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TE PROJECTS - PRIORITIZING CRITERIA <br />Each qualified project will be scored under five common category criteria within its TE project group: <br />urgency; impact; relationship between TE categories; and relationship to intermodal/multimodal <br />transportation; and implementation of the Development Framework. This will allow projects to be scored <br />under these criteria relatively equally across the different categories while addressing the particular <br />attributes of the project type. An explanation of each of the four common category criteria and reasons <br />for their inclusion follows: <br />1. Urgency/Significance. This criterion measures how critical or time -sensitive the problem is that is <br />being addressed by a regionally significant project. Examples might include seizing a timely <br />opportunity to preserve a scarce or endangered resource or addressing a critical need. <br />2. Impact. This criterion quantifies the benefit from the project, without specifically relating it to how <br />the larger public will benefit (that calculation will be made in part 2. of the general/integrative <br />criteria). <br />3. Relationship between Categories. This criterion is being presented under the assumption that the <br />region recognizes that there is a value in having projects that provide more than one of the eligible TE <br />activities. Examples might include the reconstruction of a bicycle/pedestrian trail leading to a historic <br />transportation structure. <br />4. Relationship to Intermodal/Multimodal Transportation System. This criterion measures how the <br />proposed project clearly and credibly relates to the surface transportation system. Surface <br />transportation is defined to include all modes of travel with the exception of aviation and military <br />transportation. Federal TE guidance states that proximity to a transportation facility alone is not <br />sufficient to establish a relationship. <br />5. Development Framework. This criterion measures how the proposed project relates to the goals for <br />land use development, resource protection and transportation described in the 2030 Regional <br />Development Framework and 2030 Transportation Policy Plan. <br />6. Maturity of Project Concept. This criterion measures the number of steps already taken in project <br />development. These steps are outlined in the checklist in Appendix K. <br />16 <br />