Re: [CTPP] UZA's, UC's and Functional Classification

Our office has not developed a timetable for completing the functional reclassification. But now that the maps are available states should begin working on it. We do not intend to modify the Census boundaries. However, states and locals could propose smoothing the boundaries (provided that it includes everything that Census has included). We also provided some flexibility in our Addendum to the Functional Classification Manual to allow states to make the urban rural changes at the nearest logical point (road intersection) rather than between intersections. Now that we have new urbanized boundaries, does FHWA have a timetable for updating functional classification of roadways? Beyond the shift of the arterials between urban and rural, we have rural minor collectors that may need to be reclassified as an urban collector (and urban collector could easily be a rural major collector). Will FHWA modify the census definition of urban for functional classifications? I haven't seen a map or our areas yet, but I'm guessing there will be roadways with the urban-rural boundary split down the middle of the road. There are also areas with a very urban character that will likely be designated rural because there is no population density. Frank Miller Missouri Department of Transportation - District 8