Andrew B. McCaul Senior Transportation Planner GeoDOT Overview – Supporting Municipal Needs New tools for supporting ongoing planning activities; LTA support, safety, speed, or heavy vehicle analysis at specific location, project development, etc… Andrew B. McCaul Senior Transportation Planner

Municipalities with lower populations (below 8,000) typically do not have the resources to develop projects, update road classifications, collect data, or perform analysis

How do we Provide Data to our Municipal Partners? Provides municipal access to data ranging from VMT to demographics, education and many more data sets. Community Profile provides a summary, Regional Data Portal in-depth data

2018 MOVING TOGETHER CONFERENCE Prior to GeoDOT municipality would contact us, we would contact MassDOT if we did not have data, now data is available instantaneously. Planning tools used to assistant municipalities with performing analysis on roadways and applying for grants, federal funding, and other sources of funding

GeoDOT Sample Data Viewer

MaPIT as a Pre-screening Tool Municipality can select area of interest Run Geoprocessing in order to identify potential issues Determine next step Advance through project development process Identify low cost improvements based on analysis MaPIT as a Pre-screening Tool

Closing Thoughts Streamlines early planning activities Provides data in visual format with option to export Preliminary analysis – What is the next step? Does not replace the need to follow standard planning /engineering practices Continue to improve as more data is added RPA data sets

Thank you Andrew B. McCaul Senior Transportation Planner amccaul@pvpc.org Thank you