JOIN US OCTOBER 26 -30, 2020 IN MINNEAPOLIS for the AMPO Annual Conference
CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS OPEN!
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PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Although AMPO has identified the topics below as a means to structure the agenda for the 2020 Conference, we will also accept proposals on topics/issue areas that are not mentioned below. Organizations may submit a maximum of three abstracts.
Accessibility
- Access to employment, services, and facilities
- Measuring accessibility and quantifying social costs of inaccessibility
Complete Streets
- Best practices and case studies for all modes, including bicycling, walking, and transit
- American’s with Disabilities Act
- Working collaboratively
Coordination and Collaboration with Key Partners
- Coordination with the State DOT
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Certification
Environmental Justice/Limited English Proficiency Plans (LEP)/Title VI
- Incorporating both qualitative and quantitative measures of equity into long range planning
- EJ analysis used in project prioritization
- Demographics research and analysis
- Outreach
FAST Act and MAP 21 Implementation
Freight
- Addressing first / last mile bottlenecks
- Collecting and applying freight data
- Developing regional freight studies
- Movement of freight through or around sensitive areas
Funding and Financing
- Creative funding options
- The Federal infrastructure bill or the Highway Trust Fund
Congestion Pricing
- Ballot initiatives and referenda
- Grants
- Public Private Partnerships (P3s)
- Sales taxes
- User taxes
Future of Transportation Mobility
- Best practices or case studies depicting the impact of disruptive technologies on transportation and land use planning
- How to engage policy makers in preparing for the impacts of technology
- How to plan for a rapidly changing world
- Impacts of transformative vehicle technology
- Travel behavior trends
GIS
- Best practices
- Data acquisition and management
- Data partnerships
- Implementation
- New technologies, services, and application development
Interregional Compacts, Cooperation, and Plans
- Development of interregional corridors
- Megaregion issues
Land Use / Transportation Connection
- Addressing property rights issues
- Improving coordination between land use and transportation
- Sustainable development
- Tools
MPO Operations
- Board member education and orientation
- Continuation of operations plans (COOPs)
- Managing consultant contract
- RFPs / RFQs
- Selection criteria
- Small MPOs – Meeting the challenges of small staffs, small budgets, big needs
- MPO staff management – hiring, performance reviews, policy and procedures, staff development, and staff benefits
- Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) development and best practices
MPO Roles & Relevancy
- Becoming an operator
- Engaging elected officials in the planning process
- Innovation in planning process
- MPO strategic management
- Niche only MPOs fulfill
- Using data to guide planning
Performance Based Planning and Programming
- Best practices and examples of implementation
- Coordination with the State DOT
Performance Measures
- Coordination with states, transit, and other partners
- Data
- Measuring, reporting, and evaluating
- Multimodal measures
- PM1: Safety
- PM2: Pavement and Bridge Condition
- PM3: System Performance, Freight, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ)
Planning Requirements
- Day to day
- Developing financial planning estimates
- Developing the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
- Planning Emphasis Areas (PEAs)
- State and federal certifications
- Updating the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)/ Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP)
Public Involvement
- Adopting and implementing the Public Participation Plan (PPP)
- Challenges, successes, and lessons learned
- Communicating performance to citizens and elected officials
- Engaging a broader demographic
- How agencies are communicating funding issues/gaps, funding options, and how they are getting feedback from the public on what they are willing to pay?
- Innovative methods
- Using social media
Professional Development
Scenario Planning
- Best practices
- How are MPOs using scenario planning in the metropolitan transportation plan or Transportation Improvement Program?
- How to involve agency stakeholders & general public in scenario planning
Technology
- Connected and autonomous vehicles
- Emerging technologies
- ITS
- Supporting communications
- Transportation incident management
- Transportation management and operations
- Transportation Network Companies
- Traveler information strategies
Transportation and Health
- Health impact assessment of MTPs/LRTPs
- Planning and environmental linkage studies
- Project evaluation
- Supporting public health and “active” modes
Transportation System Resiliency and Planning for All-Hazard Events
- Factoring resiliency into funding decisions
- Resiliency assessment/evaluation
- Resiliency planning—best practices and resources