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Maryland Transportation Plan 2009. An update is underway.

Consolidated Transportation Program, Transportation Improvement Program, and Constrained Long Range Plan

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http://www.baltometro.org/about-bmc/linking-policy-2;
http://www.mwcog.org/transportation/tpb/;
http://www.hepmpo.net/index.html;
http://gov.allconet.org/mpo/index.html;
http://www.wilmapco.org/;
http://www.swmpo.org/default.asp

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Maryland Aviation Administration (http://www.marylandaviation.com); Maryland Department of Transportation (http://www.mdot.maryland.gov ); Maryland Ports Administration (http://www.mpa.maryland.gov ); Maryland Transit Administration (http://mta.maryland.gov ); Maryland Transportation Authority (http://www.mdta.maryland.gov ); Motor Vehicle Administration (http://www.mva.maryland.gov ); Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (http://www.wmata.com)

Annotated Code of Maryland

http://statutes.laws.com/maryland/transportation/title-8

The State Highway Administration (SHA) plans, designs, constructs and maintains the State Highway System in Maryland. The State Highway System, totaling more than 5,266 miles or 15,421 lane miles** of roadway and more than 2,578 bridges, consists of the Interstate, Primary and Secondary Highways. SHA has approximately 3,000 employees working in 16 specialized offices, 7 District Offices, and 28 Maintenance Shops. The District Offices and Maintenance Shops are located in various parts of the state.

The highway system is the backbone of Maryland’s transportation system, providing mobility and access for people and goods from and through the State of Maryland. SHA maintained roads carry 66 percent of the state’s traffic, and 86 percent of its freight. SHA delivers about $1 billion of projects each year, many of which are competitively awarded to private entities, sustaining thousands of jobs in the highway industry for construction contractors, materials suppliers, maintenance contractors and small businesses.
Key Performance Area Goals

 Improve highway safety in Maryland.

 Support Maryland’s economy and communities with reliable movement of people and goods.

 Maintain a high-quality highway system.

 Effectively manage project delivery and finance, workforce, information technology and civil rights programs.

 Develop and maintain Maryland state highways in an environmentally responsible manner.

 Work together to serve our customers and listen to their priorities and needs.

Local roads and streets are owned and maintained by the local governments.

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Highway Safety
 Continue to partner with the Motor Vehicle Administration and Maryland State Police on Towards Zero Deaths program goals through continued strategic investments in highway safety improvements, as well as education and enforcement opportunities

 For the 6th year in a row, Maryland’s highway fatalities dropped. In 2011, 488 people died in crashes, continuing the downward trend from 2006 when 651 people lost their lives.

 Maryland travelers buckled up 94% of the time, one of the highest rates of compliance in the United States.

 SHA began issuing electronic hauling permits for oversize/overweight trucks, saving time and paper.

 Speeding violations in SafeZones construction sites have decreased by more than 80% (see chart on right) – when the program began, approximately 7 out of 100 drivers in the SafeZones construction areas received citations for exceeding the speed limit by 12 mph or more, and currently, less than 2 out of every 100 drivers are receiving citations.
 
Mobility and Economy

 SHA increased camera video feed interoperability with other regional agencies to allow for access to more than 600 camera sites in Maryland, improving traffic monitoring and emergency response.

 SHA’s Coordinated Highways Action Response Team (CHART) incident management program responded to and cleared more than 17,000 incidents and assisted more than 27,000 stranded motorists.

 SHA installed pavement markings on 57.9 miles of highway for bicycle access, a 9% increase from FY 2011.

 62.3% of sidewalks on SHA-maintained roadways are ADA compliant, a 2% increase from FY 2011.

System Preservation and Maintenance

 SHA repaired or replaced 18 bridges that were rated structurally deficient. While other aging bridges were added to the list, the total number of bridges rated structurally deficient decreased for the 6th year in a row from 143 in 2006 to 97 in 2012.

 SHA exceeded standards for overall level of service for maintenance with a 85% rating.

Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
Highway safety is the number one priority of SHA. The Maryland Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is a statewide, coordinated, comprehensive, traffic safety plan that provides the framework for reducing highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public streets and highways. It establishes overall goals and objectives as well as objectives and strategies within each of six key emphasis areas. The Strategic Highway Safety Plan is a working document designed to cover the years 2011 through 2015.

