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The three proposed scenarios to be evaluated are: (1) freeway operations and management strategy as defined largely by the Freeway Performance Initiative, (2) High-Occupancy Vehicle (I30V)/High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) Network with supporting express/local bus transit, and (3) an aggressive rail and ferry network that reflects Regional Rail Plan and Water Transit Authority's ferry plan. Based on the scenario performance assessment, the RTP Vision ultimately would likely be a combination of all the strategies considered. The RTP Vision would be subject to further policy and financial discussions iuthe effort to define the financially constrained and. vision elements of the plan. Process for Project Submittal MTC staffwould like to solicit the Partnership's assistance in identifying projects and programs for consideration in the RTP Vision scenarios and project assessment. Our request to the Partnership is twofold: (1) we are requesting your help to update the project information for projects/progams identified in the financially constrained and vision elements of the Transportation.2030 Plan, attd (2) we are requesting that you submit, as necessary, new projects/programs for consideration in the RTP Vision. Rather than starting from scratch, MTC staff proposes to draw projects/programs from the Transportation 2030 Plan, updating projeetslprograms where needed. We would also extract pmjeets/programsidentified in cun•enf regionatplanning efforts such as the Freeway Performance Initiative (FPI), Regional Rail Plan, Regional High-Occupancy Toll (HOT)' Network Study, and the Northern California Trade and Mobility Comdor initiative (Prop. IB Trade Corridors). We would also seek projects(progams from current updates to the countywide transportation plans (CTPs) prepared by the Congestion Management Agencies (CMAs), short-range transit plans prepared by transit operators, ferry' master plan prepared by the Water Transit Authority (WTA), and other corridor studies prepared by Caltrans, CMAs, etc. To provide some guidance on what projects/programs should be submitted, below are parameters that the Partnership should consider when identifying new projects/programs for the RTP Vision, Project should be: - Major capacity investment to improve the safe and efficient travel of people and goods, such as widening of lanes on highways and principal arterials, new in4ercbanges, direct interchange connectors, truck climbing lanes, new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) or express bus services, new fixed guideway extensions, and other capacity improvements that provide for greater through-put - Major operational improvements such' as those considered in the Freeway Performance Initiative (FPI) and system management or safety investment such as ramp metering and auxiliary lanes e Project should be derived or consistent with existiug plaus or corridorstudies such as the Transportation 2030 Plan, CTPs, SRTPs, WTA's Ferry Plan, FPI, Regional HOT Network Study, Regional Rail Plan, etc. • Project should be defined sufficiently to generate sketch level data for evaluation and modeling purposes (roadway project: detailed project description, project limits, roadway detail; transit project: transit headways, routing/stops/stations; and transit fazes) • Project should not have been rejected in a recently completed corridor or planning study • Project should not have a fatal environmental flaw that couldnot be reasonably mitigated • Smaller projects, to the extent possible, need to be bundled into larger programmatic categories, such as bicycle and pedestrian projects, soundwalls, traffic calming program, PAGE 4