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Metro Plan unveils regional project-mapping tool to prioritize roughly 2,000 transportation projects
Summary
Metro Plan transportation planner Mandia Gonzalez introduced 'Metrop Plan Connect,' a GIS platform aggregating about 2,000 projects from partner jurisdictions to help prioritize projects for grant applications, bundling and public transparency; the project will include a visual 'infrastructure dictionary' and filters for partners and the public.
Mandia Gonzalez, transportation planner with Metro Plan, told the committee Metro Plan has begun building 'Metrop Plan Connect,' a regional GIS-based platform that will map nearly 2,000 project recommendations drawn from roughly 60 regional plans to help jurisdictions prioritize and coordinate infrastructure projects.
"Our consultants have just kicked this off," Gonzalez said, describing work to map recommendations into a GIS with high-level filtering values adopted by Metro Plan’s technical and executive boards. She said the platform is intended to aid grant applications, bundling opportunities and multi-jurisdiction coordination and will be publicly accessible once partners finalize data and access protocols.
Gonzalez said the effort includes an "infrastructure dictionary," a visual glossary to standardize terminology (for example, what different "crossing" recommendations actually mean) so agencies can choose consistent design options. She estimated the draft with existing projects would be in a shareable state around September and said Metro Plan will continue refining details with partners.
Committee members asked whether public access would differ from partner or staff access and how the web map would surface project details and filters; Gonzalez said those access and functionality questions remain under discussion as the tool is developed. Staff and committee members welcomed the potential to search projects spatially and by topic and to use the tool in capital-improvement planning and grant coordination.
Metro Plan staff will share the tool with committee members when it reaches a usable stage for feedback and encouraged partners and developers to use the map to review recommendations in project areas.
The committee did not take formal action; staff said they will receive future demonstrations as the tool reaches milestones.
