Bonus Episode: 12 Things that Make the Chattanooga MPO 2050 RTP Special

Episode Summary:  Listen to national experts and certified planners, Keli Kemp and Kirsten Mote, both with Modern Mobility Partners interview guest speakers Melissa Taylor and Julia Billings about the innovative strategies used in the Chattanooga MPO’s 2050 Regional Transportation Plan. Listeners will learn about the following topics in this Season 4 Bonus Episode:

• Identifying innovative strategies for public and stakeholder engagement
• Incorporating safety, equity, and resilience throughout the long-range planning process
• Conducting social equity analysis for use in the plan
• Identifying electric vehicle opportunity areas and incorporating them into the plan
• Identifying smart corridors and incorporating them into the plan
• Identifying freight clusters and incorporating them into the plan
• Conducting Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) and early NEPA analyses
• Assessing different alternatives or scenarios for different packages of projects
• Developing innovative approaches to project selection and prioritization, focusing on plan goals
• Identifying funding set-asides aligned with key themes
• Including actionable policy recommendations with clear steps for implementation
• Developing a digital plan document that is reader friendly, highly visual, and includes links to supplemental resources and story maps throughout

Links:

• Chattanooga-Hamilton County/North Georgia MPO 2050 Regional Transportation Plan document: https://www.chcrpa.org/project/2050-rtp/
• Chattanooga-Hamilton County/North Georgia MPO 2050 Regional Transportation Plan website: https://2050rtp-chcrpa.hub.arcgis.com/
• Story maps: https://2050rtp-chcrpa.hub.arcgis.com/pages/Map%20stories

Co-Hosts:

• Keli Kemp, AICP, PTP has 25 years of experience in transportation planning and consulting and co-founded Modern Mobility Partners in early 2018 with Jennifer Zhan. Keli holds a M.S. degree in Urban Planning from Texas A&M University.
• Kirsten Mote, AICP has over 14 years of experience in transportation planning and is certified by MIT Media Lab’s Beyond Smart Cities program. Kirsten is an Associate Vice President and Director of Smart Mobility Planning with Modern Mobility Partners. Kirsten holds a M.S. degree in City Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Guest Speakers:

• Melissa Taylor is the Director of Transportation Planning and MPO Coordinator for Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency (RPA) & Chattanooga-Hamilton County/North Georgia MPO where she oversees transportation planning for the City of Chattanooga, Hamilton County, and the 19 jurisdictions of the MPO. She was the Project Manager on the agency or client side for the 2050 RTP.
• Julia Billings, AICP has over 12 years of experience in transportation and land use planning. She was Deputy Project Manager on behalf of MMP (the lead consultant) for the 2050 RTP, leading the day-to-day of the entire plan on the consultant side.

Modern Mobility Partners is an Atlanta-based women and minority-owned transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm.  Service areas include smart mobility and transportation planning, demand modeling and traffic engineering, and data analytics and visualization.

If you are interested in learning more about Modern Mobility Partners, please visit www.modernmobilitypartners.com. 

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