT) to refine transit-specific metrics and will report back in December.
Miles, CBTA staff lead on scoring, told the Central Virginia Transportation Authority Technical Advisory Committee on Nov. 4 that staff tested three ways to incorporate “activity centers” into transit project scoring and is leaning toward creating a new, stand‑alone goal for activity‑center connection. "This is the one that staff is leaning toward," Miles said, describing a reweighting that would allocate 20% to activity centers while preserving the existing measures within the other goals.
The recommendation grew out of three tested scenarios: adding activity centers as a fifth measure under the existing accessibility goal with equal weighting; keeping activity centers inside accessibility but with a low weight; or creating a separate goal for activity‑center…
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