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Pennsylvania Statewide Transportation
Improvement Program Guiding Principles
Below are the state’s guiding principles for the new planning and programming process.
Policy:
- State, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and local development districts (LDDs) long range plans, covering 20 years, are the "gate keepers" for the programming process.
- Commonwealth will develop a policy/corridor specific long range plan.
- All parties will work toward developing staged long range plans.
- The program will include all modes of transportation (highway, transit and intermodal projects at this time; aviation, rail, freight, etc in the future)
Procedures:
- Program update guidance will be developed and issued jointly.
- General and procedural program update guidance will be issued first, followed by financial guidance which will include transportation funds from all sources.
- Governor/Secretary, in junction with the State Transportation Commission, will resolve issues and priorities on a statewide basis.
- LDDs will become rural planning organizations (RPOs) with responsibilities consistent with MPOs for program development.
Input and Involvement:
- Public involvement must be viewed as a series of meaningful opportunities to improve and strengthen the planning and programming process and its end products; coordination and integration of local, county, regional and state public involvement efforts must occur.
- MPOs/LDDs will be responsible for program update public involvement, with the State Transportation Commission as a participant; State Transportation Commission will evaluate its public hearing practices.
- Department will work with the independent counties to encourage them to become part of an existing metropolitan or rural planning and programming process.
Program Development and Monitoring:
- Programming products (project listings) will be standardized.
- Programming process will be automated/computerized.
- Real time project database information will be shared with all partners through the Multimodal Project Management System.
- Ongoing program monitoring will be implemented.
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