Central Indiana Transportation Study

In late 2008, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and Central Indiana Community Foundation brought together a group of business leaders to form the Central Indiana Transit Task Force (CITTF). With the goal of meeting Central Indiana's mobility needs and improving its economic competitiveness, CITTF developed a series of recommendations for the region's transportation system. We worked with CITTF to develop and deliver a comprehensive planning and evaluation approach.

Design of highway and transit systems is traditionally the realm of planners and engineers. CITTF sought to enlist the expertise of private sector leaders to develop and present a preferred transportation strategy for Central Indiana based on the economic value to the region. We formed a multidisciplinary team and created a sequential process through which planners and engineers designed technical alternatives, economists and financial analysts evaluated their cost-benefit and affordability, and the results of the economic findings were directly applied to developing further technical alternatives. The combined planning and economic process continued until the best-value combination of highway and transit capital investments and non-capital initiatives emerged.