| Federal
transportation statutes require that the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission (MTC), in partnership with state and local agencies, develop and
periodically update a long-range Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), and a
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) which implements the RTP by
programming federal funds to transportation projects contained in the
RTP. In order to effectively execute
these planning and programming responsibilities, MTC requires that each
transit operator in its region which receives federal funding through the
TIP, prepare, adopt, and submit to MTC a Short Range Transit Plan (SRTP). |