The Strategic Transportation Investments legislation organized transportation funding into three categories: Statewide Mobility, Regional Impact, and Division Needs. Statewide Mobility includes highway projects mostly on Interstates and the National Highway System (e.g. I-40, US 15/501, NC 147), commercial service airports (e.g. RDU), and major freight rail corridors (e.g. the NC Railroad).
Regional Impact includes Statewide Mobility projects and adds highway projects on other NC and US routes (e.g. NC 54, US 501), public bus and rail transit that crosses county lines (e.g. Durham-Orange light rail, Triangle Transit bus). Division Needs includes Statewide Mobility, Regional Impact, and adds other state roads (e.g. Fayetteville Road), federally funded municipal roads (e.g. portions of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway), other public transit (e.g. DATA, CHT), and bicycle and pedestrian projects
Forty percent of the funding is allocated to the Statewide Mobility category for competition statewide based fully on a quantitative analysis. Thirty percent of the funding is allocated to the Regional Impact category. Regional Impact projects compete based on a quantitative analysis and local input from MPOs, Rural Planning Organizations, and NCDOT Highway Division Engineers. Thirty percent of the funding is allocated to the Division Needs category. Division Needs projects compete based on a quantitative analysis and local input from MPOs, Rural Planning Organizations, and NCDOT Highway Division Engineers.
On April 14, 2016, NCDOT SPOT released the raw scores for all projects evaluated in P4.0. The raw scores for all three funding categories and all transportation modes are included as an attachment for this agenda item. Local Input Point Assignment for the Regional Impact category projects must be assigned and submitted to NCDOT by July 29, 2016. Local Input Point Assignment for the Division Needs category projects must be assigned and submitted to NCDOT by October 2016.
In order to develop the MPO’s Local Input Point assignment for Regional Impact Category projects and Division Needs Category projects, DCHC MPO staff, the Technical Committee (TC), and the Technical Subcommittee will apply the Local Ranking Methodology that was approved by the DCHC MPO Board on April 13, 2016. The full Methodology is available using another tab on this website. The Methodology considers the following:
- Is the project in the adopted MTP?
- Is the project in an adopted regional or local plan?
- Has a feasibility study been started or completed on the project?
- Has any preliminary engineering been started or completed on the project?
- Is the cost justified by the project limits?
- Does the total cost to NCDOT exceed the amount of funding available for the respective funding tier?
The Methodology states for the MPO’s 1,800 Regional Impact Category Local Input Points, the DCHC MPO will assign points among modes and project types according to the distribution below. The distribution below has been structured to reflect the funding goals of the MPO’s adopted MTP and the number of eligible Regional Impact Category projects in each mode.
- 800 points to Highway
- 300 points to Public Transit
- 700 points could be assigned to any mode and project type
For the MPO’s 1,800 Division Local Input Points, the DCHC MPO will assign points among modes and project types according to the distribution below. The distribution below has been structured to reflect the funding goals of the MPO’s adopted MTP and the number of eligible Division category projects in each mode.
- 300 points to Highway
- 500 points to Public Transit
- 200 points to Bicycle and Pedestrian
- 800 points could be assigned to any mode and project type
Local Input Points will be assigned in priority order based on the six factors listed below with the first factor being the highest priority and the last factor being a lower priority.
- The likelihood of receiving funding through STI considering the amount of funding available within each Division or Region, historical funding levels for the mode, and the normalization limitations that NCDOT adopted.
- The priorities of the current MTP including the adopted distribution of the funding between modes and the planning horizon year of projects.
- The effect that receiving funding for a project may have on the likelihood of other projects being funded in the Division or Region considering the limitations set by the STI legislation.
- If the project is located within an area of overlapping Environmental Justice Communities of Concern identified in the MPO's 2014 Environmental Justice Report.
- Public input received during public input sessions.
- Geographic and jurisdictional balance.
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