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Volume 1, July 2019 Mississippi Edition
Mississippi Transportation Planning Update
Thanks for participating in our statewide long-range transportation plan update activities.
As a transportation stakeholder, we greatly value the insights you provided. When asked recently about key trends impacting transportation, you responded loud and clear.
Your insight helps us make important transportation decisions as we update Mississippi’s Unified Long-Range Transportation Infrastructure Plan(MULTIPLAN).
Over the next 5 years, Mississippi’s economy will grow about the same as it has over the last 5 years.
Urbanization will have the largest impact on transportation demand.
Urban areas will grow faster over the next 10 years than the rest of the state.
The technology with the greatest impact on Mississippi’s transportation over the next 20 years, will be the Internet.
Over the next 20 years, the technological impact to transportation demand will grow faster than it has over the past 5 years.
The business and consumer practice that will have the greatest impact on transportation demand in the next 10 years will be e-commerce.
Over the next 20 years, changes in consumer practices that impact transportation demand will grow faster than in the past 5 years.
The majority of you who participated in our opinion poll believe that :
Stay involved! Watch for quarterly newsbytes such as this one and ways you can participate in transportation planning. Questions? Contact us at [email protected].
mstransportationplan2045.com
MISSISSIPPI:WE HEAR YOU!
The Big Picture The Long-Range Transportation Planning Process
1 Define our current transportation needs.
2 Explain long-range transportation planning, why it is important and how people can participate in planning for the future.
45 Develop goals and performance standards for our state.
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11 Develop the final plan, which can be updated or amended if new information is discovered.
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Invite the public to review and make comments about the draft plan.
Develop a financial plan.
Put together a draft long-range transportation plan that includes short-range programs.
YOU ARE HERE!
With input from the public, begin to plan how and where limited transportation funding should be spent.
Identify ways for improving transportation.
Estimate the impact the draft plan might have on the environment.
Develop growth forecasts.
Invite the public to review and make official comments about the draft plan.
