TIP Evaluation Criteria
SAFETY (30 possible points)
- Crash Severity Value: Equivalent Property Damage Only (EPDO) index
- Crash Severity Rate: Equivalent Property Damage Only (EPDO) index per vehicle miles traveled (VMT)
- Improves truck-related safety issue
- Improves bicycle safety
- Improves pedestrian safety
- Improves safety or removes an at-grade railroad crossing
SYSTEM PRESERVATION (29 possible points)
- Improves substandard roadway bridge(s)
- Improves substandard pavement
- Improves substandard traffic signal equipment
- Improves transit asset(s)
- Improves substandard sidewalk(s)
- Improves emergency response
- Improves ability to respond to extreme conditions
CAPACITY MANAGEMENT/MOBILITY (29 possible points)
- Reduces transit vehicle delay
- Improves pedestrian network and ADA accessibility
- Improves bicycle network
- Improves intermodal accommodations/connections to transit
- Improves truck movement
- Reduces vehicle congestion
CLEAN AIR/CLEAN COMMUNITIES (16 possible points)
- Reduces CO2
- Reduces other transportation-related emissions (VOC, NOx, CO)
- Addresses environmental impacts
- Is in an Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA)-certified "Green Community"
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY (12 possible points)
- Serves Title VI/non-discrimination populations
ECONOMIC VITALITY (18 possible points)
- Serves targeted development site
- Provides for development consistent with the compact growth strategies of MetroFuture
- Provides multimodal access to an activity center
- Leverages other investments (non-TIP funding)