Programming ISTEA Funding: Transportation Improvement Program Project Selection Process - Maximizing Regional Transportation Investments in ISTEA Era: A Guide for Programming ISTEA's Flexible Fund

Federal Highway Administration1994PDFTech ReportCapital District Transportation Committee (Albany, N.Y.)California. Metropolitan Transportation CommissionUnited States. Federal Highway AdministrationUnited StatesGovernment fundingRegional planningInvestmentsProgram managementFHWA-PD-95-004This is the fourth in a periodic series of reports issued by the Metropolitan Planning Division, Federal Highway Administration. The two reports in this issue focus on programming Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) funding. The first report provides a description of the multimodal project selection process used by the Capital District Transportation Committee in Albany, NY for its Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). These pages excerpted from the 1993-96 TIP focus on the project selection criteria used in developing its most recent an update. The second report provides a detailed discussion of the project selection process used by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. This report is divided into Sections based on the following four funding sources: Surface Transportation Program, Transportation Enhancement Activities, Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement, and Federal Transit Act Section 9. Note the a paper comparing and contrasting these two evaluation processes title "Multimodal Project Evaluation: A common Framework - Different Methods" (TRB-940215) was presented at the 1994 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting104