Project Selection. Project selection is the procedure followed by MPOs, States, and public transportation operators to advance projects from the first 4 years of an approved TIP and/or STIP to implementation. ARC maintains a six-year TIP for the Atlanta MPA. The RTP is the official multimodal transportation plan addressing no less than a 20-year planning horizon that the MPO develops, adopts, and updates through the metropolitan transportation planning process. The financially constrained, staged, multi-year intermodal program of transportation projects covering a metropolitan planning area that is consistent with the RTP. The MPO, in cooperation with the State(s) and any affected public transportation operator(s), shall develop a TIP for the metropolitan planning area. The TIP shall reflect the investment priorities established in the current metropolitan transportation plan and shall cover a period of no less than 4 years, be updated at least every 4 years, and be approved by the MPO and the Governor (or his/her designee per state law). For the Atlanta TIP, the Governor’s approval was delegated to the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority in June 2000 by an Executive Order of the Governor. The TIP must then be incorporated directly or by reference into the State TIP. The document developed and adopted by the MPO that forms a statement of work identifying the planning priorities and activities to be carried out within a metropolitan planning area. The UPWP includes a description of the planning work and resulting products, who will perform the work, time frames for completing the work, the cost of the work, and the source(s) of funds.
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