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ORANGE COUNTY <br />ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD (OUTBoard) <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date:May 20, 2015 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No.5.a. <br />SUBJECT: Orange County MPO and RPO Transportation Project Priority Lists <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N)No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1.BGMPO Priority Project Descriptions <br />and SPOT 3.0 Scores <br />2.BGMPO Project List Map <br />3.TARPO Priority Project Descriptions <br />and SPOT 3.0 Scores <br />4.TARPO Project List Map <br />5.DCHC MPO Priority Project <br />Descriptions and SPOT 3.0 Scores <br />6.DCHC MPO Project List Map <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Bret Martin, Transportation Planner, <br /> 245-2582 <br /> Tom Altieri, Comprehensive <br /> Planning Supervisor, 245-2579 <br /> Abigaile Pittman, Transportation/Land <br /> Use Planner, 245-2567 <br />PURPOSE: To consider and recommend to the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) <br />transportation projects for the Burlington-Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization (BGMPO), <br />Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) MPO, and the Triangle Rural Planning Organization (TARPO) <br />to be submitted for consideration of inclusion in the 2018-2027 Statewide Transportation <br />Improvement Program (STIP). <br />BACKGROUND:Biennially, the North Carolina Board of Transportation (BOT) adopts a multi-year <br />Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) containing funding and scheduling <br />information for transportation projects throughout the state including those for highways, aviation <br />facilities, public transportation, ferry travel, freight rail, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The STIP <br />is the major tool the State uses for the implementation of locally and regionally adopted transportation <br />plans from which projects are conceived for programming consideration. In 2013 and 2014, the <br />State, in conjunction with the metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and rural planning <br />organizations (RPOs) throughout the state, completed the prioritization process for the 2016-2025 <br />STIP, which is scheduled to be finalized and adopted by the North Carolina Board of Transportation <br />in July 2015. <br />The State is once again beginning the process of developing the 2018-2027 STIP, which is scheduled <br />to be finalized and adopted in July 2017, and will be requesting local input for transportation project <br />priorities to be submitted through each local government’s respective MPO or RPO. Implicit in this <br />process is the application of the Strategic Mobility Formula (SMF) developed as part of the Strategic <br />Transportation Investments (STI) legislation adopted in 2013 as well as an updated scoring <br />methodology that institutes some changes to the inputs and weights used to rank projects for <br />consideration and inclusion in the STIP that differ from the inputs and weights used for the <br />development of the 2016-2025 STIP.Although the development of this slightly modified methodology <br /> <br /> <br />