Despite increases in vehicle miles traveled, reported traffic crashes declined in Maryland, dropping to a historic low of 96,392 in 2009. Between 2005 and 2009, the number of fatalities decreased by 10.4 percent, overall injuries decreased by 14.4 percent, and serious injuries declined by 39.9 percent. To continue this positive trend, Maryland updated the SHSP in 2010 under the direction of the SHSP Management and Implementation Teams.
Maryland joined AASHTO, other national organizations and several other states in adopting a Toward Zero Deaths fatality goal to reduce motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries by one-half by 2030. To monitor progress toward this goal, Maryland approved interim fatality targets for the life of the SHSP, representing an average annual decrease of 3.1 percent. Each emphasis area also adopted measurable fatality and injury objectives in line with these goals.

Comprehensive Highway Corridors (CHC)
In order to improve transportation, environmental, and livability conditions for Maryland residents and visitors, SHA has initiated major planning efforts to improve critical highway corridors. SHA is also committed to integrating safety, mobility, environmental stewardship, and socio-economic objectives in its transportation planning process and Comprehensive Highway Corridors (CHC) program.

The CHC Program incorporates sustainable practices (Environmental, Social, and Economic) into design and studies ways to integrate sustainability into the transportation planning process for surface transportation facilities and operations. Exploring issues associated with social, economic and environmental sustainability trade-offs including the vision of a sustainable transportation system, the state of the practice and strategies for integrating sustainability concepts into transportation planning.

The purpose of this program is to identify opportunities for environmental stewardship along highway corridors, consider Maryland’s Action Plan on Climate Change, Green House Gas (GHG) reductions, and Watershed Planning and Environmental Banking. The CHC program is implemented in three phases:

Phase 1 – Conduct a pilot project on US 15 corridor in Frederick County;

Phase 2 – Development of analytical methods for the planning-level sustainability impact of multimodal improvements on highway corridors, and refine and improve the existing Model Of Sustainability And Integrated Corridors (MOSAIC) modules by both developing improved impact evaluation methods and replacing model parameters based on national-level analysis with Maryland-specific parameters.

Phase 3 – Development of a guidance document; and study of more corridors in the future as this program is further developed and refined.
Phase 1 was completed in 2012. Phase 2 is currently underway, and is expected to be complete in 2014. Phase 3 is waiting for the funding, and will be implemented after the completion of Phase 2 in 2014.

Average temperature of the Chesapeake Bay has warmed by 2° F over the same time period. Average precipitation has increased by 10 percent throughout most of Maryland and the entire Mid-Atlantic region of the US has received 12-20 percent more major weather events relative to the previous century. The sea level along the Maryland coastline has risen at a rate of 3-4 mm/year (.14 inch/year) over the last century – nearly twice the global average of 2 mm/year (.08 inch/year). Climate models suggest these trends will continue while the frequency and severity of extreme events are likely to increase as well.

Climate Change Initiatives
Maryland has 4,360 miles of tidal shoreline and is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Since 1900, the average temperature in Maryland has increased about 2° F (1° C), average precipitation has increased by 10 percent, and sea-level in the Chesapeake Bay region has increased by 1 foot. Sea level is predicted to rise an additional 2-3 feet by 2100. An estimated 400,000 acres of land on the Eastern Shore is gradually becoming submerged and the State is currently losing approximately 580 acres of shoreline per year to erosion. SHA evaluates and adapts transportation infrastructure to account for these predicted land changes.

The transportation sector contributes 32% of all Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) in Maryland, of which, 92% are from on-road vehicles. Due to the significant percentage of GHG contributions from transportation, the transportation sector including SHA is considering plans to reduce GHG emissions. Although these emissions are largely contributed by mobile sources beyond the control of the transportation agencies, there are ways we can apply mitigation strategies to reduce emissions.

In 2010, SHA Strategic Plan for Climate Change was developed with a vision, mission, and strategy to address the changing clime and its impact to the transportation infrastructure. Please see the SHA Strategic Plan link for more information (http://shaintranet/oppe/do/Climate%20Change/Climate%20Change%20General%20Content/Forms/AllItems.aspx)

Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) reduces the vehicle miles traveled for population, promotes integrated dense and mixed land-use development, and enables a multi-modal transportation system. TOD creates a destination around transit stations where residents and employees can conveniently walk, bike or take transit. SHA encourages TOD initiatives in the state.

