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Field Definitions
ID Number
Arranged to correspond to the gap’s demand score
Gap Type
Pedestrian and bicycle gap – no trail or sidewalk exists
Bicycle gap – only sidewalk exists
Gap Status
Current gap – gap currently exists, and is of immediate concern
Future gap – gap along a future road, or gap on a rural area slated for growth, or both.
Demand Score
Eleven criteria were used to determine the existing demand for all gaps. Road volume, speed, and number of lanes were not applied to the score of gaps along MnDOT and local roads. Dual Bicycle and pedestrian gaps were weighted double. The 11 criteria are:
Population
Employment
Shopping and Services
Households without Vehicles
Schools
Transit
Young and Old Population
RBTN
Road Volume
Road Lanes
Speed Limit
Ownership
The ownership of the adjacent roadway, or the agency defining the gap if the gap is not located along a roadway, such as a greenway gap.
Regional Bicycle Transportation Network (RBTN)
The RBTN, defined by the Metropolitan Council, designation of the gap.
Tier 1 Alignment
Tier 2 Alignment
Tier 1 Corridor
Tier 2 Corridor
Regional System
Whether the gap is part of Dakota County’s planned regional greenway system
Gap Weight
Each number represents the relation of a gap to the other side of a road
1 – Sidewalk, trail other side
2 – No trail/sidewalk, trail other side
3 – Sidewalk both sides
4 – Sidewalk, no trail/sidewalk other side
5 – No trail/sidewalk, sidewalk other side
6 – No trail/sidewalk both sides
County Planned
A gap line recognizes the existence of a trail gap, and not whether the County plans on completing it. This field was created to define the cases where it has been determined that the cost of a trail is prohibitively expensive due to ROW needs and other factors.
Municipality
The city or town the gap is located in.
The Regional Bicycle Transportation Network is a set of regionally significant existing and planned bicycle alignments and corridors. The RBTN was adopted by the Metropolitan Council as part of the 2040 Transportation Policy Plan on January 14, 2015.
The RBTN was completed for the entire Metropolitan Planning Area (MPA) as stipulated by the US Department of Transportation. Currently the MPA includes the 7 counties currently under the Metropolitan Council jurisdiction and extends into parts of Wright and Sherburne Counties. The boundary of the MPA is defined federal rules and is based density calculations from the US Census Bureau.The Metropolitan Council, as the Twin Cities Metropolitan Planning Organization, is required by federal law to include the entire MPA in all transportation related plans.
As stated in the 2040 TPP, the goal of the RBTN is to establish an integrated seamless network of on-street bikeways and off-road trails to most effectively improve conditions for bicycle transportation at the regional level and to encourage planning and implementation of future bikeways by cities, counties, parks agencies, and the state, in support of the network vision. The network is subdivided into two tiers for regional planning and investment prioritization.
Tier 1 Priority Regional Bicycle Transportation Corridors and Alignments.
Tier 1 corridors are shown as broad purple bands in the data layer and are scaled to a ½-mile buffer for the suburban and rural areas of the region, and to ¼-mile buffered bands within the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. These are the corridors where a more specific bikeway alignment has not yet been designated. Tier 1 corridors have been identified in the TPP as having the highest priority for regional transportation planning and investment.
Tier 1 alignments are shown as bold purple lines in the map layer and indicate where specific routes have been designated in the TPP. Tier 1 corridors and alignments are given the highest priority for transportation planning and investment in the TPP. These priority corridors and alignments are planned in locations where they can attract the most riders and where they can most effectively enhance mode choice in favor of biking, walking, and transit over driving alone. In addition, they provide the highest transportation function by connecting the most regional job and activity centers through the developed urban and suburban parts of the region.
Tier 2 Regional Bicycle Transportation Corridors and Alignments.
Tier 2 corridors are shown as broad green bands in the data layer and are scaled to a ½-mile buffer for the suburban and rural areas of the region, and to ¼-mile buffered bands within the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. These Tier 2 corridors are where a more specific bikeway alignment has not yet been designated. Tier 2 alignments are shown as bold green lines in the data layer and are where specific routes have been designated in the TPP.
Tier 2 corridors and alignments have been identified in the TPP as having the second highest priority for transportation planning and investment. These corridors and alignments provide transportation connectivity to outlying regional destinations within and beyond the urban/suburban areas and serve to connect Tier 1 corridors and alignments.
The linear features in this dataset which represent RBTN corridors are for illustrative purposes only. These linear features were used as the basis for the designation of a corridor where a RBTN alignment will be designated. Users should refer to the RBTN quarter and half mile buffers for a more accurate representation of the areas being considered for an RBTN alignment. Corridor centerlines are NOT recommended or suggested aligments.
The dataset uses primarily two fields. The first is the Aligment field. It is a binary field where 1 indicates that the linear feature represents an aligment and 0 indicated that the linear feature represents a cooridor. The second field is called Final The final field indicates which linear features are Tier 1 (PRBTC) or Tier 2 (Network) and whether they are aligments (with aligments) or cooridors (- no alignments).