AGENDA #8

 

memorandum

to:

Roger L. Stancil, Town Manager

from:

J.B. Culpepper, Planning Director
David Bonk, Long Range Planning and Transportation Coordinator

subject:

Draft 2005 Chapel Hill Mobility Report Card

date:

January 22, 2007

PURPOSE

The purpose of this memorandum is to introduce the 2005 Chapel Hill Mobility Report Card (Attachment 1).  Adoption of the attached resolution would refer the Mobility Report Card to the Town Manager, Town Attorney, and advisory boards for comment.

BACKGROUND

One of the action items of the 2000 Chapel Hill Comprehensive Plan was to prepare a mobility report card to ensure that progress was being made to enhance the mobility of the citizens of Chapel Hill. Previous Mobility Report Cards were completed in 2001 and 2003. This 2005 Mobility Report Card represents a snapshot of mobility in Chapel Hill during the fall of 2005 and is a follow-up to the 2001 and 2003 Mobility Report Cards. While the 2001 and 2003 Report Cards were considered in the subsequent year, this Report Card has been delayed for a variety of factors, including: delays obtaining 24-hour traffic count and other data, the busy Council calendar, and coordination with Carrboro.  This and future updates to the Report Card are a means to monitor and evaluate progress towards town wide mobility goals.

The original report card focused on ten indicators to best balance the cost of data collection with the value of the resulting data in order to describe the current state of mobility within the Town and provide a meaningful baseline for future comparison. In 2003, a multimodal mobility indicator was added, which combines the other indicators into one overview of all modes. This Report Card adds a Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety indicator. The indicators analyzed in the Report include:

  1. Vehicular Activity and Arterial Level of Service
  2. Peak Hour Intersection Operations
  3. Vehicular Travel Time
  4. Pedestrian Facilities
  5. Pedestrian Activity
  6. Bicycle Facilities
  7. Bicycle Activity
  8. Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety
  9. Transit Service
  10. Transit Ridership
  11. Multimodal Mobility
  12. Office Parking

The 2005 Report Card allows for trend comparisons among these indicators with the two previous Report Cards. 

next steps

After receiving comments from the Town Advisory Boards, staff will return to the Council on March 26, 2007, with additional analysis of the Mobility Report Card and recommendations for future mobility studies.

recommendations

We recommend that the Council adopt the attached resolution which would refer the 2005 Mobility Report Card to the Town Manager, Town Attorney, Planning Board, Transportation Board, Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, Greenways Commission, and the Chapel Hill Active Living by Design Partnership Advisory Committee for comment.

ATTACHMENTS

1.      Draft 2005 Mobility Report Card (begins new page 1).