In 2008, Governor O’Malley signed a legislation to create TOD designations in the state. There are now 18 sites designated as TODs. These sites will get priority for funding, tax credits, location of state offices, and SHA’s assistance in access improvements.

MDOT is developing two major new light rail lines, the Red Line in the Baltimore Region, and the Purple Line in the Washington Region. In addition, Montgomery County, in partnership with SHA and MDOT is planning three new Bus Rapid Transit lines on Veirs Mill Road, Georgia Avenue, and the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) along I-270. When complete, these transit systems will provide increased accessibility and mobility for tens of thousands of Maryland residents.

Bicycle and Pedestrian Program
SHA works to ensure that transportation systems are routinely planned, designed, constructed, operated and maintained so as to enable safe and efficient access for all users, striving for a system that is comprehensive, integrated and connected allowing users to choose among different transportation modes both motorized and non-motorized. Many of these goals are supported through Maryland’s Smart Growth legislation and new Sustainability initiatives as well as SHA’s participation in the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Twenty Year Bicycle and Pedestrian Access Master Plan.

 Bicycle and pedestrian priority areas – identifying priority areas for promoting bicycle and pedestrian facilities in partnership with local governments.

 Bicycle library – a GIS database library of bikeway improvements along all state roads that are not prohibited for bicycle use.

 Bicycle and pedestrian programs – ADA retrofit, pedestrian access to transit, sidewalk retrofit, and bicycle retrofit.
For more information on SHA’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Program, please visit the web link Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordination.

Complete Streets
Maryland suburbs continue to become more urbanized. As a result, the right-of-way for transportation improvements is increasingly limited. To address this challenge, SHA has implemented a Complete Streets Policy and a person throughput measure. The Complete Street policy promotes a transportation system that balances all users of the roadway, including pedestrians, transit, bicyclists, and motorists. The person throughput measure will evaluate the level of service based upon the number of people that pass through an intersection as opposed to the number of vehicles. This will favor projects that allow more people than vehicles through an intersection. SHA is in the process of developing implementation guidelines of the Complete Streets Policy. When implemented, SHA expects to increase the efficiency and capacity of the network within the exiting rights-of-way.

High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes (HOV)
High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes are a strategy to maximize person throughput on the highway system. HOV lanes offer a travel time saving for multiple occupant vehicles over single occupant vehicles by restricting access to vehicles that have two or more occupants. The HOV lanes are reserved for carpools, vanpools, buses, and motorcycles during designated time periods. HOV lanes are generally designated via white diamonds on signage and pavement markings. HOV lanes can be separated from other lanes by double white lines, or by aphysical barrier. HOV lanes play an integral part in helping metropolitan areas address the needs they have identified for mobility, safety, environmental stewardship, and quality of life.

The State of Maryland has three HOV facilities:
 I-270, from I-495 to MD 121 (northbound)
 I-270, from MD 117 to I-495 (Southbound)
 US 50, from US 301 to I-95
For additional info, please visit the web link High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes (HOV).

Maryland Statewide Transportation Model
The Maryland Statewide Transportation System Model (MSTM) provides the analytical framework that can facilitate state’s policies and transportation challenges. MSTM is a multi-layer travel demand model working at national, state, and urban levels to forecast and analyze key measures of transportation system performance. MSTM provides comprehensive demand modeling and forecasting capabilities in and around Maryland for:
 Corridor studies
 Freight movement
 Transportation/land use changes
 Impact of external factors and policies
 Long-range plan and project prioritization
 Transportation system performance measurement
 Scenario analysis
 Support for MPOs and local initiatives
 Origin-destination analysis

The model will become more and more integrated in state’s policies while providing technical support to many studies like PlanMaryland, Maryland Transportation Plan, Highway Needs Inventory, Comprehensive Highway Corridor, Transit Oriented Developments, freight plans, etc.

