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NEPA RPO - TIP
What is the Transportation Improvement Program or TIP?
The NEPA RPO Committee develops a Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). What is a TIP you ask, well a TIP is an agreed upon list, covering a four year period, of transportation priorities. It is a project specific, fiscally constrained by year transportation program of highway, bridge, and transit priorities for a region.
The federal transportation law known as the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) requires a TIP. TEA-21, enacted in 1998, authorizes federal funding for highway, bridge, transit, and other surface transportation programs. The TIP is the document used for budgeting the funds needed to make transportation improvements. So, as is important for any good budget, the federal law requires that the TIP be financially constrained to the amount of funds that are expected to be available. Therefore, once the TIP is developed any additions/deletions must have corresponding deletions/additions in order to maintain a balance.
The TIP is submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and becomes a part of the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The STIP is a compilation of all of the TIPs from the regional agencies across the Commonwealth. The STIP is the official document, submitted by PENNDOT, to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for approval.
The STIP/TIP shows estimated costs and schedule of a project by phase, including preliminary engineering, final design, utilities, right–of–way acquisition, and construction. The TIP may be changed after it is adopted by the NPRTPO. The approved TIP can be modified or amended to add, delete, or advance projects, or to accommodate cost and phase of work changes. Inclusion of a project phase in the TIP is not a guarantee or commitment of funds. However, being listed on the TIP is a requirement for consideration of funds to a project, and means that the project will have a good chance of being implemented.
The TIP is updated every two years.
2009 - 2012 TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
(Current TIP)
Documents
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Memorandum of Understanding – Procedures for 2009-2012 STIP and TIP Modifications
- Air Quality Conformity Analysis Report for the NEPA RPO Ozone Nonattainment Area - Volume I Executive Summary
- Air Quality Conformity Analysis Report for the NEPA RPO Ozone Nonattainment Area - Volume II Technical Analysis
- FFY 2009-2012 NEPA TIP – Public Transit (Public Version Projec/2009-2012 NEPA RPO TIP - H&B - Public Version.pdf FFY 2009-2012 NEPA TIP – Highway & Bridge (Public Version Project Listing)
- FFY 2009-2012 NEPA TIP – Interstate Highway & Bridge (Public Version Project Listing)
- FFY 2009-2012 NEPA TIP – Public Transit Spreadsheet Version
- FFY 2009-2012 NEPA TIP – Highway & Bridge Spreadsheet Version
- FFY 2009-2012 NEPA TIP – Interstate Highway & Bridge Spreadsheet Version
- Environmental Justice Analysis Determination - Maps and Narrative
- Rebuilding Pennsylvania – Bond Funding Summary
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Rural Transportation Planning Organization (NPRTPO) Committee has distributed for public review the following documents: 2011-2014 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) including highway, bridge and transit project listings, TIP administrative procedures, air quality conformity analysis and environmental justice analysis determination. These documents concern highway, bridge, and transit projects for Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Schuylkill, and Wayne counties for the four-year TIP, which will become effective on October 1, 2010. TIP documentation will be available for public review from June 17, 2010 through 10:00 a.m.July 20, 2010 at the NEPA Alliance office and on our website at http://www.nepa-alliance.org/NPRTPO-TIP-Update.html . A public hearing will be held at the NEPA office on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. to receive public testimony on these documents.
2011-2014 TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
(TIP-Effective 1-2010)
2011-2014 NEPA TIP Administrative Actions Guidelines
2011-2014 Interstate Public Version
2011-2014 Interstate Spreadsheet