Appendix A: Corridor Plan Checklist
Step 1: Pre-Planning
- Identify and document the following:
- Plan Type
- Location and Extent
- Purpose
- Intended Results
- Partner Agency and Public Engagement
- Schedule and Budget
- Relation to Corridor Planning Prioritization Process
Step 2: Background and Context
- Prepare Engagement Plan
- Conduct other engagement activities (ongoing)
- Review relevant plans, studies, and documents
- Describe context of the corridor
- Describe roadway characteristics
- Document results
Step 3: Existing and Future Conditions
- Conduct engagement activities (ongoing)
- Review existing and future conditions for the following topics:
- Transportation Safety
- System Stewardship: Asset Management
- System Stewardship: Environment
- Climate Action
- Critical Connections: Pedestrian, Bicycle, and Transit
- Critical Connections: Motor Vehicles and Freight
- Critical Connections: Other Topics
- Document results
Step 4: Potential Solutions
- Conduct engagement activities (ongoing)
- Develop suite of potential solutions for the corridor:
- Policy
- Management
- Infrastructure
- Consider the following approaches in solutions development:
- Safe System Approach
- TSMO
- Reducing VMT
- Define no-build option
- Conduct evalution
- Refine solutions as appropriate
- Prepare cost estimates
- Consider GHG emissions reduction requrirement (if applicable)
- Summarize and interpret evalution results
Step 5: Implementation Plan
- Identify implementation actions for each solution
- Secure commitments from MnDOT and agency partners for each solution
- Identify relation to next steps in MnDOT project development process
- Document results