Transportation Economic and Land Use System (TELUS)

1. Transportation Economic and Land Use System (TELUS) April 2, 2008Tallahassee, FLDOT

2. Outline • TELUS Overview • TELUS for the PC • TELUS for the Web • TELUS Economic Input-Output Model • e-STIP • Land Use Model (TELUM) • TELUS Implementation • Discussion

3. TELUS Overview

4. What is TELUS? • An MIS/Decision Support system designed to help MPOs and State DOTs meet their legislative mandates under SAFETEA-LU. • Assists MPOs and SDOTs in managing Transportation Improvement Programs (TIP) by tracking projects from planning to implementation, analyzing interrelationships among projects, estimating their economic and land use impacts, and providing a user-friendly graphical user interface and reporting.

5. What is TELUS? (continued) • TELUS development was guided by an MPO user committee since early 2000. • TELUS is developed with funding from the USDOT/FHWA. • TELUS is a SAFETEA-LU congressionally designated project. • TELUS FHWA cooperative agreement will continue through 2011.

6. TELUS: A success for FHWA • TELUS is one of FHWA’s “Priority, Market Ready Technology and Innovation” (T&I) projects. • More information about the T&I program can be found online at: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/crt/lifecycle/ptisafety.cfm

7. TELUS Guiding Objectives • Improve productivity of preparing the TIP at MPOs and State DOTs by providing a seamless, integrated project database. • Ensure timely, efficient dissemination of information to decision makers and stakeholders, as well as enabling public access and participation in developing the TIP. • Provide an easily accessible and user-friendly system through intuitive and customizable modules.

8. How can TELUS benefit Florida? • Who are the beneficiaries? • MPO • FDOT • FHWA Florida Division

9. How can TELUS benefit Florida? • For MPO: • Telus is an application that can be utilized as a data-management, decision-support, and information-sharing tool to input and track TIP projects. Telus provides a user-friendly interface for inputting, viewing, editing, and searching projects as well as producing end-user reports that are easy to understand by presenting data in a logical order and in a clean and professional looking format.

10. How can TELUS benefit Florida? (cont’ed) • For MPO: • As a work application, TELUS allows projects to be edited and tracked as projects move through the planning stages to implementation. Information in TELUS can be shared with constituents outside the MPO by providing a web-based version of TELUS. The web-version goes further than information sharing and dissemination by allowing outside users like local municipalities and citizens to provide comments on projects as well.

11. How can TELUS benefit Florida? (cont’ed) • For MPO’s and FDOT • Web-based TELUS can be linked to FDOT work program data to enable MPO and FDOT data sharing and interaction in an integrated (or uniform) platform and application. • Work program data generated by the District FDOT can be transmitted via TELUS to each MPO with the capability of integrating this data into each MPO’s TIP.

12. How can TELUS benefit Florida? (cont’ed) • For FDOT and FHWA • Telus enables seamless and paperless approvals of STIP amendments.

13. How is TELUS helping you meet the SAFETEA-LU Requirements?

14. SAFETEA-LU Requirements? • TIP/STIP Cycles and Scope: STIPs and metropolitan TIPs must be updated at least every 4 years and must contain at least 4 years of projects and strategies. TELUS is designed to help MPOs and state DOTs develop TIP and STIP respectively in annual cycles with TIP/STIP lengths of 3-5 years.

15. SAFETEA-LU Requirements • Publication of Plans and TIP/STIP: MPOs shall publish or otherwise make available for public review transportation plans and TIPs "including (to the maximum extent practicable) in electronically accessible formats and means, such as the World Wide Web". TELUS allows the TIP to be viewed as an interactive document that can be queried and explored to the fullest extent possible on the World-Wide-Web.

16. SAFETEA-LU Requirements • Relationship with other planning officials: MPOs are encouraged to consult with officials responsible for other planning activities affected by transportation, including planned growth, economic development… The TELUS land use and economic input-output models enable MPO planners and decision makers to evaluate the impacts of proposed transportation projects on regional land use and economic development, leading to a more informed consultative process.

17. SAFETEA-LU Requirements • Visualization Techniques in Plans and Metropolitan TIP Development: MPOs and States shall employ visualization techniques in the development of TIPs/STIPs and Transportation Plans. TELUS GIS allows “interested parties” to view projects on a user friendly interactive map which can be queried in various ways to make information gathering easy. It also allows users to select projects from the project list and then display them on the map.

18. SAFETEA-LU Requirements • Participation Plan: MPOs must develop and utilize a "Participation Plan" that provides reasonable opportunities for interested parties to comment on the content of the metropolitan transportation plan and TIP. Through the web interface and public access to project data via the Internet, TELUS facilitates a transparent TIP development and approval process. It also enables public participation in that “interested parties” can submit comments and suggestions via the website. These comments can then be considered in the project selection process.

