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• Local /regional plan consistency <br />• Multimodal accessibility <br />• Public input <br />• Local input points (or policy committee input) <br />• Connectivity /accessibility <br />• Economic development <br />• Environmental justice <br />• Land use and development support <br />NCDOT requires MPOs to use at least two criteria (with one being qualitative) when ranking projects. Statewide projects <br />are only scored quantitatively, therefore local input is only provided for projects included at the regional and division <br />levels (maximum of 100 points). <br />Project Type <br />Statewide <br />Regional <br />Division <br />Quantitative Scoring% <br />100 <br />70 <br />50 <br />Local Input Scoring% <br />N/A <br />30 <br />50 <br />Total Score <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />Highway Projects <br />Highway projects may be scored and funded by any of the three funding categories (Statewide, Regional, or Division). <br />NCDOT has developed a different highway project scoring process for each of the three funding categories. The BGMPO <br />will utilize the scoring processes developed by NCDOT to preliminarily rank projects to be submitted to NCDOT SPOT for <br />evaluation. A project that is eligible for the Statewide funding category but is not funded under that category can <br />cascade down to the Regional category for evaluation and possible funding. If the project is not funded under the <br />Regional category, the project may cascade down to the Division category for evaluation and possible funding. <br />For Prioritization 5.0, Division 7 adopted a set of alternate criteria for highway projects (alternate criteria was not an <br />option for non - highway projects). Those alternate criteria are shown below: <br />Funding <br />Category <br />Quantitative Data <br />Local Input <br />Division <br />MPo <br />Input <br />Input <br />Benefit /Cost = 25% <br />Measurement of travel time savings and safety benefits the project is expected to provide over 10 <br />years compared to the cost of the project to NCDOT. <br />Congestion = 30% <br />Measurement of the Peak ADTtraffic volume on the roadway compared to the existing capacity of <br />the roadway, weighted by the total traffic volume along the roadway. <br />•60% Existing Volume /Capacity Ratio •40% Existing Volume <br />Economic Competitiveness = 10% <br />Statewide <br />Measurement of the estimated number of long -term jobs and the % change in economic activity <br />Mobility <br />within the county that the project is expected to provide over 10 years. <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />Safety = 10% <br />Measurement of the number, severity, and density of crashes along the roadway and calculate <br />future safety benefits. <br />Freight= 25% <br />Measurement of existing truck volume and whether or not the roadway is part of a future <br />interstate highway. <br />Total = 100% <br />Draft — December 2017 <br />36 <br />