Corridors

One of the building blocks of the technical analysis is the transportation corridor - an area within which a specific transit investment may be made. A "corridor" is just the area that lies between one place and another. Major transit capital investments connect places, so the area through which they would run is called a corridor. As a starting point, the project's Technical Oversight Committee collected all the corridors in the study area where a major transit capital investment has been proposed in a regional or local plan, study or report. A map of these corridors, showing a mile wide cross-section with a potential transit alignment running down the middle, can be seen here.

The project staff, working with the technical oversight committee, then created 16 potentially independent or "stand-alone" corridors, most of which would connect to one or more of the region's principal travel market places, such as the universities or downtowns. A schematic map of these 16 corridors can be seen here (7.8mb), and tables describing these corridors can be seen here. Included in the tables is the status of each corridor in the current 2030 Long Range Transportation Plan and whether a corridor was examined as part of the recent service expansion scenario planning effort undertaken on behalf of the mayors of Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill.

It is important to remember that these corridors are just a starting point for analysis, and that investment scenarios can be created that combine corridors or parts of corridors.