Technical Assistance

The Community Planning Technical Assistance Program offers support to communities undertaking small scale transportation and community planning initiatives. The Technical Assistance Program is jointly managed by the Transportation Council and the Capital District Regional Planning Commission (CDRPC).

New project proposals are accepted on a rolling basis and may require a 10% in-kind services match.

2024 Program Guidelines

On-demand services available through the Transportation Council include trail counts, bicycle and pedestrian user counts, crash data analysis, traffic counts, modeled background growth rates, and congested corridor field visits.

Additional, larger scale planning assistance is offered through our Community and Transportation Linkage Planning Program. Learn more.

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Assistance Options

Data Collection

  • Traffic counts
  • Bicycle and pedestrian trail counts
  • Land use planning data
  • Corridor field visits
  • Modeled vehicle growth rates

Safety and Operations Planning

  • Crash data analysis
  • Safety assessments
  • Traffic signal operations analysis
  • Intersection analysis
  • Before and after studies

Data Analysis and Mapping

  • Analysis of demographic, building permit, and other community development trends
  • Data research and visualization
  • GIS mapping
  • StoryMaps

Recreation Trail Planning

  • Guidance on:
    • Recreation plans
    • Management plans
    • Non-motorized trail plans

Comprehensive/Neighborhood Planning

  • Goal setting, plan development and procedural requirements guidance
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Research into a planning issue

General Community Planning

  • Public input and community visioning
  • Meeting facilitation and coordination
  • Surveys and communications activities
  • Training and professional advisement

Zoning and Site Planning

  • Guidance on best practices towards the implementation of planning policies and goals
  • Zoning ordinance audits
  • Development of zoning ordinance amendments
  • Site plan review assistance
  • Planning for development of regional impact

Land Use Plan Implementation

  • Initiate recommended actions in local Comprehensive Plans, Linkage Program Plans or other planning studies such as zoning amendments that guide driveway location and access management, groundwater or open space protection
  • Gather data on vacant properties
  • Re-evaluate Planned Development District (PDD) requirements

Example Completed Projects