Notice to consultant engineers regarding a request for qualifications and letters of interest.
The Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC), an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer, invites firms to submit qualifications for consulting services to perform a transportation corridor study for the portion of Chapman Highway (US-441/SR- 71) within the City of Knoxville, TN.
Letters of Interest are due to MPC on or before 3:30 p.m. EST on Monday, November 13, 2017.
Smart Growth America and the National Complete Streets Coalition awarded a partnership of agencies in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville as the first-ever winner for their Complete Streets Consortium technical assistance.
The Chattanooga TPO, Knoxville Regional TPO, and Nashville Area MPO together received a set of three free technical assistance workshops. Each of the winning agencies will host one of the three workshops, which will be tailored to each region’s specific opportunities and challenges.
Last month, the first workshop was held in Chattanooga, TN. Read on to find out more.
TDOT has announced a new competitive capital grant program made possible by the IMPROVE Act. TDOT has made available up to $13 million statewide for transit projects. Transit providers that receive Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5307 or 5311 funds are invited to apply for up to $3 million.
Projects should address TDOT’s three top priorities: (1) safety, (2) reduction of congestion, and (3) economic development. A 25% local match is required. In some cases, federal funding can be used for local match. Examples of the types of projects eligible include: transit centers, maintenance facilities, transit stations, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology, passenger amenities, rolling stock, and safety and security equipment. An application is required and strong local and MPO support is highly encouraged.
The application deadline is November 17, 2017 at 5:00 PM Central time. Applications should be submitted to Matthew Long, TDOT Transit Manager, at matthew.long@tn.gov as well as TDOT.MultimodalAdmin@tn.gov. The Application package, including an introduction letter by TDOT Commissioner John Shroer, Fact Sheet, application and instructions, can be found below.
Application Package
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The Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) announces a public review and comment period (September 10, 2017 through September 26, 2017) for amendments to the FY2017 – 2020 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The TPO is soliciting public comments on the Air Quality Conformity Determination made for these amendments. You are invited to comment by phone, email or in-person at 400 Main Street, Suite 403, Knoxville, TN. Additionally, public comments may be made at the TPO Technical Committee meeting on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, or at the TPO Executive Board meeting on Wednesday, September 27, 2017. Both meetings are held at 9 a.m. in the Small Assembly Room of the City-County Building, 400 Main Street, Knoxville, TN. Comments can be made to Mike Conger at 865-215-3813 or at Mike.Conger@knoxplanning.org.
The Air Quality Conformity Determination Report is available here.
The Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) has embarked upon another annual traffic count update for the Knoxville region.
This area encompasses 11 counties: Anderson, Blount, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Roane, Sevier, and Union. The TPO compiles annual traffic counts from Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) and a private contractor. While TDOT records counts from all 11 counties, the private contractor only counts in Blount, Knox, and Loudon counties.
This year there are some notable updates. TDOT added several new traffic count stations, and many are very close to count stations operated by the private contractor. This will free up resources for the contractor to place stations in new and previously discontinued locations. Many of the discontinued locations were abandoned in 2009 when the City of Knoxville decided to terminate its traffic count program.
With this change, TPO came up with a system to display the replaced and discontinued traffic count stations on TPO's traffic count page and KGIS Maps. There are now semi-transparent red X’s to show where the stations once were. Just like the active count stations, you can click on a discontinued station to view a chart of historical traffic count data. Files of all the count stations within the 11 county region are available for download.
Governor Haslam made an announcement at a press conference on August 1 at Sevier Heights Baptist Church that two projects on Alcoa Highway would be expedited. He noted that the IMPROVE Act, which was signed into law in April, will allow the timelines for these projects to be cut in half.
The two projects combined will cost $75 million. One is located in Blount County and the other is in Knox County.
View the map (WBIR)
Blount County project: the half-mile stretch from Hall Road to a new Hunt Road interchange
Knox County project: the 2.5-mile stretch of Alcoa Highway from north of Topside Road to north of Maloney Road
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