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Transportation Resources: Local and Regional

Maintenance REQUESTS

  • SCDOT Street Finder Tool (to determine who is responsible for maintaining a specific road)
  • SCDOT Maintenance Work Form
  • Charleston County Department of Public Works, Transportation
  • Charleston County Work Order Request Form
  • Bike path or Sidewalk Maintenance 
  • City of Charleston Department of Transportation

Local and Regional Transportation

  • Charleston County Transportation Committee, Transportation Plan:  2020
  • Charleston Citywide Transportation Plan: 2018
  • Charleston County Road Funding
  • Charleston County Road Projects
  • Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council Of Governments (BCDCOG) Charleston Area Transportation Study (CHATS)
  • BCDCOG CHATS 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
  • BCDCOG CHATS LRTP Bicycle & Pedestrian Mobility
  • South Carolina Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Action Plan:  2022

Main Road Corridor & half-cent Sales Tax

  • Main Road Corridor (County website)
  • Kiawah Island Parkway Intersection  and Corridor Study, Town of Kiawah:  2022
  • Public Information Meeting Results:  2021
  • 2045 Projected Maximum Peak Hour Volume to Capacity (v/c) Ratios by Study Area Segment – Main Road Corridor Segment C:  2020
  • Main Road Segment A Stakeholders Meeting:  2019
  • County Council's Approval Sheet for the Main Road Corridor Project:  2018
  • 2016 Half-Cent Sales Tax Ordinance and Referendum:  2016
  • Sea Island Greenway

BEtsy Kerrison parkway

  •  Kiawah Island Parkway Intersection and Corridor Study (2022)  

Maybank Corridor Road Project

  • Maybank Highway improvements (County Website)
  • Pitchfork Layout
  • Maybank Highway Traffic Operational & Queuing Analysis: 2015
  • Maybank Highway Public Information Meeting:  2012
  • Maybank Hwy Improvement Recommendations (Pitchforks):  2009
  • Update to the Maybank Highway Widening Traffic Study;  2008 

Mark Clark Extension Road Project

  • Mark Clark Extension (SCDOT website)
  • Charleston County Projects, Mark Clark Expressway
  • Intergovernmental Agreement for Charleston County Mark Clark Expressway Extension Project:  2019
  • Mark Clark Expressway Financial Plan:  2018
  • Mark Clark Expressway Extension Reevaluation:  2016
  • A New Way to Work :2015
  • Conditions for Approval:  2013
  • Options for the Path Forward:  2012
  • SCDOT and USC Release Survey Results on the I-526 Extension Project: 2012
  • Mark Clark Expressway Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS):  2010
  • Mark Clark Community impact Assessment: 2006
  • County Application to the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank for Funding:  2005
  • Re-Routing Sought for Belt Freeway:  1969
  • Inner Belt Freeway:  1967

Public Transportation

  • BCD Available Transit
  • Lowcounty Rapid Transit

Other BCD Road Projects

  • US 52 Corridor Study (BCDCOG)
  • Highway 41 Corridor Improvements (County)
  • Highway 41 Corridor Purpose and Need (County)
  • Central Park Road and Riverland Drive Intersection Improvement (County)
  • I-526 Lowcountry Corridor (SCDOT)
  • I-526 Lowcountry Corridor WEST Purpose and Need (SCDOT)
  • Rethink Folly Road (BCDCOG)
  • Rethink Folly Road (City)

Hurricane evacuation

  • Hurricane drill along SC coast Thursday will test lane-reversal plans (8 June 2022)
  • Hurricane Evacuation Routes
  • South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Behavioral Study:  2011

Transportation Resources: NEPA

National Environmental Policy Act

  • Citizens Guide to NEPA
  • NEPA 101: Introduction to United States Environmental Policy

Transportation Resources: State and National

State Transportation

  • SCDOT Projects Under Development
  • SC Transportation Infrastructure Bank
  • SCDOT Strategic Plan
  • SCDOT 10 Year Plan
  • SCDOT Programs and Projects
  • SCDOT Access Management
  • SCDOT Adopts New "Complete Streets" Policy
  • SCDOT Traffic Counts
  • SCDOT Functional Road Class

Federal Transportation

  • 2021 Infrastructure Law

Transportation Resources: ROAD DESIGN

General

  • SCDOT Road Design Manual
  • SCDOT Right of Way Acquisition Manuals


  • A Roadmap to Understanding Transportation in Your Community 
  • Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks
  • Complete Streets
  • The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits (video)

Traffic Calming

  • Traffic Calming Primer, US DOT FHA
  • SCDOT Traffic Calming Guidelines (2019)

Roundabouts

  • Roundabouts spreading like Kudzu across South Carolina, despite some opposition (20 May 2017)
  • SCDOT Traffic Calming
  • Roundabout benefits
  • Roundabouts and Rural Highways (dot.gov)
  • Roundabouts:  An Informational Guide (National Cooperative Highway Research Program)
  • Turbo Roundabouts
  • Crash Reductions Following Installation of Roundabouts in the United States 
  • Roundabout Database
  • Roundabouts and Why They Work (video)
  • Roundabouts Improving Safety in South Carolina (video)

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