R98-146 AUTHORIZING REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

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, •: REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS L Objective �� The City of Decatur requests qualifications of consultants to prepare a draft of the Decatur Urbanized Area Transportation Study: 2020 Transportation Plan, a long-range transportation study covering the years 2000 through 2020. The successful applicant, working with the City of Decatur staff, with the Illinois Department of Transportation(IDOT), and with the committees of DUATS (the Decatur Urbanized Transportation Study(DUATS), will generate the data and perform the necessary research to completely update and revise the e�sting Long Range Transportation Plan: 1995-2014, which was adopted by DUATS in December, 1994. This revised plan, when adopted, will aid the City of Decatur and the DUATS constituent governments and agencies in maintaining full participation in the 1998 Transportation Equity Act for the 21 st Century. The 2020 Transportation Plan will, when completed, provide policy guidance to the City of Decatur and will serve as a significant data base for the update of the community's comprehensive plan. The 2020 Transportation Plan will address the full range of topics which were considered in the Long Range Transportation Plan:�95-2014, but will give special emphasis to these issues: The potential for the development of intermodal transportation corridors and facilities in the City of Decatur and Macon County, including linkages of air, auto, motor freight, rail, and bicycle/pedestrian routes. The possibility of completing the interstate loop around the City of Decatur, the potential benefits of its completion, and the intermodallinkages which might result. The possibility of the expansion of the Decatur Airport as a facility serving a11 of Central Illinois. Identifying ways to increase both ridership and revenues to the City's e�usting transit system. II. Project schedule Work on Phase I—the Policy and Data Review portion—of this project will begin on or about 7anuary 4, 1999, and will continue for a maximum of forty-five (45) days until the consultant's first written product, the Evaluation and Appraisal Report(EAR), is ready for review by City of Decatur staff, DUATS, and IDOT. The EAR will be forwarded for review by the end of business February 18, 1999. After fifteen(15) days of review by the three agencies, on or about Maxch 8, 1999, the consultant will commence Phase II—the update of the existing Long Range Transportation Plan: 1995-2014.