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Guidelines for development : Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPs) and the Iowa Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP).
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2011-02-01
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Abstract:This document serves as a reference guide to local planning agencies for the development of their regional Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). Any questions regarding content or relating to the STIP process should be addressed to the region’s Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) district planner. A list of district planners, and their areas of responsibility, is included in Appendix 1. Transit-related questions should be addressed to the Iowa DOT’s Office of Public Transit, 800 Lincoln Way, Ames, Iowa 50010, or telephone 515-233-7870.
The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy of Users (SAFETEA-LU) continues the requirement that an extensive, ongoing and cooperative planning effort for the programming of federal funds be undertaken. Regional TIPs and the STIP are two vital components of this planning effort. Regional TIPs serve as a list of federal-aid eligible surface transportation improvements for the region. Locally sponsored projects are combined with Iowa DOT-sponsored projects to create the STIP. Each project or project phase included in the STIP must be consistent with the long-range statewide transportation plan and, in metropolitan planning areas, consistent with an approved metropolitan planning organization (MPO) transportation plan. In nonmetropolitan areas, consistency with an approved regional planning association (RPA) transportation plan is required. Consistency requires projects to flow out of the project identification, evaluation and prioritization process that has been developed to implement a strategy or objective of these long-range transportation plans.
The Iowa DOT annually requests that Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) jointly verify that MPO and RPA TIPs are consistent with the transportation plans produced as part of the continuing and comprehensive transportation process carried out cooperatively by MPO, RPA, statewide and public transportation operators. No FHWA or FTA funded project can receive authorization, until the project is included in the first year of the STIP and has been approved by the FHWA or FTA.
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