Specifications include, but are not limited to: a. Planning – Development of long-range multi-modal transportation plans, strategic plans, data collection and analysis, development, analysis, and evaluation of alternatives/scenarios, resilience planning, coordination with land-use plans and forecasts, and consensus building within a working group of multiple stakeholders; b. Website and Dashboard – Update and improve MPO website to provide data to the public in an informative and accessible manner; gather reliable and timely demographic, socioeconomic, and transportation-related data to assist in regional planning; create a highly interactive dashboard that allows users to analyze trends, build queries to uncover data relationships, and summarize data for reporting; c. CMP – Congestion Management Process / Performance‐Based Planning – Development and use of processes (including the use of Travel Demand Forecasting Models) to estimate the potential performance impact(s) of a transportation improvement; and define regional CMP objectives, network, performance measures, problems, strategies, implementation, and evaluation; d. Data Management – Transportation‐related data collection and management of large databases, development of performance measures based on available data, development of data‐sharing policies and procedures; also includes the use of Travel Demand Forecasting Model (TDFM) and land-use model results for assessing scenario performance measures; e. Conceptual Designs – Development of alternative-projects/strategies, at a conceptual level, for purposes of visualization and planning‐level analysis; f. Revenue Forecasting and Cost Estimations – Estimating both the probable future revenues available to a jurisdiction for transportation improvements as well as estimating the probable costs of a set of potential transportation improvement projects, establish fiscal constraint, and prioritize projects; g. Community Outreach and Public Relations – Facilitation of public participation in planning processes with particular emphasis on consensus building and outreach to Title VI and Environmental Justice communities; includes the ability to develop, administer, and analyze statistically valid public surveys; and leading community engagement to validate developed alternative scenarios, goals and objectives, project prioritization, and draft ORTP; and h. Graphic Design, Layout, and Printing of Plans – Completing plan deliverables by developing and printing planning documents in a graphically pleasing and easy‐to‐ read layout.
