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Funding and Resource Sharing Examples

The examples on this page illustrate how some states and regions are sharing funding and resources. If you have an example that you'd like to share, please send an email describing what your state or region is doing to p4o@dot.gov.

Maricopa Association of Governments Uses the UPWP to Support M&O

Through the development of an initial regional ITS architecture, stakeholder agencies and jurisdictions in the Phoenix metropolitan area recognized the need for a Regional Concept of Transportation Operations. The Maricopa Association of Governments, the region's MPO, wanted to ensure that this M&O planning work took place in a timely fashion because it was central to ongoing M&O coordination activities. By including the Regional Concept of Operations project in MAG's UPWP, staff ensured financial support for this critical activity. The project was completed in 2003 and is the fist comprehensive example in the US for an urban transportation operations plan.

For more information about this example, contact Sarath Joshua: sjoshua@mag.maricopa.gov.

Salt Lake City Region Encourages Joint Funding Requests

In the Salt Lake City Region, the MPO has indicated its preference that applications for limited ITS funds come from multi-agency teams. As a result, Utah DOT, the Utah Transit Agency, and individual cities routinely submit joint applications. This has increased interagency management and operations coordination and limited the number of times that the MPO must go through the process of selecting between individual city requests.

For more information about this example, contact Chuck Chappell: cchappell@wfrc.org.

Washington DOT Policy on Funding

Washington State DOT had to address a severe disparity between transportation needs and revenues in its 20-year transportation plan. The plan prioritizes investment choices as follows:

1. Maintenance, traffic operations, and preservation activities are top priorities and are first in line for available revenues.
2. Highway safety, environmental retrofit, economic initiatives, and a Puget Sound core system of HOV lanes are high priorities and are second in line for available revenues.
3. Revenues remaining after the above priorities are addressed go to other highway mobility improvements.

Traffic operational solutions are considered as the first step in addressing a congestion problem identified in the plan. The stated goal of operational strategies is to reduce delay of both people and freight on the state's system. The plan defines operational strategies to include traveler information systems, safety enhancements, ramp metering in peak hours, service patrols and incident response teams, signal timing and HOV lanes, and improving advanced technology applications for commercial vehicles.

For more information about this example, contact Toby Rickman: Rickman@wsdot.wa.gov.