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PACKAGE A Includes roadway investments in 20-year
transportation system plans, increased transit services
and efforts to reduce travel demand.

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PACKAGE B Calls for widening existing arterials and
about the Washington
building new arterials in addition to the components
County Transportation
in Package A. Futures Study

PACKAGE C Includes additional highway lanes for trucks, transit and
carpools; a new northern connector from U.S. 26 to U.S. 30 and across
the river to the Port of Portland, a new north-south, limited-access road
between Hillsboro and Wilsonville and new express transit services.

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
Any form of human-powered transportation including walking, cycling,
using a non-mechanized wheelchair, in-line skating or skateboarding, etc.

The public was asked to provide said. “We use it in transportation “We asked the public for
input on the future scenarios as policy planning, engineering, input on how transportation
well as transportation concerns, financing, social viability, investment strategies could
which led to the identification environmental impact and more.” support accessibility, mobility
of more than 100 transportation and reliability, health and safety,
investments and strategies which The team also analyzed alternative environmental sustainability
were combined into three transportation packages and and equity.”
packages. Erin Wardell, principal strategies to reduce and manage
planner, Long Range Planning, congestion, including tolls, user The WCTFS final report will be
worked with transportation charges, self-driving cars and available in early 2017.
modeling — or forecasting — to new freight/shipping packages. Learn more about the WCTFS at
study the transportation packages.
“All of the work we’ve done in www.co.washington.or.us/wcts
“Transportation modeling, to put FY 2015–16 set the stage for the
it simply, mathematically predicts public comment period we just
future travel behavior based on finished (October/November
what we observe today,” Wardell 2016),” Deffebach said.

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