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Date
11-17-2023
Description
This seminar reviews the recently-adopted Oregon Transportation Plan and the process and innovations that underpinned the analysis to identify a preferred set of investments and actions to support the vision and goals of the plan. The plan used innovative methods for communicating how investment strategies may affect regions or example households across the state. Funding is a key influence on how the plan by identifying the affects of inadequate funding and identifying how investment priorities change if funding increases. The Statewide VisionEval strategic travel model was used to conduct an exploratory scenario planning process that informed the relationships between funding, investments, preservation & adaptation, and travel behaviors. The seminar explores the OTP and the respective roles that planning, analysis, and modeling had in the process.
Biographical Information
Adam Argo, AICP is a Principal Planner in the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Transportation Planning Unit. He leads the development, refinement, and implementation of statewide multi-modal transportation plans, policies, and strategies. Adam acted as agency project manager for ODOT’s recently-completed update to the Oregon Transportation Plan. He has 25 years of transportation and land use planning experience in both the public and private sectors, is a certified planner through the American Planning Association, and holds a B.A. in Political Science and Master’s in Urban Planning, both from the University of Kansas.
Jonathan Slason, PE is a Director in RSG’s Planning Applications Practice. He has provided professional engineering and planning consulting services to public and private clients for over fifteen years. He has worked both nationally and internationally on land use policy and planning, design projects, and more recently long range planning, emphasizing climate and equity goals. He leads RSG's strategic modeling practice with a focus on exploratory scenario planning and currently is assisting FHWA and others to enhance the strategic modeling VisionEval platform.
Disciplines
Transportation | Urban Studies | Urban Studies and Planning
Recommended Citation
Argo, Adam and Slason, Jonathan, "Oregon Transportation Plan: Innovations in the Exploratory Scenario Planning Approach" (2023). PSU Transportation Seminars. 250.