DEPARTMENT: Transportation & Capital Improvements Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie, PE, Director/City Engineer
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization scoring criteria for the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) projects
SUMMARY:
The Transportation & Capital Improvements Department (TCI) will provide a briefing to the City Council Transportation Committee on the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) call for projects and scoring criteria for the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP).
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The MPO includes all of Bexar, Comal, and Guadalupe Counties, and a portion of Kendall County. As part of the MPO's planning process, the TIP is developed cooperatively among the partner agencies to determine the allocation of federal transportation funds for major roadway, highway, bicycle, pedestrian, public transportation, and other projects.
The TIP is a four-year financially constrained list of transportation projects that is approved for federal and state funding by the MPO Transportation Policy Board. The TIP is updated every two years and amended quarterly. The current TIP covers FY 2017-2020 and includes roadway, transit, bicycle, pedestrian, and other projects. On June 1, 2017, the MPO issued a call for projects for the FY 2019-2022 TIP and is anticipated to be approved by the MPO Transportation Policy Board by May 2018.
Projects submitted for funding consideration will be grouped into the following five categories for evaluation purposes:
* Added Capacity Projects - Roadway projects which add through travel lanes for vehicles; these projects are to also include new or replacement bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Roadway projects must be on federally functionally classified roadways and not local streets.
* Operational Improvement Projects - Projects which improve the operational function of a facility without adding through travel lanes. ...
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