Community-Based Transportation Planning Program

A community planning meeting with a diverse group of people gathered around a table looking at plans.

Community-Based Transportation Planning Program

The community-based transportation planning set aside is a Denver Regional Council of Governments led technical assistance program in the 2024-2027 Transportation Improvement Program. The program’s goal is to support member jurisdictions efforts addressing mobility challenges for historically marginalized communities in the organization’s region.

The program funds studies or planning efforts identifying specific mobility needs of historically marginalized communities, develop community-informed solutions and map out a path to fund and implement recommendations. Collaboration is central in this planning effort, and the organization seeks to work with municipal and county governments, community-based organizations and community members throughout the development of the community-based plans.

Program Goals

Expand access opportunities for residents of all ages, incomes, and abilities.
Support member governments’ efforts to improve mobility within their communities.
Address the needs of disproportionately impacted and marginalized communities in the region.
Center voices of marginalized communities in transportation planning both in their community and around the region.
Develop innovative engagement methods to center marginalized voices, including partnering with respected community-based organizations.

2024 – 2025 set-aside projects

DRCOG staff conducted a call for letters of interest to select projects for the first half of the 2024-2027 community-based transportation planning set-aside at the end of 2023. The DRCOG Board approved five projects in March 2024, with an estimated total budget of $1.35 million. DRCOG will lead each planning effort in collaboration with local partners.

The selected projects and their anticipated start dates are:

Montbello Loop and 303 Artway Implementation Plan- anticipated fall 2024.
Brighton Core City Circulation Plan - anticipated fall 2024.
92nd Avenue Corridor Study from Federal to Pecos- anticipated fall or winter 2024.
Pecos Corridor Study from West 62nd Avenue to West 84th Avenue - anticipated early 2025.
Commerce City Microtransit Study- anticipated early 2025.