Planning

Accessible & Connected

Transportation & Mobility

FY2024 Budget

Program Budget Overview

Description

  • Transportation & Mobility Planning includes the planning, programming, and policy work of the department by encouraging Boulder to design and use the multimodal system, including transit and the operation of the transportation demand management system. This group also oversees the city’s progress toward meeting the goals of the 2019 Transportation Master Plan.
  • Primary focus for 2024 includes continuing planning, design, and community engagement work on the Core Arterial Network (CAN), regional transportation corridor planning, implementation of the city’s curbside management policy and internal guidebook, expansion and monitoring of the city’s shared micromobility program, citywide wayfinding and education and courtesy campaigns for multi-use paths, and ongoing multimodal planning and support of Transportation Operations and Capital Projects efforts.

Summary of 2024 Budget Enhancements/Realignments:

  • This program budget includes 1 new FTE (Transportation Planner) to support a wide range of departmental project needs and community engagement activities. ($102,000). This position is shared with the CIP Management Program.

Sustainability, Equity and Resilience (SER) Goals & Objectives: Accessible & Connected

  • Objectives
    • Offers and encourages a variety of safe, comfortable, affordable, reliable, convenient, and clean mobility options.
    • Supports a balanced transportation system that reflects effective land use, manages congestion, and facilitates strong regional multimodal connections.

Program Outcomes

  • Production of and reporting on longitudinal metrics reports such as the Boulder Valley Employee Survey, Resident Travel Diaries, Boulder Valley Modal Shift Report, and Greenhouse Gas Inventory report that educate city staff, elected officials, and the public on how effective city endeavors are at achieving climate and transportation goals.
  • Development and implementation of plans, policies, and programs that increase safety and connectivity along our multimodal street network.
  • Reliable, safe transit service that connects people to everyday destinations, work, education, services and other opportunities.
  • Shared microbility service that safely and conveniently connects people to major destinations.
  • Improved infrastructure to support Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD).
  • Community engagement activities and methods that honor the role of the public in shaping our transportation infrastructure in a way that does not cause undue burdens or harm to underserved communities and neighborhoods.
  • Effective response to Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activations that provide emergency transportation to the city’s and county’s most vulnerable populations in times of need.

Measurements

  • Progress on emission reductions.
  • # of fatal and serious injury crashes.
  • Share of residents living in walkable neighborhoods.
  • Participation in community engagement activities.
  • Annual paratransit trips.
  • Annual service hours provided.
  • HOP passengers/service hour.
  • Fleet bus electrification.

Advance (Long-Range) and Regional Planning

The program includes regional multi-modal corridor planning, pursuit of grant funding for capital projects and transit programs; CDOT, RTD, DRCOG coordination; the TMP Update, participation in the Northwest Area Mayors & Commissioners Coalition, CO119 and CO7 Coalitions; and long-range land use transportation planning.





Performance measures utilized include the measuring of total vehicle miles of travel (VMT). Subprogram objectives include the reduction of VMT by 20% by 2030.

Bicycle/Pedestrian Planning

This program works to implement the Transportation Master Plan, and specifically, the Low Stress Walk and Bike Network Plan and Vision Zero Action Plans. The program provides the funding for staff to lead these efforts as well as the resources to contract with community organizations to provide walk and bike encouragement programming for the Boulder community.



Performance measures utilized include number of traffic fatalities on the city's road network. This is tracked by analyzing police crash reports.

Transit Planning

The city's transit program oversees and manages service agreements and funding requirements for the provision of enhanced transit services in the community. Contracted services include the HOP fixed route bus service, specialized senior and paratransit services, and FLEX regional service between Fort Collins and Boulder. The program also coordinates the cleaning, maintenance, and repair of community bus stops. The program manages the grant and procurement activities for the continued electrification of the HOP bus fleet.

Transportation Demand Management (TDM)

The TDM program uses a variety of polices, strategies and programs to meet TMP goals including funding employer outreach through Boulder Transportation Connections, subsidizing transit and vanpool programs, and tracking performance through our metrics program. The most effective TDM programs in the City of Boulder are the suite of EcoPass programs for employees, residents and university students. The city provides rebates to new employers joining the Business EcoPass Program as well as ongoing subsidies to residents participating in the Neighborhood EcoPass. EcoPass holders are six-times more likely to use transit and they also make more walking and biking trips than residents or employees without access to the EcoPass.