85.022 Multimodal transportation studies.
(1) The department shall administer a program to study multimodal transportation. The department may make grants or pay contract costs from the appropriations under s. 20.395 (2) (hq) and (hx) for multimodal transportation studies and preliminary engineering of public transportation projects. The department may provide grants or contract with any person under this section to study interurban and intraurban area multimodal transportation, including an analysis of the potential impact of a transportation facility on local and statewide economic development. A study may consider any of the following:
(a) Present and future transit ridership.
(b) Existing railroad and other transportation right-of-way and potential right-of-way availability.
(c) The capacity of alternative transit facilities.
(d) Parking availability.
(e) Plans for completing transit projects.
(f) The creation of a regional operating authority.
(g) Analysis of alternative means of financing, including public and private cost-sharing.
(h) Coordination of rail passenger services with existing publicly operated mass transit systems.
(i) Technologies, costs, benefits and projected ridership of conventional rail passenger service, or of high-speed rail service.
(j) Express bus service.
(k) Commuter rail service.
(L) Travel data.
(m) Urban rail transit systems.
(2)
(a) The department shall study high-speed rail service in the southern transportation corridor between this state and the state of Minnesota.
(b)
1. Except as provided in subd. 2., funds may be expended under par. (a) only to match funds, at the ratio of 1 to 1, from the state of Minnesota for the study.
2. No funds may be expended under par. (a) unless the federal government contributes funds for a study under par. (a) in an amount equal to the total amount of funds from this state and the state of Minnesota for the study.
(3) A recipient of funding under this section shall make the results of its study available to any interested city, village, town or county.
History: 1989 a. 31; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 16, 246; 1995 a. 113; 2005 a. 25; 2009 a. 28.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 85 - Department of transportation.
85.015 - Transportation assistance contracts.
85.02 - Planning, promotion and protection.
85.0205 - Expenditures for aesthetic elements.
85.021 - Transportation alternatives program.
85.022 - Multimodal transportation studies.
85.023 - Planning for bicycle facilities.
85.025 - Highway and bridge projects.
85.028 - Milwaukee east-west transportation corridor.
85.03 - Federal reduction or termination of aid.
85.035 - Reduction of department appropriations.
85.04 - Acquisition of replacement lands.
85.05 - Evaluation of proposed major highway projects.
85.052 - Change management system for major highway projects.
85.055 - Passenger railroad station improvements.
85.06 - Rail passenger service assistance and promotion.
85.061 - Rail passenger route development.
85.062 - Major transit capital improvement projects.
85.064 - Commuter rail transit system development.
85.065 - Urban rail line relocations.
85.066 - Transit safety oversight program.
85.067 - Midwest interstate passenger rail compact.
85.07 - Highway safety coordination.
85.077 - Railroad projects and competitive bidding.
85.08 - Freight railroad assistance.
85.085 - Private road crossings.
85.09 - Acquisition of abandoned rail property.
85.093 - Intermodal freight assistance.
85.095 - Harbor assistance program.
85.10 - Sale of aerial photographic survey products.
85.103 - Disclosure of personal identifiers.
85.105 - Sale of motor vehicle records.
85.107 - Scholarship and loan repayment incentive grant program.
85.12 - Statewide public safety radio management program.
85.13 - Cost of traffic violation and registration program.
85.14 - Payments by credit card or other electronic payment mechanism; electronic transactions.
85.16 - Department rules and forms.
85.17 - Storage of highway salt.
85.18 - Groundwater protection.
85.19 - Construction site erosion control.
85.193 - Borrow and material disposal sites for transportation projects.
85.195 - Coordination with land conservation committees.
85.20 - Urban mass transit operating assistance program.
85.21 - Specialized transportation assistance program for counties.
85.215 - Tribal elderly transportation grant program.
85.22 - Specialized transportation program.
85.23 - Rural public transportation assistance program.
85.24 - Transportation employment and mobility program.
85.245 - Congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program.
85.25 - Disadvantaged business mobilization assistance program.
85.26 - Intercity bus assistance program.
85.28 - Driver license reinstatement training program.
85.30 - Motorcycle, moped and motor bicycle safety program.
85.31 - Information for tax bills.
85.32 - Statewide trauma care system transfer.
85.35 - Motor carrier projects program.
85.51 - State traffic patrol services.
85.52 - Transportation infrastructure loan program.
85.55 - Safe-ride grant program.
85.605 - Professional football stadium maintenance and operating costs.
85.61 - Compliance with federal Help America Vote Act.
85.62 - Transportation fund balance and appropriation reductions.