Annual Maryland State Highway Mobility Report
The Maryland State Highway Mobility Report highlights the transportation performance of the state highway system and details the SHA mobility related efforts. Mobility is a key performance area at SHA which aims to “Support Maryland Economy and Communities with Reliable Movement of People and Goods”. This annual report is aimed to identify successes, challenges, and strategies for improving the transportation services in four strategic focus areas: mobility and reliability, incident management and traveler information system, multi-modalism and smart growth and freight. Using private sector speed data, traffic count data and detector data, the state’s most congested roadway segments and bottleneck locations are identified. SHA adopts a data and performance driven approach to develop and implement congestion mitigation solutions in the form of incident management, minor projects and major capital improvements. The report is available at http://www.roads.maryland.gov/OOTS/2012_Maryland_State_HIghway_Mobility_Report.pdf. This is a collaborative effort involving various offices at SHA including Office of Planning and Preliminary Engineering, Office of Coordinated Highways Action Response Team and Intelligent Transportation System Development, Office of Highway Development, Office of Traffic and Safety and the University of Maryland.

Enterprise Geographic Information System (eGIS)
The Enterprise Geographic Information System (eGIS) Portal provides executive, staff and the enterprise community with geospatial capabilities for data analysis and data driven decision support. The Portal fosters collaboration between business units and promotes the use of GIS to support critical business functions. The eGIS tool is accessible via the SHA internal network using a standard web browser (i.e. Internet Explorer). The URL for the eGIS Portal is http://shagbegis1/egis/. The eGIS Portal is also accessible via the SHA intranet homepage at http://shavmspweb/default.aspx. It is located is the list of SHA-wide applications on the left hand side of the home page for easy access.
The eGIS Portal comprises a map window, toolbars at the top and bottom of the application, on screen navigation controls, and collapsible results and widget windows.

Virtual Weigh Stations
The Office of Traffic & Safety, Motor Carrier Division (MCD), has developed a network of electronic commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety monitoring sites known as Virtual Weigh Stations (VWS). While one of the primary functions of these sites is to monitor vehicle weight activity, they are capable of providing an abundance of other safety data such as speed, size and unsafe driving practices. Planned enhancements through the retrofitting of License Plate Reader (LPR) technology will add more monitoring capability in the areas of credentialing (e.g. IFTA fuel tax, IRP registration, etc.), CSA 2010 federal safety ratings and confirmation of hauling permit compliance. Additional monitoring integration with the NCIC stolen vehicle database is also under consideration. Six sites are currently operational and strategically placed on high volume truck routes to create an electronic safety web across the state. While providing law enforcement agencies with real time information on CMV violations, the system also generates data for analysis on operational trends for predictive intervention by law enforcement and raw data on all classes of vehicles (excluding Class 1 – motorcycles) for highway planners and engineers. All data from these sites are transmitted to the University of Maryland RITIS system through which the VWS data is relayed to its users and storage within the RITIS archives.

The intent of establishing a VWS Network was to provide a “blanket” of coverage across the state which would ensure the most efficient and effective means for monitoring CMV safety activity and system preservation efforts. Together with established inspection stations staffed by MSP and MDTA personnel, the blanket almost assures that at some point a commercial vehicle operating in Maryland will be inspected…either manually or electronically.

Maryland’s transportation assets include:
 31,000 miles and 69,000 lane miles** of highways
 800 miles of rail lines
 400 million passengers in transit system per year
 Major marine facilities at the Port of Baltimore
 18 publicly owned airports, including Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
 5000 bridges and tunnels
 900 miles of Maryland Truck Route System

5,266 miles and 15,421 lane miles of the State’s total roadways and 2,578 bridges are owned and maintained by SHA.

86% of the SHA pavement network pavement is in acceptable ride quality condition.

56 billion vehicles miles of travel is made every year in State’s roadway network.

SHA roads carry 37 billion vehicle-miles of travel* a year, and 812 million tons of freight a year.

SHA connects transportation facilities such as bike and walking paths, bus, light rail and subway stations, the Port of Baltimore and the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport;

SHA manages the 24-7 Statewide Operations Center, along with regional traffic operations centers.

SHA Park and Ride Program saves over $60 million in average annual commuting cost, and approximately 107 million in average annual vehicle mile travelled;

*Vehicle-mile of travel (VMT) is the number of miles traveled by all the vehicles on all roads (for example, two vehicles traveling two miles equals four VMT).
**Lane-mile is the term used for the mileage down the center line multiplied by the number of lanes.