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MPO update: demographic projections, traffic model to 2055 and letting results discussed
Summary
Staff reported completion of demographic projections to inform the metropolitan transportation plan and described a new traffic model that will run no‑build and scenario analyses to 2055; committee members pressed on whether planned development and employment growth are included and staff offered a technical briefing. Recent bid results, including a $962,000 low bid for an emergency vehicle preemption project, were shared.
Tim, a staff member, told the committee that staff completed a demographic-projections exercise to estimate future housing and employment that will feed the metropolitan transportation plan. "We look at both estimates for future housing in the community and future employment," Tim said, adding that the projections will be used with a traffic model Doug is building.
Doug said the traffic model will run a "no-build" scenario using 2022 baselines and then add project scenarios to assess how proposals interact with the roadway network out to about 2055.…
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