Montana Transportation Choices

Montana Transportation Choices: Transportation Choices to Enhance Community Character, Public Safety, Economic Vitality, and Natural Landscapes in Montana is a summary report that presents an overview of the conclusions and recommendations resulting from the Montana Transportation Choices Study. Details of the study findings have been published in a set of issue papers addressing issues and topics identified by stakeholders from across Montana during 2002.

http://www.smartgrowth.org/library/articles.asp?art=1073&res=1280

With a gross density of 6.2 people per square mile (compared to 80.5 nationally), Montana is a state with compact cities and towns (where most of its people live), and vast areas of open lands. Transportation choices made by Montanans over the next decade could have a profound effect on the future of the state’s cities and towns, and on its landscape.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate Montana’s state transportation program in light of current guidelines, goals, and requirements contained in federal transportation laws, and to compare Montana’s transportation program to best practices among the states in key policy areas of importance to Montana’s citizens.

This Summary is organized around five subjects, reflecting the most important of the issues identified by stakeholders:

1. Highway Capacity Investments, Access Management, Land Development Patterns, and Induced Travel

2. Transportation Program Funding and Prioritization

3. Highways, Wildlife Corridors, and Wildlife Habitat

4. Context Sensitive Highway Design

5. Community Planning, Citizen Empowerment

44 pages; available online as a PDF document at the resource link below.

Resource: http://www.mtsmartgrowth.org/transportation_study/FinalMTTransportChoices.pdf

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