Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)

The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is the MPO’s short-term planning document. The TIP is a four-year program of highway and transit projects proposed for funding by federal, state and local resources within the San Angelo metropolitan area. The TIP is updated at least every two years. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) must jointly find that each metropolitan TIP is based on a continuing, comprehensive transportation process carried on cooperatively by the states, MPOs and transit operators in accordance with the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 134 and Section 8 of the Federal Transit Act (49 U.S.C. app. 1607). The TIP may be amended as transportation needs or funding levels change.

The TIP is financially constrained by year and includes a financial plan that demonstrates which projects can be implemented using current revenue sources and which projects can be implemented using proposed revenue sources while at the same time maintaining and operating the existing transportation system. Only projects for which construction and operating funds can reasonably be expected to be available are included.

Projects listed in the TIP must be consistent with the long-range transportation plan. In addition to those projects, regionally significant transportation projects are included. A regionally significant project means a transportation project that is on a facility which serves regional transportation needs (such as access to and from the area outside of the region, major activity centers in the region, major planned developments such as new retail malls, sports complexes, etc., or transportation terminals as well as most terminals themselves) and would normally be included in the modeling of a metropolitan area's transportation network, including at a minimum all principal arterial highways and all fixed guide-way transit facilities that offer an alternative to regional highway travel.

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