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SmartMoves: Long Range Transportation Plan & Transportation Improvement Program

2023 SmartMoves Long Range Transportation Plan Documents

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The SmartMoves for a Changing Region transportation and development plan identifies the region’s priority roadway, transit and multimodal transportation improvements programmed for advancement over the next 25-30 years.

Publications and Resources

2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)

The region’s long range transportation plan is implemented with a series of shorter-term investment plans, known as Transportation Improvement Programs, or TIPs. Each TIP is a step along that 25-year investment in our region’s future. During the TIP period (2023-2026), over $5.6 billion in state, federal, and local funds will be invested to improve our region’s transportation system over the next four years.

The 2023-2026 TIP is comprised of projects and programs that serve multiple transportation modes and connections in our region.

  • Over $2.1 billion will be spent on public transit  
  • Over $1.5 billion will go toward road and bridge projects
  • During the TIP period an additional $2 billion in other federal, state and private funding for Interstates, railways and other major projects in the region

Publications and Resources

Public Transit-Human Services Coordinated Transportation Plan (CTP)

Federal transit law requires that projects selected for funding under the Enhanced Mobility for Individuals and Individuals with Disabilities Program (49 U.S.C. 5310) be “included in a locally developed, coordinated public transit-human services transportation plan.” The plan is required to be “developed and approved through a process that included participation by seniors, individuals with disabilities, representatives of public, private, and nonprofit transportation and human services providers and other members of the public” utilizing transportation services.

Our organization developed the region’s initial plan in 2008, and updated in 2011, 2015, and most recently in 2019. It is time to update this plan again and identify the transportation needs of individuals with disabilities, older adults, and individuals that qualify as having lower incomes.

This is your chance to impact how Southwestern Pennsylvanians get where they need to go. Answers from this survey will help our region experience improved accessibility and efficiency of transportation services – a mix of services such as public buses, senior shuttles, hospital vans, church vans, etc. Transportation services provide mobility to the many thousands of Southwestern Pennsylvanians who can’t, or don’t want to, drive a car.

Please take the survey: https://bit.ly/SWPA-Transit-HumanServices-STP

Transportation Technical Committee (TTC)

Our TTC deals exclusively with technical issues relating to transportation. It makes recommendations to SPC and the Policy Committee regarding the Transportation Improvement Program, transportation-related air quality plans, and transportation issues.

The Committee includes the planning directors of the ten SPC member counties, the City of Pittsburgh, and representatives of PennDOT Central Office, Pennsylvania DEP, and the PGH Regional Transit. Nonvoting members of the Committee include PennDOT District Offices, FHWA, FTA, EPA, and the Allegheny County Bureau of Air Pollution Control.

Resources

TTC Contact

Gregory Shermeto
Transportation Planner II
(412) 391-5590 x0388