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3-C

Continuing, Cooperative, and Comprehensive: By Federal regulation the APO must follow a 3-C planning process.

ADT

Average Daily Traffic: The total number of vehicles that cross a specific point along a roadway over a number of days divided by the number of days. For example, a automated traffic counter might record the following daily traffic over three days: 10,000 on day 1; 12,000 on day 2; 8,000 on day 3. The ADT is calculated thus: 10,000+12,000+8,000=30,000/3 days=10,000 vehicles (on average) per day.

ALOP

Annual Listing of Obligated Projects: A status report on transportation projects for which funding was obligated in previous years.

APO

Saint Cloud Area Planning Organization: The organization designated by agreement between the Governor, local unit of government, and relevant agencies as being responsible for carrying out the terms of 23 USC Sec. 134. The APO is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Saint Cloud urban area.

ATAC

Active Transportation Advisory Committee: A sub-committee of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) which focuses on the identifying and addressing the needs of active transportation modes such as bicycling and walking.

ATP

Area Transportation Partnership: These committees of local governments, relevant agencies, and MnDOT staff were created by MnDOT to enhance regional intergovernmental planning and increase cooperative development of the four-year State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP).

CPG

Consolidated Planning Grant: A combination of planning grant funds from the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration.

CSAH

County State Aid Highway: A roadway that is operated and maintained by a county but for which the county receives state aid funding. Generally, the state views these roadways as key facilities for statewide or regional mobility.

FHWA

Federal Highway Administration: The Federal administration responsible for monitoring and facilitating the construction and maintenance of the National Highway System. The APO is a recipient of an annual planning grant from FHWA.

FTA

Federal Transit Administration: The Federal administration responsible for monitoring and facilitating the operations and capital improvement of public transit providers. The APO is a recipient of an annual planning grant from FTA.

GIS

Geographic Information Systems: A framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing spatially-related data. For example, GIS can be used to map crash reports in order to determine which roadway intersections are experiencing the highest crash rates.

IIJA

The Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (public law 117-58) signed into law on Nov. 15, 2021. Part of the law establishes federal funding authorizations for surface transportation for the years 2022-2026.

MnDOT

Minnesota Department of Transportation: The State department with which the APO coordinates on transportation issues and which has oversight responsibilities for ensuring the APO complies with applicable Federal and State requirements.

MPA

Metropolitan Planning Area: The geographic area in which the APO carries out its planning activities. The MPA must include at least the US Census-defined urban area, but may also include any additional urban or urbanizing areas and/or commuter travel-sheds as deemed appropriate by the member jurisdictions of the APO.

MPCA

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: The State agency responsible for monitoring environmental quality and enforcing environmental regulations in Minnesota.

MPO

Metropolitan Planning Organization: An organization designated by agreement between the Governor of a state, units of local governments of an urban area, and relevant agencies as being responsible for carrying out the terms of 23 USC Sec. 134. Any urban area of more than 50,000 people must have an MPO. As of 2015, there were 408 MPOs in the United States. The Saint Cloud APO is the MPO for the Saint Cloud metropolitan area.

MTP

Metropolitan Transportation Plan: The regional transportation plan with at least a 20 year planning horizon, developed cooperatively between the units of government and relevant agencies which are members of the APO.

RFP

Request for Proposals: This is a document used to procure consultant services. The RFP outlines the goals and objectives of a project or study and provides a not-to-exceed budget. Interested consultants then respond by writing and submitting a proposal to provide the required services.

SEP

Stakeholder Engagement Plan: The document that identifies when and how the APO will engage the public during the planning process. In Federal regulations, this document is called the "Public Participation Plan." The APO's SEP also includes our Title VI and Limited English Proficiency Plan.

SRTS

Safe Routes to School: A national initiative that works to make it safe, convenient, and fun for students to walk and bike to and from school.

STBGP

Surface Transportation Block Grant Program: Flexible funding from the Federal Government that may be used by states and localities for projects to preserve and improve the conditions and performance on any Federal-aid highway, bridge or tunnel project on any public road, pedestrian or bicycle infrastructure, and transit capital purchases, including intercity bus terminals.

TA

Transportation Alternatives: Funding from the Federal Government that may be used by state and localities for projects including, but not limited to, the creation of facilities for pedestrians and bicycles, environmental mitigation or habitat protection related to highway construction or operations, as well as infrastructure and non-infrastructure related to Safe Routes to School (SRTS) activities.

TAC

Technical Advisory Committee: The TAC is a committee of planners and engineers representing the local member governments and relevant agencies which is responsible for providing technical advice and guidance to the Policy Board and APO staff.

