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10 C H A P T E R 2 2.1 The In uence of Funding, Policy, and Regulations Federal, state, and local funding arrangements, policies, and regulations structure transit investment decision-making, including the roles and prioritization processes of transit agencies, MPOs, and state DOTs. Taking stock of this context, while also recognizing what may be unique to individual regions and states, is an important rst step to establishing and improving transit prioritization processes.
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Understanding Your Situation 11 to FHWA funds that are used to advance transit investments such as the Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (STBGP) and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ)
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12 Prioritization of Public Transportation Investments: A Guide for Decision-Makers Beyond the eligibility requirements associated with transit funding programs, the MAP-21 and FAST Acts also include major transportation performance management requirements. The final Transit Asset Management (TAM)
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Understanding Your Situation 13 toward highways. Increasingly, agencies look to de ne objectives and measures that facilitate direct comparisons between projects with dierent modes, within a single program.
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14 Prioritization of Public Transportation Investments: A Guide for Decision-Makers 2.3 Impacts of the Decision-Making Context e decision-making context also inuences the relative emphasis of dierent goals and the resources involved in setting investment priorities. For any transportation agency with inuence over transit prioritization, it is important to consider factors such as the decisions the prioritization process should inform, the time frame of the analysis, and the communities and other government agencies involved.
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Understanding Your Situation 15 e NCDOT SPOT process, for example, includes speci c mechanisms for scoring local input across many local jurisdictions, including MPOs and regional planning organizations. In regional multimodal frameworks, transit agencies work with MPOs, municipalities, and other transit agencies to coordinate priorities and the programming of projects.
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