Item B: Funding Strategies for Transportation System Operations, Maintenance, and Preservation

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Appendix A Glossary of Transportation System Terminology Eugene?s transportation system consists of a number of elements, TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM ASSET INVENTORY including streets, sidewalks, bicycle Streetsowned/maintained by City.......484 centerline miles paths, traffic signs and signals, and Major arterials........................ 9.7 miles C street trees and other amenities Minor arterials...................... 67.0 miles C designed to make Eugene?s Collectors.......................... 33.9 miles C transportation system functional as Neighborhood collectors................28.5 miles C well as compatible with Local streets........................345.1 miles C neighborhoods.The transportation Alleys......................................43 miles system includes various functional Bikepaths (off-street).........................27 miles street classifications (arterials, Bike lanes (on-street) and bike routes.............85 miles collectors, and local streets) as well Median area.............................960,258 sq. ft. as alleys and unimproved streets, and Sidewalks and pedestrian ways.................601 miles extensive off-street bicycle network. (includes 5,588 sidewalk access ramps) The following are descriptions of the Street lights................................... 7,300 various component types as well as Street trees....................................75,000 other terms relevant to the Traffic signs.................................. 15,200 transportation system. Traffic signals...................................222 ? The most heavily used streets in the street system. Major arterials are usually four Arterial streets or more lanes, serve as major access routes to regional destinations, and carry an average of more than 20,000 vehicles per day. Minor arterials are usually two or three lanes in width, provide intra-city connectivity, and carry between 7,500 and 20,000 vehicles per day. Eugene has 9.7 miles of major arterials and 67 miles of minor arterials. ? Eugene?s bicycle transportation system includes on-street bike lanes and routes (85 Bicycle system miles) and off-street paths (approximately 27 miles). Operation, maintenance and preservation of the bicycle system is similar to the work done on vehicle travel lanes: cleaning, signing, lighting, patching and overlaying for preservation when possible, and reconstruction when the path bed has significantly deteriorated. ? The portion of the annuallyadopted budget that allocates specific funds to specific Capital budget capital projects or capital project categories. ? A multi-year plan used to establish project and funding CapitalImprovement Program (CIP) priorities. The City of Eugene adopted its CIP for FY2002-2007 in February 2001. ? Streets that carry less traffic than arterials and provide access to neighborhoods and Collector streets commercialand industrial areas. Major collectors typically carry between 2,500 and 7,000 vehicles, and neighborhood collectors typically carry between 1,500 and 2,500 vehicles per day. Eugene has approximately33.9 miles of major collectors and 28.5 miles of neighborhood collectors. ? Streets constructed in accordance with the specifications established by the Eugene Improved street PublicWorksDepartment. Improved streets generally include engineered road beds and surfaces, storm A1