19. TELUS System Components/Products

20. TELUS Functional Components • Information Management • Project Information Management • Project Tracking • GIS Interface • Decision Support • Project Scoring (ranks projects vis-a-vis SAFETEA-LU Objectives or MPO criteria) • Planning Analysis (how the TIP meets SAFETEA-LU Objectives) • Project Interrelationships • Input/Output Model • Land Use Model

21. Current Status • TELUS for the PC has over 300 registered user agencies, including 231 MPOs, 33 state DOTs and 50 Other Local/Regional Governments. • TELUS for the Web is currently deployed at Alabama State DOT (including all 13 Alabama MPOs) and 4 MPOs (Houston-Galveston Area Council, TX; Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission, OH; New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, NY; Broward County MPO, FL [operational, but not in use]). TELUS is currently being deployed at the New Jersey DOT. • TELUMwas released in January 2006. It was implemented at the Pikes Peak Area COG, (Colorado Springs, CO). Also used by Des Moines, IA, and Little Rock, AR, MPOs. Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (Missoula, MT) and Pueblo Area COG (Pueblo, CO) are currently testing TELUM.

22. Current Status (continued) • TELUS website is active and has a download section where users can get the latest software installation packages and updates, I/O model data, and information about TELUS. • Economic Input/Output (I/O) Modeldatasets are developed and available for download from TELUS website for 338 MPOs nationwide. • E-STIP application is operational at the FHWA and FTA Region 2. NJIT plans to develop an E-STIP module which will become integral component of the TELUS for the Web application at New Jersey DOT. • TELUS staff provides technical support to users (installation, system customization, system updates, and using TELUS for the PC, TELUS for the Web, and TELUM).

23. TELUS for the PC

24. Highlights TELUS for the PC v 4.0 released in January 2006. • New User Interface – professionally designed appearance; improved navigation and more intuitive workflow; • Improved GIS – greater flexibility in geographic project selection and display • Long Range Plans - Includes Long Range Planning horizon • Funding Allocation - A new feature, allows users to verify how well they are allocating the available funds among the projects • Import Customizations - imports all customizations from version 3.0 • Project Picture - A new feature, Project Picture allows the user to upload a project picture, a video, or a drawing for each project. • New Economic Factors - impacts for business revenues (cash register receipts), profit/other and indirect business taxes. • I/O Model Reports - users can generate pre-formatted I/O reports.

25. Data Entry: Quick and Accurate

26. Data Entry: User Customization

27. Select Projects

28. Project Reports

29. Project Tracking

30. Bringing Life to the TIP • GIS Reader • View/Print Maps of Projects • Select Projects for Analysis • Embedded Pictures of Projects

31. Visualizing Projects – TELUS GIS

32. TELUS Project Analysis – Scoring

33. Planning Analysis

34. Project Interrelationships

35. Demonstration of TELUS for the PC

36. TELUS for the Web

37. What is TELUS for the Web? • TELUS for the Web is an Internet-based version of the software • Integrates spatially distributed agencies (and their data) using the Internet • Facilitates web-enabled Electronic Data Delivery (paperless) • TIP/STIP approval process via e-STIP (proposed/optional) • Enables Collaboration and Active Public Participation

38. Features of TELUS for the Web Easy implementation: • Highly Customizable • Uses existing (often legacy) agency databases and hardware • Reaches in (think of an octopus tentacles) and retrieves the data that is needed • Creates the data warehouse layer • Maintains integrity of data

39. Web Minimizes Costs to All Agencies Single installation • Easy maintenance • Easy to update Deployment Scenarios • State as Host, Districts and MPOs as Clients • MPO as Host, Localities as Clients • Combination of the above scenarios

40. TELUS for the Web - Project Information

41. GIS module TELUS for the Web

42. Customized TIP Reports

43. Public Participation Opportunities • Viewer level of security offered (no data editing privileges) • MPO/SDOT could provide a public workstation • Website is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection and Web browser • Quick production of project reports • Includes a module that allows the public to comment about projects. • Contact person/phone # provided

44. Public Participation Opportunities

45. Demonstration of TELUS for the Web

46. TELUS Economic Input –Output (I-O) Model

47. TELUS Economic I-O Model • Gives a measure of the economic impact from undertaking a transportation project on the MPO, region, and the whole state. • In general, the I-O models identify flows of goods and services between sectors of an economy. • Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, Mineral Industries, Construction Industries, Manufacturing, Transportation, Communications, and Utilities, Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade, Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, Service Industries, Public Administration • They measure the “ripple” effect of introducing investments across the segments. • Developed for each MPO and the state in which it is located. • The model estimates jobs, earnings, gross product, taxes, indirect business taxes, business revenue and profit/other. • NJIT developed I-O Models for majority of Florida MPOs until year 2012.

48. TELUS Economic Model

49. e -STIP Application

50. e-STIP Objectives • Integrate e-STIP architecture into the TELUS framework • Single Point of Data Entry for Multiple Agencies • Computerize the entire TIP & STIP creation and amendment process • Improve project and information management by providing an integrated and seamless database