Project Prioritization Process

As part of the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan, the City Council in April adopted a new Project Prioritization Process (PPP) for the city's mobility investments. This model includes a number of criteria — known as "measures of effectiveness" or MOEs — that score potential projects based on how well they fulfill key community objectives, including:

• Efficiency
• Regional coordination
• Mobility choices
• Sustainable growth
• Investment and economic development
• Safety
• Environmental stewardship
• Neighborhood connectivity

These objectives, and the MOEs that go with them, are weighted in the PPP based on community feedback received from the people of Austin during the ASMP process — including at Austin Mobility Forums and via the first ASMP online survey.  The PPP was used this spring to evaluate 474 projects — derived from a list of more than 2,000 gaps in the Austin mobility network, as identified by citizens, city staff, and Austin's partner agencies in Central Texas. This evaluation was then used to develop the City's 2010 Mobility Priorities, to be considered for inclusion in a proposed 2010 mobility bond election.

Going forward, the city of Austin as well as other transportation planners in Central Texas can use the ASMP PPP to help guide mobility investments as we tackle the long-term transportation challenges facing our growing region.

Below you'll find supporting documents and information about the ASMP PPP and how it was developed and used. All documents are in .PDF format unless otherwise noted.

ASMP Project Prioritization Process (PPP)

Full report

Austin City Council presentation

ASMP 2010 Project Prioritization Results

Complete 2010 project list (474 projects)

Project scoring matrix

Complete Mobility Gap list (2000+ items)

ASMP Community Input Report

Austin Mobility Forums

Presentation materials: Community Objectives • Toolbox