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2 Orange County's Priority List for the 2011-2017 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) contains two sections: • Projects within the Metropolitan Area Boundary (MAB) of the Durham-Chapel Hill- Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) must be submitted to the MPO to be prioritized and considered for inclusion in regional Priority List for the MTIP. • Pro,~ects within the rural areas of Orange County that are outside the MAB are submitted to the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization (TARPO) to be prioritized in the regional Priority List of the RPO. Project Selection Criteria: DCHC MPO DCHC MPO requests that the local jurisdictions apply the following screening criteria during development of priority lists: • How well the projects meets adopted regional goals (the project is in the current long range transportation plan, implements community objectives, and has a broad base of local support); • How much benefit the project offers compared to the estimated cost; and ® How critical timing is for the project (the opportunity to do the project may be lost if it is not included in this TIP cycle). Projects submitted to the DCHC MPO are ranked with priority projects from other local jurisdictions according to methodology approved by the TAC. The methodology ranks projects by mode using different criteria applicable to each mode to prepare three priority lists. Bicycle and pedestrian projects are awarded points based on: • the amount of vehicular traffic, • right-of-way availability, • travel demand based on proximity to major destinations, ® local connectivity to existing bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and • regional connectivity based on regional routes recognized in the 1992 Regional Bicycle Plan. Transit projects are awarded points based on: • project timing needs, • annual ridership, and • number of connections to other transit systems. Highway projects are awarded points based on: • travel demand measured by volume to capacity ratio (V/C), • safety based on crashes per 100 million vehicle miles, • project benefits to other modes (carpool, transit, bicycle, pedestrian, intelligent transportation systems, traffic demand management). All types of projects are awarded points based on: • environmental impacts, • community impacts, • impact on low income .and minority populations, and • percentage of the total project cost that is funded in the currently funded TIP.