2022-2025 Transportation Improvement Program Development
FY 2022-2025 TIP Call for Projects: Regional and Subregional Share – January-September 2022
From January through September 2022, DRCOG conducted two calls for projects to program the FY2022-2025 TIP to programming anticipated funding available for FY2022 through FY2027. Both call 1 and 2 are outlined below.
If an applicant plans on submitting an application for the two additional future calls for the FY2024-2027 TIP, they must have attended one of the two available training sessions on February 10 and 16. If you intend to submit an application during any of the calls, but were not able to attend a training, please contact us. Training presentations can be found on the Data Resource page.
Additional details regarding each call include the following:
Funding Availability: $172,766,000 was available for this call. The call will consist of all available FY2022-2025 unallocated funding types, except Surface Transportation Block Grant Funding (STBG). The target for each subregion is as follows:
- Adams County Subregion: $26,675,000, Arapahoe County Subregion: $32,152,000, Boulder County Subregion: $17,138,000, Broomfield City/County Subregion: $4,215,000, Denver City/County Subregion: $41,844,000, Douglas County Subregion: $17,916,000, Jefferson County Subregion: $28,506,000, and SW Weld County Subregion: $4,319,000.
Application: The base application available for this call is the same application used for the above Regional Share call, plus any subregion-approved added questions and/or weighting adjustments. Individual applications for each subregion are available for download below.
- Adams County Subregion: application, Arapahoe County Subregion: application, Boulder County Subregion: application, Broomfield City/County Subregion: application, Denver City/County Subregion: application, Douglas County Subregion: application, Jefferson County Subregion: application, and SW Weld County Subregion: application.
Project Type Submittal Limitations: For this call, applicants must have submited projects that are consistent with reducing congestion and/or improving air quality. Notable project types that are not allowable include roadway capital projects, roadway reconstruction projects, and bridge replacement/rehabilitation projects.
Policy Guidance: The Policies for TIP Program Development was adopted by the DRCOG Board of Directors on January 19, 2022. Staff has also developed a quick guide for easy reference to the call process.
Data Resources: A TIP Data Tool and other associated data to assist sponsors in filling out applications is located on the FY2022-2025 TIP data resources webpage.
Applications Received/Public Comments: The following eligible applications received are below. DRCOG held a public comment period from July 1-20, 2022, to receive comments on the applications received. The comments received can be viewed here or on a map here.
Remaining Schedule: Throughout July and into early August, each forum individually scored, discussed, and acted to recommend a suite of projects within their assigned funding target. The DRCOG Board approved each forum's recommendation in September 2022. All projects from calls 1 and 2 were then approved to be included within current 22-25 TIP.
Following the two calls to program the current FY2022-2025 TIP, DRCOG will then open another Regional and Subregional call for projects (anticipated to begin in September 2022) to develop and program the new FY2024-2027 TIP.
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Background: DRCOG is anticipated to receive state MMOF funds from FY22-FY31. The allocation from CDOT is for the entire DRCOG boundary, not just the MPO. Therefore as done for the previous TIP, DRCOG will conduct a Call for Projects for communities within DRCOG, but outside the MPO boundary for FY22-27.
Funding Availability: As of the call opening, DRCOG anticipates $1,588,000 in state MMOF funds to be available to program to projects in FY23-27. The total available for this call represents 1% of the MMOF funds DRCOG has available to program, which is the same percentage the non-MPO areas of DRCOG equal in total population, employment, and estimated VMT, as to DRCOG as a whole.
Eligibility Sponsors and Match Requirements: The following counties/municipal governments and regional agencies are eligible. The local match minimums are also included:
- Adams County (east of Kiowa Creek) (50% min. match)
- Bennett (east of Kiowa Creek) (50% min. match)
- Arapahoe County (east of Kiowa Creek) (50% min. match)
- Bennett (east of Kiowa Creek) (50% min. match), Deer Trail (no match required)
- Clear Creek County (25% min. match)
- Empire (no match required), Georgetown (25% min. match), Idaho Springs (no match required), Silver Plume (25% min. match)
- Gilpin County (50% min. match)
- Black Hawk (no match required), Central City (25% min. match)
- RAQC (Adams and Arapahoe Counties only, east of Kiowa Creek) (50% min. match)
- CDOT (50% min. match)
Eligible Project Types: The following project types are eligible for this call:
- Capital or operating costs for fixed route and on‑demand transit, Transportation Demand Management programs, Multimodal mobility projects enabled by new technology, Multimodal transportation studies, Bicycle or pedestrian projects, Modeling tools, and Greenhouse gas mitigation projects that decrease VMT or increase multimodal travel.
