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The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is the five-year rolling capital plan for the 97 cities and towns in the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization's (MPO) planning area. The TIP documents all transportation projects that will receive federal funding in the region over the next five years. Projects in the TIP include those supported by Regional Target funds—the federal transportation dollars that the MPO has direct discretion over—and federally funded projects of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), the MetroWest Regional Transit Authority (MWRTA), and the Cape Ann Transportation Authority (CATA). 

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Developing the New TIP: FFYs 2026–30

MPO Evaluation Criteria:

Community Connections Program:

Bicycle Lanes Application [Scorecard (PDF)]
Bicycle Racks Application [Scorecard (PDF)]
BikeShare Expansion and Support Application [Scorecard (PDF)]
Microtransit Pilot [Scorecard (PDF)]
Wayfinding Signage Application [Scorecard (PDF)]

The Draft FFYs 2026–30 TIP

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The draft FFYs 2026–30 TIP has been released for public comment. The 30-day public review period began on April 28, 2025, and concludes at 5:00 PM on May 28, 2025. You can submit feedback on the TIP to TIP@ctps.org. All comments will be shared with the MPO board at the end of the public review period. 
 

The draft FFYs 2026–30 TIP programs approximately $10.3 billion in investments across five years for the Boston region. The MPO has prioritized 62 projects for funding through this TIP, 21 of which are new projects. The MPO Board will vote on the endorsement of the draft FFYs 2026–30 TIP at the June 5, 2025, meeting, after considering public comments received during the public review period. Once approved, it will take effect on October 1, 2025.

FFYs 2026–30 TIP (PDF) FFYs 2026–30 TIP Appendices (PDF) FFYs 2026–30 TIP (HTML) FFYs 2026–30 TIP Appendices (HTML)

FFY 2026–30 Executive Summary Translation Landing Page

The above link includes PDF and HTML versions of the Executive Summary translated for Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

The Current FFYs 2025–29 TIP

Cover page of FFYs 2025-29 TIP featuring photographs of a tree-lined dirt road across an open field in the autumn and the skyline of Boston lit in the twilight and reflected in the Charles River Basin

The FFYs 2025–29 TIP programs approximately $6.2 billion across five years for critical regional projects by the MPO, MassDOT, MBTA, MWRTA, and CATA. The Boston Region MPO has prioritized 70 projects for regional funding in this TIP, 32 of which are new projects. The FFYs 2025–29 TIP was endorsed by the Boston Region MPO Board on June 6, 2024 and went into effect on October 1, 2024.

FFYs 2025–⁠29 TIP (PDF) FFYs 2025–29 TIP Appendices (PDF) FFYs 2025–29 TIP (HTML) FFYs 2025–29 TIP Appendices (HTML)

FFY 2025–29 Executive Summary Translations

Executive Summary (PDF) Executive Summary (HTML) Resumen Ejecutivo (PDF) Resumen Ejecutivo (HTML) Sumário executivo (PDF) Sumário executivo (HTML) 执行总结 (PDF) 执行总结 (HTML) 執行總結 (PDF) 執行總結 (HTML) Rezime Egzekitif (PDF) Rezime Egzekitif (HTML) Tóm Tắt Dự Án (PDF) Tóm Tắt Dự Án (HTML)

 

Amendments and Adjustments

 

Amendment One

Amendment One programs 13 new or adjusted earmarks for federally funded projects and four scheduling and funding adjustments for MPO Target Funded projects. These adjustments include the Peabody Independence Greenway Extension, Columbus Avenue Phase 2, and Jackson Square Station Accessibility project shifted through Amendment 13 of the FFYs 2024–28 TIP. For more information, refer to the Amendment One (PDF) table.

Adjustment Two

Amendment Two programs a portion of a United States Department of Transportation FFY 2023 Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods grant award for the Allston Multimodal Project. The portion of the grant programmed through Amendment 2 is $10.3 million of an overall award of $335.3 million to address early action items associated with the Cambridge Street Bridge.  For more information, refer to the Amendment Two (PDF) table.

Amendment Three

Amendment Three programmed 20 federal discretionary grant awards for communities and transportation agencies throughout the Boston Region, including the MBTA, MWRTA, and the Boston Region MPO. The projects included in Amendment Three include awards for funding planning, design, and construction activities. For more information, refer to the Amendment Three (PDF) table.

Amendment Four

Amendment Four included changes to the FFY 2025 Statewide Highway Program to account for cost decreases on a pavement and bridge preservation project for Interstates 93 and 95 and a cost increase to resurface Route 9 in Brookline and Newton. The amendment also included changes to account for awarded and prospective discretionary grants for both the City of Boston and MBTA, along with other changes for the MBTA across all years of the Transit Program (FFY 2025 through 2029). For more information, refer to the Amendment Four (PDF) table.

Adjustment Two

Adjustment Two reflected changes to projects for the MWRTA to support the acquisition of revenue vehicles. For more information, refer to the Adjustment Two (PDF) table.

Amendment Five

Amendment Five reallocated funding between projects for the MWRTA to support the acquisition of Type D revenue vehicles. For more information, refer to the Amendment Five (PDF) table.

Amendment Six

Amendment Six programmed a $21,600,000 Congestion Relief Grant award to the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and City of Boston for expanding local public transit and the regional Bluebikes system. For more information, refer to the Amendment Six (PDF) table.

Amendment Seven

Amendment Seven programmed three Clean Heavy Duty Vehicles (CHDV) grant awards through the Environmental Protection Agency to support electric school bus acquisitions for three school districts in the Boston region. These school districts are Boston Public Schools, Hingham Public Schools, and the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District. For more information, refer to the Amendment Seven (PDF) table.

Amendment Eight

Amendment Eight programmed four Safe Streets and Roads for All grant awards for planning and demonstration activities in the Boston region. Amendment Eight also reflected a cost increase on a pavement preservation contract for Route 3 between Burlington and Tyngsborough.  For more information, refer to the Amendment Eight (PDF) table.

Amendment Nine

Amendment Nine programmed three Reconnecting Communities grant awards for the City of Boston, City of Revere, and the MBTA alongside an earmark for the Broadway at-grade crossing in Wakefield. Amendment Nine also included funding adjustments for CATA projects. For more information, refer to the Amendment Nine (PDF) table.

Amendment Ten

Amendment Ten programmed MPO Regional Target funding for nine transit projects in FFY 2025 and addressed a cost adjustment for the Stratton School Improvements project in Arlington. As a result of the TIP Readiness Days exercise for the FFYs 2026–30 TIP, MPO staff identified three projects that would be unable to advertise in FFY 2025 and would require a delay to FFY 2026. Amendment Ten utilized the unprogrammed balance resulting from those delays to fund new projects in FFY 2025 in parallel to the FFYs 2026–30 TIP development. For more information, refer to the Amendment Ten (PDF) table.

Federal Reporting

The MPO must publish a complete list of obligated projects within 90 days after the close of the FFY. Obligated projects are projects that have funds committed to them through the approval of a construction contract. The list includes the amount of money approved in the TIP, the total amount obligated, and the remaining balance for each project or program. The FFY 2024 Federal Obligation Report (PDF) lists the MassDOT, MBTA, CATA, and MWRTA projects within the MPO area that spent federal funds during FFY 2024 (October 1, 2023–September 30, 2024). Federal obligation reports from previous FFYs may be found in the TIP Archive.

TIP Archive

Older TIP documents and the lists of projects that were advertised for construction in prior years are available in the archive.

Contact

Ethan Lapointe-TIP Manager                 
857.702.3703                 
tip@ctps.org