Answer to Question #275232 in Civil and Environmental Engineering for Robot

Question

Define these four acronyms and explain how they affect the transportation planning process: MPO, CLRP, TIP, and STIP. Describe the composition of one of them.

Answer 1

A Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is the policy board of a firm established and designated to carry out the role of the metropolitan transportation planning process.

The Financially Constrained Long-Range Transportation Plan (CLRP), describes and identifies all regionally important transportation programs and projects that are planned in the Washington metropolitan area. 

The Statewide Intermodal Package (STIP) is a multi-year, staged transportation project, reliable with the statewide transportation and metropolitan planning processes. 

A Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is a capital improvement program established cooperatively by state and local transportation entities. For instance, the components of a TIP include a list of multi-modal transportation projects such as transit, highway, and bicycle.