[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR450.208]

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                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 450--PLANNING ASSISTANCE AND STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart B--Statewide Transportation Planning
 
Sec. 450.208  Statewide transportation planning process: Factors.

    (a) Each State shall, at a minimum, explicitly consider, analyze as 
appropriate and reflect in planning process products the following 
factors in conducting its continuing statewide transportation planning 
process:
    (1) The transportation needs (strategies and other results) 
identified through the management systems required by 23 U.S.C. 303;
    (2) Any Federal, State, or local energy use goals, objectives, 
programs, or requirements;
    (3) Strategies for incorporating bicycle transportation facilities 
and pedestrian walkways in appropriate projects throughout the State;
    (4) International border crossings and access to ports, airports, 
intermodal transportation facilities, major freight distribution routes, 
national parks, recreation and scenic areas, monuments and historic 
sites, and military installations;
    (5) The transportation needs of nonmetropolitan areas (areas outside 
of MPO planning boundaries) through a process that includes consultation 
with local elected officials with jurisdiction over transportation;
    (6) Any metropolitan area plan developed pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 134 
and section 8 of the Federal Transit Act, 49 U.S.C. app. 1607;
    (7) Connectivity between metropolitan planning areas within the 
State and with metropolitan planning areas in other States;
    (8) Recreational travel and tourism;
    (9) Any State plan developed pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. (and in addition to plans pursuant 
to the Coastal Zone Management Act);
    (10) Transportation system management and investment strategies 
designed to make the most efficient use of existing transportation 
facilities (including consideration of all transportation modes);
    (11) The overall social, economic, energy, and environmental effects 
of transportation decisions (including housing and community development 
effects and effects on the human, natural and manmade environments);

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    (12) Methods to reduce traffic congestion and to prevent traffic 
congestion from developing in areas where it does not yet occur, 
including methods which reduce motor vehicle travel, particularly 
single-occupant motor vehicle travel;
    (13) Methods to expand and enhance appropriate transit services and 
to increase the use of such services (including commuter rail);
    (14) The effect of transportation decisions on land use and land 
development, including the need for consistency between transportation 
decisionmaking and the provisions of all applicable short-range and 
long-range land use and development plans (analyses should include 
projections of economic, demographic, environmental protection, growth 
management and land use activities consistent with development goals and 
transportation demand projections);
    (15) Strategies for identifying and implementing transportation 
enhancements where appropriate throughout the State;
    (16) The use of innovative mechanisms for financing projects, 
including value capture pricing, tolls, and congestion pricing;
    (17) Preservation of rights-of-way for construction of future 
transportation projects, including identification of unused rights-of-
way which may be needed for future transportation corridors, 
identification of those corridors for which action is most needed to 
prevent destruction or loss (including strategies for preventing loss of 
rights-of-way);
    (18) Long-range needs of the State transportation system for 
movement of persons and goods;
    (19) Methods to enhance the efficient movement of commercial motor 
vehicles;
    (20) The use of life-cycle costs in the design and engineering of 
bridges, tunnels, or pavements;
    (21) The coordination of transportation plans and programs developed 
for metropolitan planning areas of the State under 23 U.S.C. 134 and 
section 8 of the Federal Transit Act with the statewide transportation 
plans and programs developed under this subpart, and the reconciliation 
of such plans and programs as necessary to ensure connectivity within 
transportation systems;
    (22) Investment strategies to improve adjoining State and local 
roads that support rural economic growth and tourism development, 
Federal agency renewable resources management, and multipurpose land 
management practices, including recreation development; and
    (23) The concerns of Indian tribal governments having jurisdiction 
over lands within the boundaries of the State.
    (b) The degree of consideration and analysis of the factors should 
be based on the scale and complexity of many issues, including 
transportation problems, land use, employment, economic development, 
environmental and housing and community development objectives, the 
extent of overlap between factors and other circumstances statewide or 
in subareas within the State.