Thank you for your interest in the Community Transportation Technical Assistance Program (CTTA). This document explains the CTTA program and format, and includes a form for

applying to the program.

Program Purpose

The purpose of the CTTA program is to provide municipal officials with technical advice on local transportation concerns such as traffic operations, safety, bicycle and pedestrian access, livability, parking, and bus stop locations.

Between 2009 and 2013, MPO and Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) staff

conducted studies in Arlington, Danvers, Everett, Marshfield, Milford, Milton, Reading, Revere, Rockport, Sudbury, Swampscott, Walpole, Weston, Winchester, and Wrentham.

Recommendations from those studies focused on:

• Safety and operational improvements for pedestrian circulation

• Accommodations for bicyclists

• Traffic calming

• Livability improvements

• Intersection redesign for effective and safe traffic channeling

• Traffic-signal evaluations, and

• Access management

Examples of final reports are available at: www.ctps.org/Drupal/community_assistance.

The program is open to all of the 101 municipalities in the MPO region. When evaluating

requests for technical assistance, MPO and MAPC staff consider whether they can provide useful feedback on the municipality’s particular issues and if they can do so in a financially modest, time-efficient manner.

Format

Typically, a team of transportation engineers and planners from the MPO and the MAPC meet with municipal officials to visit a specific site, observe existing conditions, and discuss issues of concern. Afterwards, MPO/MAPC staff will document the identified issues, perform any needed analysis, and offer recommendations for addressing the municipality’s concerns.

 

Municipal officials interested in having such an assessment conducted in their communities are invited to submit the information below via email or mail to:

Efi Pagitsas, Manager of Traffic Analysis and Design

epagitsas@ctps.org

Central Transportation Planning Staff

State Transportation Building

Ten Park Plaza, Suite 2150

Boston, MA 02116

617.973.7106

or

Eric Bourassa, Transportation Manager

ebourassa@mapc.org

Metropolitan Area Planning Council

60 Temple Place

Boston, MA 02111

617.451.2770

If you have any questions, please contact Efi.

Your Name

Your Title/Role

City/Town

 

Brief description of the location and issue(s) you would like the CTTA program to examine (add extra sheets if needed):

 

How did you hear about the CTTA Program?