Responsibilities and Challenges Questions (Continued)

27.
In your opinion, how much of a challenge, if any, do the following issues present for your MPO in carrying out the federal requirements for transportation planning? (Select one answer in each row.)
 
    Very great challenge Great challenge Moderate challenge Some or little challenge No challenge No basis to judge
27a.
Lack of transportation planning funding
27b.
Competing priorities between transportation planning and other duties
27c.
Obtaining public input
27d.
Lack of flexibility of transportation planning funding (e.g., the lack of ability to use federal MPO funds on non-transportation planning activities)
27e.
Lack of ability to find funding sources for local match of federal transportation planning funds
27f.
Fiscally constraining the long-range transportation plan and short-range TIP
   

    Very great challenge Great challenge Moderate challenge Some or little challenge No challenge No basis to judge
27g.
Limited authority to implement short-range projects and plans
27h.
Limitations in travel demand modeling capacity
27i.
Data limitations
27j.
Coordination with other land-use planning agencies
27k.
Coordination with other regional planning entities (e.g., neighboring MPOs and overlapping regional councils)
27l.
Coordination with your state DOT
27m.
Lack of trained staff
27n.
Other issues – Please specify below.
   

 
Please specify other issues here.
   


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