Long Range Planning

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Commitment 2045

The Commitment 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) is the result of a two-year collaboration of the MPO, its partners and public input. The Plan lays out a multimodal transportation system from 2020 through 2045 and is a Core Product of the Broward MPO. 

The 2045 MTP identified six planning factors to guide the overall MTP development process: Mobility, Accessibility, Safety, Equity, Economic Vitality, and Environmental Stewardship. Resiliency is a key consideration in the MTP’s goals and objectives, needs assessment, and performance monitoring elements.

The 2045 MTP drew from regional partner studies including the Regional Climate Action Plan, the 2015 Compact Unified Sea Level Rise Projection, and the South Florida Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Pilot Project to identify eight (8) resiliency studies. The 2045 MTP also included a resiliency scenario to test potential future outcomes based on the impact of climate stressors on the region’s roadway network and to help identify projects for inclusion in the MTP's cost feasible plan.

The Broward MPO worked closely with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), District 4 and drew from the South Florida Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Pilot Project to select and prioritize roadway segments based on their vulnerability to sea-level rise, storm surge, and/or 100-year storm events within the 2045 planning horizon. Based on coordination with FDOT, the team agreed to include these roadway segments as resiliency studies in the cost feasible plan to identify the most appropriate long-term solution for these facilities in conjunction with the MPO’s planning partners.

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The 2045 MTP incorporated resiliency in the following sections of the document (refer to page numbers):

Goals & Objectives (Goal #3 - Strengthen Communities)

• Objective: Promote Resiliency in Response to Climate Change and Weather-Related Events
• Reference: Page 1-3

Emerging Issues (Resiliency)

• Describes the current state of the transportation system in the context of resiliency and recent analyses including the South Florida Climate Change and Vulnerability Adaptation Project which identified discrete roadway segments that would be impacted by 1, 2, and 3 ft. of sea-level rise. The top eight roadway segments impacted by 2 ft. of sea-level rise (projected by 2045 planning horizon) were included as cost feasible resiliency studies in the final MTP project list (see below)
• Reference: Page 3-13

Scenario Planning (Resiliency Scenario)

• Scenario planning was used as part of the MTP development to test different future outcomes based on a shift in policy or the impact of stressors. The resiliency scenario used the roadway inundation data (impacted by 2 ft. of sea-level rise) from the South Florida Climate Change and Vulnerability Adaptation Project and assumed any projects on inundated facilities would be removed from the network to test their potential impact on the system.
• Reference: Page 4-5

Project Prioritization (Environmental Stewardship)

• Environmental Stewardship was one of six planning factors established to rank and prioritize projects and included the following specific criteria:
  • Improvements related to sea-level rise mitigation/extreme weather resiliency
  • The Broward MPO Board (along with the Technical and Citizens’ Advisory Committees) participated directly in a poll to establish weights for the six planning factors. Environmental stewardship was weighted 12.8% based on the average of the feedback we received from the MPO Board and Committees
  • Draft Technical Report #4 (Project Prioritization Process) also provides more information on the scoring and project scoring process (see page 16 for specific scoring criteria on sea-level rise mitigation/extreme weather resiliency)
• Reference: Page 4-15

Cost Feasible Plan (8 Resiliency Study Projects)

• Based on the information from the South Florida Climate Change and Vulnerability Adaptation Project and the Resiliency Scenario, the top 8 roadway segments impacted by 2 ft. of sea-level rise (projected by 2045 planning horizon) were included as cost feasible resiliency studies in the final MTP project list.
  • Ref. ID #17: Hollywood Blvd. (from US-1 to SR-A1A)
  • Ref. ID # 18: SR-A1A (from South of Arizona Street to Hallandale Beach Blvd.)
  • Ref. ID #19: US-1(from Las Olas Blvd. to Davie Blvd.)
  • Ref. ID # 20: US-1 (from Broward Blvd. to Las Olas Blvd.)
  • Ref. ID #21: Las Olas Blvd. (from US-1 to SR-A1A)
  • Ref. ID #22: Johnson St. (from US-1 to N 14th Ave.)
  • Ref. ID #23: US-1 (from Pembroke Rd. to Hallandale Beach Blvd.)
  • Ref. ID #24: Hallandale Beach Blvd. (from US-1 to SR-A1A)
• These projects are programmed in the first five-year time band (2026/30) of the plan to identify the appropriate infrastructure project to program in future MTPs based on the outcome of the area-wide study. These studies will focus on the type and extent of the inundation the facility is expected to experience and how this will impact the surrounding roadway network. This will help develop a more comprehensive capital outlay of projects to properly address the potential risk
• Reference: Pages 5-13 – 5-14

Regional Performance Measures (Transportation System Vulnerability & Resiliency)

• Performance Measure and Target: Miles of Public Roads and Rail Forecasted to be Permanently Inundated between 1 ft. and 2 ft. of sea-level rise, Decrease by 2045
• Reference: Page 6-12