• ♦Manual Notice 2001-1
• ►1. Programming and Scheduling Overview
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Process and Objectives
  • ►2. Manual Organization
    • ♦Overview
• ►2. Funding Considerations
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Allocation Categories
  • ►2. Federal-Aid Highway Programs
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Frequently Used Funding Terms
    • ♦TEA-21 Programs
    • ♦Other Federally Funded Projects
  • ►3. State-Funded Highway Programs
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦State Funding Areas
  • ►4. Cash Forecasting
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Funding Predictions
    • ♦Financial Planning Group
  • ►5. Fund Apportionment and Allocation
    • ♦Program Levels
• ►3. Project Selection
  • ►1. Overview
    • ♦Summary
  • ►2. Project Source and Program Type
    • ♦Source of Projects
    • ♦Types of Programs
    • ♦Project-Specific Programs
    • ♦Bank Balance Allocation Programs
  • ►3. Project Responsibility and Authorization
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Responsibility/Authority for Project Selection
    • ♦Selection Criteria for Highway Projects
    • ♦Project Development Authorization
    • ♦Feasibility Studies
    • ♦Long Range Project Authorization
    • ♦Priority 2 Authorization
    • ♦Priority 1 Authorization
    • ♦Public Hearing on Project Selection Process
• ►4. Elements of the Unified Transportation Program
  • ►1. UTP Overview
    • ♦Description of the UTP
    • ♦Function of the UTP
    • ♦UTP Categories
    • ♦Modifications to the UTP during the Fiscal Year
    • ♦Availability of the UTP
  • ►2. UTP Components
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Highway Projects
    • ♦Aviation Projects
    • ♦Public Transportation Projects
  • ►3. UTP Format
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Project-Specific Program Approval
    • ♦Bank Balance Allocation Program Approval
• ►5. UTP Categories
  • ►1. Category 1 - High-Priority Interstate Corridors
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►2. Category 2 - Interstate Maintenance
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to Districts
    • ♦Policy
  • ►3. Category 3A - National Highway System: Mobility
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►4. Category 3B - Texas Trunk System
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►5. Category 3C - NHS: Rehabilitation
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to Districts
    • ♦Policy
  • ►6. Category 3D - NHS: Traffic Management Systems
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►7. Category 3E - NHS: Miscellaneous
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►8. Category 4A - Surface Transportation Program: Safety
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►9. Category 4B - STP: Transportation Enhancements
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►10. Category 4C - STP: Metropolitan Mobility/Rehabilitation
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to Districts
    • ♦Policy
  • ►11. Category 4D - STP: Urban Mobility/Rehabilitation
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to Districts
    • ♦Policy
  • ►12. Category 4E - STP: Rural Mobility/Rehabilitation
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to Districts
    • ♦Policy
  • ►13. Category 4F - STP: Rehabilitation in Urban and Rural Areas
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to Districts
    • ♦Policy
  • ►14. Category 4G - STP: Railroad Grade Separations
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►15. Category 5 - Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to District
    • ♦Policy
  • ►16. Category 6A & 6B - Bridge Replacement/Rehabilitation: On State System Bridges and Off State System Bridges
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►17. Category 7 - State Preventive Maintenance
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to Districts
    • ♦Policy
  • ►18. Category 8A - Rehabilitation of Texas Farm to Market Roads
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to District
    • ♦Policy
  • ►19. Category 8B - Texas Farm to Market Roads System Expansion
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►20. Category 9 - State Park Roads
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►21. Category 10A - Traffic Control Devices
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to District
    • ♦Policy
  • ►22. Category 10B - Rehabilitation of Traffic Management Systems
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to District
    • ♦Policy
  • ►23. Category 11 - State District Discretionary
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to District
    • ♦Policy
  • ►24. Category 12 - Strategic Priority
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►25. Category 13A - State Funded Mobility
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►26. Category 13B - Hurricane Evacuation Routes
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►27. Category 13C - NAFTA Discretionary/Border Trade Transportation Projects
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►28. Category 13D - Urban Streets
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to MPOs
    • ♦Policy
  • ►29. Category 14 - State Rehabilitation
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to District
    • ♦Policy
  • ►30. Category 15 - Congressional High Priority Projects
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selections
    • ♦Policy
  • ►31. Category 16 - Miscellaneous
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Allocation to District
    • ♦Policy
  • ►32. Category 17 - State Principal Arterial Street System
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
  • ►33. Category 18 - Candidate Turnpike Projects
    • ♦Description
    • ♦Restrictions
    • ♦Project Selection
    • ♦Policy
• ►6. Development and Implementation of the Unified Transportation Program
  • ►1. UTP Development
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Section Contents
    • ♦UTP Development Process
    • ♦TPP Recommends Category Programming Levels to Financial Planning Group (FPG) (Step 2.1)
    • ♦FPG Proposes Category Programming Levels to Executive Director (Step 2.2)
    • ♦The Traffic Analysis Section of TPP Provides Traffic Data for All Categories 3A, 3B, and 8B to the Programming and Scheduling Section of TPP (See Chapter 5, UTP Categories, (Step 1.1)
    • ♦TPP Enters Traffic Data into DCIS (Step 1.2)
    • ♦TPP Ranks Projects for Information and Coordination (Step 1.3)
    • ♦Executive Director/Commission Approve Programming Levels (Step 2.3)
    • ♦Commission Holds Public Hearing on Project Selection Process (Step 3.1)
    • ♦MPOs and Districts Coordinate on Project Rankings in Project-Specific Categories (Step 1.5)
    • ♦Tentative Selections Are Made in Categories 1, 3D, 3E, 4G, 6A, 6B, 13A, and 17 (Step 1.4)
    • ♦TPP Calculates Allocation Programs (Step 2.4)
    • ♦Commission Adopts Project Selection Process Changes (Step 3.2)
    • ♦TPP Re-ranks Projects and Returns Tentative Listing of New Priority 1 and Priority 2 Selections to Districts (Step 1.6)
    • ♦Commission Approves Allocation Programs (Step 2.5)
    • ♦TPP and Districts Conduct Trade Fair and Category 13B Project Selection (Step 2.6)
    • ♦TPP Prepares Draft FY (X) UTP (Step 1.7)
    • ♦Executive Director Reviews Draft FY (X) UTP (Step 1.8)
    • ♦Commission Processing Time (Step 1.9)
  • ►2. Role of the Design and Construction Information System in the UTP
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Description of DCIS
    • ♦Functions of DCIS
    • ♦Role of TPP Project Coordinators
  • ►3. UTP Implementation
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Section Contents
    • ♦Development of Metropolitan and Rural Transportation Plans
    • ♦Development of Transportation Improvement Programs
    • ♦Guidance for Project Development
    • ♦Letting Management�

Transportation Programming & Scheduling Manual

June 2001

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