The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (Tollway), seeks a consultant to prepare a vision for the northeastern Illinois expressway system.

The document will be a comprehensive, planning-level examination of the investments and management strategies needed to improve the condition and performance of the expressway system, including corridor recommendations supported by conceptual engineering and order-of-magnitude cost estimation.

The project will also include estimating revenue from tolling and value capture as well as solutions for traffic diversion impacts. The study will also evaluate policy changes needed to effectively operate a cohesive, multi-modal regional transportation system. The study should reflect and build on CMAP's comprehensive regional plan, GO TO 2040, and contribute to CMAP's next plan, ON TO 2050.

The objective is to take a fresh, innovative look at the expressways and chart a bold, long-term course for the system, regardless of ownership, that future IDOT and Tollway capital programs and operating policies can draw from.

The full RFP is available at http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/about/requests-for-proposals.