Vermont Statutes
Chapter 1 - State Highway Law; General Transportation Provisions
§ 10i. Transportation planning process

§ 10i. Transportation planning process
(a) Long-range systems plan. The Agency shall establish and implement a planning process through the adoption of a long-range multi-modal systems plan integrating all modes of transportation. The long-range multi-modal systems plan shall be based upon Agency transportation policy developed under section 10b of this title; other policies approved by the General Assembly; Agency goals, mission, and objectives; demographic and travel forecasts; design standards; performance criteria; and funding availability. The long-range systems plan shall be developed with participation of the public and local and regional governmental entities and pursuant to the planning goals and processes set forth in 1988 Acts and Resolves No. 200. The plan shall be consistent with the Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP) issued under 30 V.S.A. § 202b.
(b) Corridor studies. The Agency shall develop transportation corridor studies as needed, consistent with asset management policies implemented by the Agency, that identify environmental issues, community concerns, and travel projections. For each corridor, problems shall be identified and ranked according to their criticality and severity.
(c) Transportation Program. The Transportation Program shall be developed in a fiscally responsible manner to accomplish the following objectives:
(1) managing, maintaining, and improving the State’s existing transportation infrastructure to provide capacity, safety, and flexibility in the most cost-effective and efficient manner;
(2) developing an integrated transportation system that provides Vermonters with transportation choices;
(3) strengthening the economy, protecting the quality of the natural environment, and improving Vermonters’ quality of life; and
(4) achieving the recommendations of the CEP.
(d) Project identification and scope. The Agency shall identify and develop specific projects consistent with the objectives set forth in subsection (c) of this section. For each project, a project scope shall be prepared to identify the problem to be resolved by the project, the preferred alternative, project limits, and its conceptual design and estimated costs.
(e) Information manual. An information manual giving a clear description of the planning process shall be prepared for town officials and the public. (Added 1989, No. 246 (Adj. Sess.), § 36; amended 2003, No. 160 (Adj. Sess.), § 31, eff. June 9, 2004; 2017, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 11; 2021, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 350, eff. July 1, 2022.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 19 - Highways

Chapter 1 - State Highway Law; General Transportation Provisions

§ 1. Definitions

§ 2. Composition of Agency

§ 3. Transportation Board; creation; members

§ 4. Transportation Board; meetings; quorum; compensation

§ 5. Transportation Board; powers and duties

§ 5a. Executive Secretary

§ 5b. Conflicts of interest

§ 6. Other boards, commissions, councils, and committees

§ 7. Secretary; powers and duties

§ 7a. Hearing before Secretary

§ 8. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles; appointment; duties and powers

§ 9. Divisions; general provisions

§ 10. Duties

§ 10a. Procurement of engineering and design services through competitive negotiation

§ 10b. Statement of policy; general

§ 10c. Statement of policy; highways and bridges

§ 10d. Statement of policy; airports

§ 10e. Statement of policy; railroads

§ 10f. Statement of policy; public transportation

§ 10g. Annual report; Transportation Program; advancements, cancellations, and delays

§ 10h. Cooperative interstate agreement

§ 10i. Transportation planning process

§ 10j. Intermodal and multimodal transportation facilities; project planning criteria

§ 10k. Statement of policy; asset management; sale of State property

§ 10l. Agency cooperation with regional planning commissions

§ 10m. Statement of policy; sustainable building components; annual report

§ 11. Transportation Fund

§ 11a. Transportation funds appropriated for the Department of Public Safety

§ 11b. Town Highway Revolving Fund

§ 11c. Deposit in escrow account of amounts retained from progress payments

§ 11d. Funds for rehabilitation of historic bridges

§ 11e. Reimbursements

§ 11f. Transportation Infrastructure Bond Fund

§ 12. Appropriations to Agency of Transportation

§ 12a. Transportation Program provided to the Committees on Transportation

§ 12b. Joint Transportation Oversight Committee

§ 13. Central Garage Fund

§ 14. State highways

§ 15. Changes in the State highway system

§ 15a. Border crossings; cooperation with federal government

§ 16. Duties of Secretary in unorganized towns and gores

§ 17. Contracts; labor preference

§ 18. Wages

§ 19. Small business enterprises

§ 20. Small claims for injury or damage

§ 21. Picnic areas and parking places

§ 23. Rights of action; notice

§ 24. Venue and service

§ 25. Settlement and payment

§ 26. Purchase and sale of property

§ 26a. Determination of rent to be charged for leasing or licensing State-owned property under the Agency’s jurisdiction

§ 27. Throughway designation

§ 28. Regulatory signs

§ 29. Intersecting highways

§ 30. Issue of notes for State highway construction

§ 31. Abandonment of project; reconveyance

§ 32. Assumed width of right-of-way

§ 33. Survey of existing highways; damages

§ 34. Appeal from survey

§ 35. Entrance upon lands for survey

§ 37. Impoundments of water created by beaver

§ 38. Transportation Alternatives Grant Program

§ 39. Agency of Transportation assistance with municipal salt sheds

§ 42. Reports preserved; consolidated transportation report

§ 43. State highway closures

§ 44. Statewide Property Parcel Mapping Program