Short Range Planning

The HRMPO TIP is a prioritized, fiscally-constrained, list of federally funded and/or regionally significant transportation projects and improvements within the HRMPO area for the next four years. The program includes projects for all modes of surface transportation including highways and streets, public transportation and walking and bicycling. The projects that will be considered for TIP funding will come from the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) projects by priority. The TIP is updated annually and includes clearly identified funding sources.

The HRMPO works with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to approve the Highway portion of the TIP and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) to approve the Transit portion of the TIP. Each TIP is adopted only once every four years and it can be amended or modified administratively to account for changes in funding or project needs.

Current Highway and Transit TIP

The TIP includes explanatory language about the its relationship to other MPO and state planning documents and combines highway and transit programming information. The TIP is intended to be more accessible to the general reader, in addition to meeting Federal requirements. Appendices A and B include Amendments and Administrative Modifications for the Highway and Transit TIPs respectively. Appendix C contains a User’s Guide.

The FY2024-2027 TIP includes the required MAP-21 and FAST Act legislation’s Performance Based Planning and Programming documentation regarding the Safety Performance measurement targets (Appendix D), Transit Asset Management targets (Appendix E), Pavement and Bridge Condition (Appendix F), and System Performance (Appendix G). We will add additional performance measurement targets to the TIP as the CTB sets them and the HRMPO Policy Board concurs, or sets its own.

The TIP includes funding for a project from the I-81 Corridor Improvement Plan. The project will widen I-81 to three travel lanes in each direction from Exit 243 to 248. The most recent FY 21-24 TIP document was amended on May 18, 2023.

The HRMPO Policy Board approved the FY 24-27 TIP on May 18, 2023, and it will go into effect at the start of the Federal Fiscal Year 2024 on October 1, 2023. On May 16th, 2024, the HRMPO Policy Board released the TIP with two draft amendments on page 12 and page 23 which were approved on June 20th. On August 15th, the HRMPO Policy Board released and conditionally approved three new draft amendments.