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NTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ; NTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-Transit Management ; NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-Traffic Flow ; NTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-Congestion ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Transit Planning and Policy ;

This report presents the test plan for developing, conducting, and analyzing surveys, interviews, and focus groups for evaluating the Minnesota Urban Partnership Agreement (UPA) under the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) UPA Program. The Minnesota UPA projects focus on reducing congestion by employing strategies consisting of combinations of tolling, transit, telecommuting/TDM, and technology, also known as the 4 Ts. Surveys, interviews, and focus groups will be used to identify the potential impacts of the UPA projects, especially on mode change in the I-35W corridor. This report outlines the anticipated surveys, interviews, and focus groups to be conducted to assist in evaluating the Minnesota UPA projects. Information on the stakeholder interviews, MnPASS user surveys, carpooler surveys, telecommuter surveys, on-board ridership surveys, focus groups on the real-time transit and traffic information dynamic message signs, interviews of special groups, and Tech Report activities is presented. The purpose and approach, participant recruitment protocol, preliminary questions, analysis methods, and schedule and responsibilities are discussed for the various surveys, interviews, and focus groups.