How is the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) developed?
For the highway program, the MPO allocates available funds to projects based on the TIP criteria: condition, safety, mobility, community impacts, land use, economic development, environmental effects, the readiness of the project, policy issues, and geographic equity. For the transit program, the MPO uses criteria from the MBTA´s five-year Capital Investment Program to identify projects that help promote the MPO´s planning goals.