Other Regional Plans
The Transportation Council regularly sponsors plans, studies, and guides that apply to the whole region, or to multiple cities, towns, villages, and/or counties. These planning activities cover a broad range of topics, reflecting the needs of the Capital Region’s communities.
Safety
The Transportation Council will be building on the Local Road Safety Action Plan (2019) in the coming year, resulting in the Vision Zero Action Plan. The plan will focus on a reduction of fatal and serious injury crashes to an eventual goal of zero, and include all public roadways, additional public input focused on underserved communities, systemic safety analysis, area speed limit recommendations, and a prioritized listing of actionable projects.
Complete Streets, Active Transportation, and Transit
The Transportation Council created the Complete Streets Design Guide (2023) guide as a supplement to the New York State Highway Manual to fill in the gaps where the context of local streets differs from that of state highways.
The Capital District Trails Plan (2019) is a plan to develop a seamless regional transportation network that connects cities, towns and villages throughout the Capital District.
The Capital Region Bus Lane Feasibility Study (2023) sought to identify bus lane candidate locations, a public education and participation program, a visual display of bus lane street layouts, an assessment of bus priority treatment options, and development of bus and bike priority concepts.
Freight and Goods Movement
The Regional Freight and Goods Movement Plan (2016, Executive Summary) looked to better understand the role and profile of freight transportation throughout the region and contribute to making appropriate investments to support the efficiency and safety of goods movement.
The Regional Truck Parking Study (2024) inventoried public and private truck parking supply and demand in the region, identified the underlying conditions impacting truck parking, and made recommendations to strategically expand parking, address staging needs, address emergency parking, encourage idling reduction, and provide information systems.
Technology and Resilience
The Capital District Zero Emission Vehicle Plan (2020) assesses the Capital Region’s support for ZEVs and provides recommendations to create a more comprehensive Electric Vehicle (EV) charging network that supports ZEV drivers, addresses barriers to ZEV adoption in the Capital District, and includes specific recommendations for corridors to be designated as Alternative Fuel Corridors under the FHWA’s Alternative Fuels Clean Corridors program.
Smart Mobility Toolbox: Smart Community Solutions for the Capital Region (2022) a guide for implementing Smart Community projects in the Capital Region. These are projects that incorporate information and communication technologies to enhance the quality and performance of urban services such as energy, transportation and utilities in order to reduce resource consumption, wastage and overall costs.
Municipal Smart City Street Light Conversion & Evolving Technology Guidebook (2020) a guide to assist municipalities in strategizing “smart” lighting needs and identifying the appropriate “smart” street light infrastructure and technology, features, and functionality for each community beyond LED light conversions.
Infrastructure
The I-787/Hudson Waterfront Corridor Study (2018, Appendices) aimed to identify potential future transportation strategies for the Interstate 787 corridor that support and balance economic development and revitalization efforts, transportation network resilience, and improved walking, biking, transit, and visual access to the waterfront.
The Identification of Bridge Preservation Candidates, Treatments, and Costs for Locally owned Capital District Bridges (2021) study looked to identify bridges in the region that could benefit from timely preservation strategies.
Operations
The I-87/ US 9 Integrated Corridor Management Plan (2015) sought to improve overall operations of I-87 and US 9 (parallel arterial) by better handling recurring and non-recurring delays (including incident management) within the corridor between Exits 2 and 15.
The Saratoga County Regional Traffic Study (2016, Executive Summary) aimed to address mobility concerns in central Saratoga County, New York, focused around the Adirondack Northway (I-87) Exits 11 and 12 associated with population growth and increased development.