Required TIP Training: Project sponsors anticipating submitting an application(s) were required to attend a mandatory TIP submittal training workshop OR have attended a previous TIP training workshop back in February 2022. The training for this call was held virtually on May 11, 2022. The materials presented can be found on the data resources page.
Application: The application used for this call is based off the Board-approved application for the other ongoing calls that DRCOG is conducting.
Policy Guidance: The Policies for TIP Program Development was adopted by the DRCOG Board of Directors on January 19, 2022. Staff has also developed a quick guide for easy reference.
Data Resources: A TIP Data Tool and other associated data to assist sponsors in filling out applications is located on the FY2022-2025 TIP data resources webpage.
Applications Received/Public Comments: One application was received: Deer Trail Multimodal Path: US-40 from Pine St. to Burton Ave. The DRCOG Board approved funding for this project in September 2022.
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Regional Share Call for Projects (CALL 1) – January 24, 2022 to March 18, 2022 at 3pm (call announcement) - COMPLETED
Funding Availability: DRCOG programmed $40.3 million to this call. The call consisted of all available FY2022-2025 unallocated funding types, except Surface Transportation Block Grant Funding (STBG).
Application: The Air Quality/Multimodal application used for this call is available here.
Project Type Submittal Limitations: For this call, applicants submited projects that were consistent with reducing congestion and/or improving air quality. Notable project types that were not allowable include roadway capital projects, roadway reconstruction projects, and bridge replacement/rehabilitation projects.
Policy Guidance: The Policies for TIP Program Development was adopted by the DRCOG Board of Directors on January 19, 2022.
Data Resources: A TIP Data Tool and other associated data to assist sponsors in filling out applications is located from the FY2022-2025 TIP data resources webpage.
Applications Received/Public Comments: The following eligible applications received are below. Public comment was accepted from March 23 to April 6, 2022. A summary of the comments received can be found here or on a map here.
Project Review, Scoring, and Recommentation: Beginning March 21, a dozen DRCOG staff scored the submittals. Those submittals, the weighted average scores, and the public comments received were turned over to a Project Review Panel who met twice the week of April 11 to make a funding recommendation to the DRCOG committees and Board. On May 18, the DRCOG Board approved projects from call #1. The Regional Share project recommendations will be combined with the Subregional Share project recommendations in September and then all projects will be amended into the 2022-2025 TIP.
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FY2022 Unallocated Funding - Wait List Project Selection Process (March 2022)
Due to the discovery of $87,644,000 in additional and unallocated FY22 funding, DRCOG staff began the process to select projects off the adopted wait list in the fall 2021. After discussions with project sponsors, the DRCOG Board adopted a slate of 9 projects totaling $18,300,000 in March 2022. The remaining unallocated funds will roll over to the Calls for Projects being conducted in 2022/2023. The projects receiving DRCOG allocations have been captured as part of the March 2022 Administrative Modifications.
FY2022-2025 TIP Supplemental Wait List Call for Projects (Spring to Fall 2021)
This Call for Projects took place throughout 2021 to add additional projects to the wait lists. The original announcement is located here. There was no funding available for this call. The purpose for the call was to add an appropriate number of projects to the existing wait lists, so that if additional funding became available, projects could be funded. Project submittals include:
Regional Share: Boulder County: SH-119 and 63rd Ave Transit Bypass Lanes, Castle Pines: I-25 and Happy Canyon Interchange: Preconstruction Activities, Lone Tree: I-25 and Lincoln Ave Interchange: Final Design
Subregional Share (note: some subregions were ineligible to submit for this call)
Adams County Subregion: Thornton: 88th Ave Corridor Study
Jefferson County Subregion: Evergreen: Evergreen Lake Trail: Phase 2, Golden: West Colfax Complete Streets: Phase 2, Lakewood: Wadsworth & Morrison SB Accel Lane Operational Improvements
SW Weld County Subregion: Mead: 3rd & Welker Intersection Operational Improvements