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Fairfax staff outline Comprehensive Transportation Analysis to weigh pedestrian, bicycle, transit and vehicle trade'offs
Summary
County transportation staff described a new CTA framework to add pedestrian level of comfort, bicycle level of traffic stress, transit access and crash severity to traditional vehicular metrics; supervisors asked how the metrics will be used in entitlement, equity screening and the Transportation Priorities Plan.
Fairfax County Department of Transportation staff presented a new Comprehensive Transportation Analysis (CTA) framework intended to expand traffic studies beyond traditional vehicle'centric measures.
"The purpose is to collect data to make more meaningful decisions," said Tim Kutz, transportation planner, describing CTA as the codification of additional measures of effectiveness developed with stakeholders from 2020'2022. He said the CTA will not prescribe fixes but will quantify tradeoffs between vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and transit so decisionmakers can weigh competing objectives.
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