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MPO staff propose TIP evaluation changes: more weight for safety and equity, lower cost weighting

Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) · November 20, 2023
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Cape Cod Commission staff previewed draft revisions to the TIP evaluation criteria that increase emphasis on a safe-systems approach and equity/environmental-justice factors, reduce the cost weighting from 15 to 5 points, and incorporate recent regional climate and low-lying roads analyses.

Cape Cod Commission staff presented draft revisions to the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) evaluation criteria that would shift scoring to prioritize safety and equity, incorporate climate and low-lying roads analysis, and downweight project cost.

Colleen Medeiros, Transportation Program Manager for the Cape Cod Commission, said the revised criteria would formally add a safe-systems approach under safety objectives and introduce an equity/environmental-justice factor…

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