Overview

Federal Highway Administration’s Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) program is flexible for a wide range of transportation infrastructure, services, and planning project types. TRPC’s 2022 Call for Projects includes six Regional Funding Priorities.

Project Priorities

Active Transportation

1. Projects that support active transportation such as walking and bicycling.

Efficiency

1. Projects that support meeting adopted vehicle level of service standards.
2. Projects that help support Transportation Demand Management (TDM) goals and decrease annual per capita vehicle miles traveled in the Thurston Region.

Maintenance

1. Projects that support a pavement “Best First” approach recognizing that regular maintenance is much more cost effective than allowing a roadway to deteriorate and then rebuilding it. No specific target set.
2. Projects that support Transit Asset Management targets.
3. Projects that keep bridges in a state of good repair. No specific target set.
4. Projects that keep other portions of the transportation system in a state of good repair. No specific target set.

Planning

1. Projects that develop project lists, support regional coordination, or provide data to inform planning.

Resiliency

1. Projects that protect the transportation system from natural and technological hazards and disruptions. 

Safety

1. Projects that help reduce the number of fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads to zero by 2030.
2. Projects that help reduce the number of non-motorist fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads (e.g., bicyclists and pedestrians) to zero by 2030.
3. Projects that help reduce transit-related fatalities, serious injuries, and safety incidents.

For details on TRPC’s funding priorities, goals, and eligibility for the project types, review TRPC’s Call for Projects Process Guidance document.