1. Regional Transportation
Update
Leadership Seminole
March 2, 2012

2. Purpose of presentation
• Transportation planning process
• Regional Long Range Transportation Plan
• Three transformational projects
• Vision, determination…and change!

3. MetroPlan Orlando
• Regional transportation
planning/funding Honorable Brandon Arrington
Board Chairman
• Seminole, Orange and Osceola
Counties
• But…it’s more than transportation

4. Transportation is economic development

5. Transportation is economic development

6. Transportation is economic development

7. Cars Concrete Blacktop

8. Cars Concrete Blacktop
Good

9. People
Goods Information

10. Key principles
• Demographics affect everything
• Energy will shape our future
• Our future investments must support your
targeted industries
• Place-making matters

11. Year 2030 Long Range
Transportation Plan
“Begin with the end in mind.”
-Stephen Covey

13. Are we planning for
people…or for cars?

14. • …
City of
Orlando, Transportation
Department

15. • …
City of
Orlando, Transportation
Department

16. • …
City of
Orlando, Transportation
Department

17. 2030 Long Range
Transportation Plan
Including:
Future Transportation
Financing
Alternative Land Use Approach

18. Transportation funding
• Federal taxes
• State taxes
• Local taxes
• User fees

19. Cost to use non-tolled roads
Vehicle miles traveled 10, 000
Miles per gallon 20
Gallons of gas consumed 500
Total tax per gallon of gas 42 cents
Tax per year $210
Cost per day 58 cents

20. Three Transformational
Projects
• SunRail
• Wekiva Parkway
• I-4 Master Plan

21. Passenger Rail

23. Wekiva
Parkway
SR 417
SR 429

24. Wekiva Parkway

25. FUTURE I-4 THROUGH DOWNTOWN ORLANDO

26. FUTURE I-4 IMPROVEMENTS
Special Use Lanes
Rail
Interchange
Improvements

27. The importance of
• Vision
• Determination
• …and guts!