TAZ

Traffic Analysis Zone: A geographic area used in the Travel Demand Model (TDM). TAZs are assigned socio-economic attributes such as population, number of households, square feet of commercial space, and other data relevant to trip production or attraction.

TH

Trunk Highway: A major roadway connecting two or more cities that is operated and maintained by the State Department of Transportation and is the recommended or preferred route for long-distance and freight trips. In Minnesota, Trunk Highways are numbered, such as TH-15 or TH-23 and they may also be designated as MN-15 or MN-23.

TDM

Travel Demand Model: A computer model used to forecast traffic and traffic congestion under a variety of land use and roadway network conditions.

TPMR

Transportation Performance Monitoring Report: An annual report on how the transportation networks are functioning relative to the APO's adopted performance measures. The TPMR is a product of the APO's Transportation System Performance Monitoring (TSPM) program.

TIP

Transportation Improvement Program: The document that programs Federal funding for surface transportation projects within the MPA.

TSPM

Transportation System Performance Monitoring: An APO program in which staff collect and analyze transportation performance data in order to discover problem areas and help prioritize the programming of transportation improvement projects. The Transportation Performance Monitoring Report (TPMR) is a product of the TSPM.

UPWP

Unified Planning Work Program: A Federally required statement of work identifying the planning priorities and activities to be carried out by the APO staff. The UPWP includes the APO's annual budget and it identifies any special studies and consultant contracts for the fiscal year.

CURRENT UPWP   //  Pavement Condition Data Collection

Pavement Condition Data Collection

Proposals are Due by February 7, 2025

Download the RFP

Background & Description

Understanding current pavement conditions allows responsible jurisdictions to appropriately prioritize roadway resurfacing and maintenance projects. Currently, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) collects roadway pavement condition data at least every three years for the National Highway System (NHS) along with all county roadways within the APO’s planning area. While valuable, MnDOT’s process still leaves out many collectors, arterials, and other key roadways. The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to collect pavement quality conditions for those Federal-Aid roadways within the APO’s Metropolitan Planning Area (MPA) for which MnDOT does not otherwise collect pavement condition data.

The approved performance measure for pavement conditions within the MPA is the International Roughness Index (IRI).

The APO estimates that there are approximately 235 lane-miles of roadway for which the consultant would need to collect pavement condition data. This is a rough estimate only, and respondents should budget time for finalizing the map/locations of roadways that need to be measured.

Respondents do NOT need to collect data for NHS roadways (MnDOT already does that) nor for the county roadways for which MnDOT already collects pavement condition data. However, we do ask that the successful consultant finds the latest MnDOT pavement condition data and combines it with the pavement condition data that the consultant collects to present one holistic picture of pavement conditions across the MPA.

In addition to roadway pavement condition data, the APO also desires to collect pavement condition data for all shared-use paths in the MPA. We estimate there are approximately 135 centerline miles of shared-use paths within the MPA. Data collection should be performed in both directions on each path.

Pavement conditions for shared-use paths should be collected using a bicycle as that is how users experience shared-use paths.

Goals

The goals of this effort are to:

  1. Collect and/or record pavement condition data for all minor collectors, major collectors, minor arterials, principal arterials, and interstate roadways within the MPA.
  2. Collect pavement conditions for shared-use paths within the MPA.
  3. Provide the APO’s jurisdictions with a resource to which they can refer in order to understand the pavement maintenance needs for both roadways and shared-use paths within their jurisdiction and across the entire MPA.

Deliverable(s)

The final deliverables of this effort will be:

  1. A series of PDF maps showing roadway pavement conditions according to the most recent pavement condition data collection effort, including data collected by MnDOT. The maps are intended to be resources for jurisdictional staff to assist in identifying and prioritizing pavement condition needs. There should be a map showing the entire MPA, as well as maps showing each individual city over 5,000 population within the APO.
  2. A series of PDF maps showing shared-use path pavement conditions according to the most recent pavement condition data collection effort. There should be a map showing the entire MPA, as well as maps showing each individual city over 5,000 population within the APO.
  3. A set of geodatabase files compatible with ESRI’s ArcGIS detailing pavement conditions for all roadways with in the MPA for which pavement condition data is available – one GIS layer for roadways and a second separate layer for shared-use paths.
  4. A written report detailing how the data was collected and the results of the data collection effort.

Previous Work

The previous (2019) roadway pavement condition data collection report can be seen here: https://stcloudapo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pavement-Condition-Report-2019.pdf.

The previous (2020) shared-use path pavement condition data collection report can be seen here: https://stcloudapo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/St-Cloud-APO-Pavement-Conditions-Final-Report.pdf.