CarShare VT worked on two core tasks designed to advance long-term behavior change and reduce dependence on personal vehicles: (1) Planning and evaluation activities focused on assessing programs and services to identify optimal locations for CarShare VT’s shared vehicles and maximize participation among Burlington area residents. These efforts also included planning activities that supported local and regional transportation demand management (TDM) initiatives and advanced the goals of existing state, municipal, and regional transportation plans; (2) Outreach and education activities built upon CarShare VT’s FY25 UPWP-funded market research, which identified key opportunities and barriers to carsharing adoption. Efforts during FY26 focused on increasing public awareness and understanding of carsharing, with the goals of expanding membership, improving member retention, and encouraging greater use of shared mobility options.

The VT 127 Shared Use Path Scoping Study explores opportunities to create a new multimodal connection between North Avenue and the existing VT 127 Shared Use Path in Burlington, VT. The project team developed several alternatives for this connection, guided by ongoing input from the public and key stakeholder groups. Each alternative was evaluated for its alignment with the project’s Purpose and Needs Statement, its potential impacts on natural, cultural, and historic resources, its consistency with regional planning efforts, and its estimated implementation costs. In addition to scoping the new connection, the study also includes two technical memos summarizing a Safety Assessment of the path as it relates to roadway departure crashes from VT 127, and a Path Widening Feasibility Assessment. These recommendations reflect both technical analysis and community priorities for this crucial active transportation facility.

The VT 127 Shared Use Path Scoping Study explores opportunities to create a new multimodal connection between North Avenue and the existing VT 127 Shared Use Path in Burlington, VT. The project team developed several alternatives for this connection, guided by ongoing input from the public and key stakeholder groups. Each alternative was evaluated for its alignment with the project’s Purpose and Needs Statement, its potential impacts on natural, cultural, and historic resources, its consistency with regional planning efforts, and its estimated implementation costs. In addition to scoping the new connection, the study also includes two technical memos summarizing a Safety Assessment of the path as it relates to roadway departure crashes from VT 127, and a Path Widening Feasibility Assessment. These recommendations reflect both technical analysis and community priorities for this crucial active transportation facility.

The goal of this study was to assess the feasibility of replacing the existing rail bridge over the Barge Canal at the Burlington Rail Yard with a wider structure to accommodate additional rail sidings to improve the operations and efficiency of the yard. The study used existing data, plans, and other information to develop bridge concepts, evaluate benefits and impacts including risks to the Superfund Site, and develop planning level cost estimates.

This impact fee study report proposes how land use development in the form of additional transportation capacity in the city of Burlington can accommodate new users and the demand they generate on existing infrastructure. Impact fees are a type of land use regulation that local governments use to generate revenue to construct additional mobility capacity to address and mitigate this demand. The CCRPC, on behalf of the City of Burlington, retained RSG to develop this needs study to identify a fair and equitable impact fee structure for its transportation investments.

The intent of this project is to build a long-term plan for expanding electric vehicle charger capacity for CarShare Vermont's fleet of shared vehicles. This entailed identifying both existing and future parking locations that would be able to host electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), working in collaboration with property owners and an electrical contractor. It also included updating legal parking agreements with provisions for installing such equipment. Throughout the project, CSVT expected to coordinate with local municipalities and other partners to seek out opportunities to synchronize goals and electrification implementation, and to document common challenges encountered when attempting to work with stakeholders to install charging equipment for the publicly accessed carsharing use case. This plan details the next steps CarShare Vermont can take to implement new EV charging opportunities identified by this planning project, and also reports on the lessons and insights encountered over the course of the project.

The PlanBTV Safety Action Plan was built on the previous 2017 PlanBTV Walk Bike plan reinvigorating the City of Burlington's commitment to safer streets by pledging action in a Safe Systems Approach and  Vision Zero philosophy marching towards eliminating transportation related deaths and serious injuries for all road users.  The primary goal of the Safety Action Plan is to identify strategies, countermeasures, and actions that align with the State's "Toward Zero Deaths" ethos, particularly for pedestrians and bicyclists.

The Battery Street Scoping Study was conducted by VHB and the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) in coordination with the City of Burlington Department of Public Works (City). The primary objective of the study was to identify and prioritize improvements along the Battery Street corridor to better and more safely accommodate all roadway users. Key goals included, improving safety and accessibility for all users and strengthening connections to adjacent parks and businesses. To achieve these goals, the project team conducted a thorough review of existing conditions, solicited and incorporated public and stakeholder input, performed a comprehensive alternatives analysis, and ultimately developed a preferred concept plan.

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The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) and the City of Burlington retained Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc. (Hoyle Tanner) to prepare this Sidewalk Scoping Study to investigate the potential of providing 5’ wide concrete sidewalks along three sections of residential streets in the New North End neighborhood. These street sections include: 1. Stanbury Road from Staniford Road to Brierwood Lane (0.19 miles) 2. Cottage Grove from Grey Meadow Drive to North Avenue (0.39 miles) 3. Green Acres Drive from Cottage Grove to North Avenue (0.35 miles)