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NJDOT has revised the New Jersey urban area based upon the 2020 U.S. Census urban area boundaries. The U.S. Census defines an Urbanized Area as any area with a population >= 5,000. Under the 2020 Urban Area definition, Urban Clusters are no longer a classification. FHWA, however, has slightly different criteria for what defines an urban area. Under FHWA, an Urban Area is >= 5,000, with Small Urban Areas 5,000-49,999 and Urbanized Areas >= 50,000. NJDOT followed the FHWA urban area definitions for this urban area update. To perform this update, NJDOT used the 2020 US Census urban areas greater than 5,000 in population. Since census urban area boundaries are based upon census block boundaries, which can be irregular, NJDOT extended outward the urban area (\"smoothed\") to the nearest road, stream, political boundary, or manmade feature. When a roadway is used as the adjusted boundary, the following buffers will be applied to include the right of way of the roadway: 50\u2019 from undivided roadway centerlines (single centerline) and 80\u2019 from divided roadway centerlines (dual centerline). Where there was no obvious boundary to smooth to, the census boundary was retained. NJDOT also expanded the urban area to include any densely developed areas not included in the 2020 census urban areas. The urban area update underwent a thorough public review and comment period. Representatives from NJDOT and the 3 metropolitan planning organizations (NJTPA, SJTPO, and DVRPC) met during various phases of the project to review the updated urban area. All comments were logged into an Urban Area Comment Tracking Form, and an official NJDOT response was provided for each comment. Further revisions were made to the urban area based upon comments from FHWA. These revisions were limited in scope and consisted of the following: 1) Smoothed the urban boundary outward at water boundaries: 1000\u2019 from corporate boundary / shoreline for coastal areas and 500\u2019 from corporate boundary / shoreline for bay areas. 2) Utilize Census State Boundary for the state boundary except for coastal boundaries.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>", "summary": "The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), Bureau of Transportation Data and Support (BTD&S), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is required to update the urban area and functional classification of roadways following the decennial Census as part of the Federal-Aid highway funding program. This dataset contains the updated urban area boundaries for the 2020 Census update cycle.", "title": "NJDOT Adjusted 2020 Urban Areas", "tags": [ "New Jersey", "New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT)", "Division of Capital Investment Planning and Grant Administration", "Bureau of Transportation Data and Support (BTD&S)", "U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)", "Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)", "North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA)", "Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC)", "South Jersey Transportation Planning Commission (SJTPO)", "U.S. Census Bureau", "2020 Census", "Urban Area", "Urban Boundary", "Urbanized Area", "roads", "railroads", "streams", "urban", "rural", "transportation", "NJ Roadway Network", "political boundary", "boundaries", "imageryBaseMapsEarthCover", "planningCadastre", "transportation" ], "type": "", "typeKeywords": [], "thumbnail": "", "url": "", "minScale": 150000000, "maxScale": 5000, "spatialReference": "", "accessInformation": "New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT)", "licenseInfo": "

Contact: Eric Oberle, Bureau of Transportation Data and Support, New Jersey Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 600, Trenton, NJ 08625, 609-963-1881, eric.oberle@dot.nj.gov<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>", "portalUrl": "" }