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The STIP includes:
- Federal highway funding – including federal highway funding shifted to transit.
- The portion of the State Highway Fund put toward capital projects – including the 1% for bicycle and pedestrian projects and the new Safe Routes to School program.
The STIP does NOT include:
- Agency operations
- Maintenance
- Local State Highway Fund apportionments
- State transit funding, including the Special Transportation Fund and the Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund
- Connect Oregon
The Statewide Transportation Improvement Program prioritizes and sets budgets for transportation projects in Oregon.
The STIP spells out how projects are scheduled and funded, and includes all projects within the state system as well as many city and county projects. The STIP identifies two main types of transportation investments:
- Fix-it projects preserve and keep our system safe. Fix-it projects make up the majority of the STIP budget because ODOT has made it a priority to preserve our existing transportation investments while continuing to improve safety for all users.
- Enhance projects expand and upgrade our transportation system. Enhance projects are a smaller slice of the STIP budget, but can include a wide range of investments such as highway interchanges, passing lanes, and non-automobile infrastructure such as bike paths.
We are currently looking to the public for feedback on how to prioritize spending during the 2021-2024 STIP cycle.
The Oregon Transportation Commission began work on the next STIP in July 2017. The next STIP will provide funds for 2021-2024 and ODOT expects to complete the STIP process in 2020.
We want everyone to have a say in which transportation investments will enhance our state system. Although ODOT updates the STIP every two to three years, there are opportunities for you to provide ideas and comments at key decision points, but a great time to provide input is now.
Investment Areas
The OTC has created six funding categories in the 2021-2024 STIP:
- Fix-It programs fund projects that fix or preserve the state’s transportation system, including bridges, pavement, culverts, traffic signals, and others. ODOT uses data about the conditions of assets to choose the highest priority projects. In recent STIPs the Commission has allocated most funding to Fix-It programs.
- Enhance programs fund projects that enhance or expand the transportation system. Area Commissions on Transportation recommend high-priority investments from state and local transportation plans in many of the Enhance programs.
- Safety programs reduce deaths and injuries on Oregon’s roads. This includes the All Roads Transportation Safety program, which selects projects through a data-driven process to ensure resources have maximum impact on improving the safety of Oregon’s state highways and local roads.
- Non-highway programs fund bicycle, pedestrian, public transportation, and transportation option programs. This includes both Enhance AND Fix-It components. Area Commissions on Transportation often help recommend these projects to the Commission.
- Local government programs direct funding to local governments so they can fund priority projects.
- Other functions include workforce development, planning and data collection, and administrative programs funded using federal resources.
Use the survey button below to tell us which of these programs are the most important to you.
Scenario 1
This funding distribution is based on the 2018-2021 STIP allocations for Enhance, and the required amounts for Safety, Non-highway and Local programs under federal law and state law, particularly HB 2017, the transportation funding legislation passed this year by the Oregon Legislature. Federal funding for Fix-it and Enhance Programs will vary, depending on which funding scenario is selected. (See next page.)
The scenarios differ on whether they put more emphasis on maintaining existing roads or improving roads to handle more traffic.
Under Scenario 1, more money would go into widening and improving roads than maintaining the roads we already have. This means that ODOT will be able to pave and repair fewer miles of road and fix fewer bridges, but will be able to do more to address congestion. Under Scenarios 2 and 3, more money goes into maintaining roads, but that means less money to address congestion issues. Funding allocations for non-highway, safety, and local programs are the same for each scenario because they are set by law and other agreements.
- Scenario 1 provides $124 million to Enhance Highway programs. The amount remaining after the required allocations to safety, local, and non-highway programs will be added to Fix-It programs. Including HB 2017 projects, this means that more money will be put into Enhance Highway programs than Fix-It programs.
- Scenario 2 would provide the same amount of federal highway funding for Fix-It programs as the Commission allocated in the 2018-2021 STIP, leaving a small amount for discretionary Enhance Highway programs. In this scenario, Fix-It recieves more funding than Enhance Highway.
- Scenario 3 maximizes the Fix-It program by eliminating the discretionary portion of the Enhance Highway program. In this scenario, significant investments would be made in Enhance projects named in HB 2017, but the Area Commissions on Transportation and ODOT would have no additional discretionary funding for Enhance Highway projects.
Use the survey button below to tell us which scenario you prefer.
Fix-it and Enhance Discretionary Funding Scenarios
The three scenarios differ by how much of federal funding they put into Fix-It versus Enhance.
STIP Steps
- Program allocation: WE ARE HERE Your feedback will help the Oregon Transportation Commission decide how to distribute funding among programs such as system enhancements, preservation, safety, non-highway, and local roads. This work will be done by the end of 2017.
- Project selection: The Commission will review the considerations that guide project selection. ODOT will use data in management systems and advisory committees to create preliminary project lists, estimate costs and schedules, then narrow projects to a final recommended list to include in the draft STIP. Throughout the project selection phase, ODOT will be collecting comments from the public and stakeholders.
- Public review and approval: The Commission will put the draft STIP out for a formal public comment period. After taking public comment, the Commission will adopt a revised STIP and forward it for review and approval by the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration.
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