What's New

The BCATS Technical Committee scheduled for Wednesday, November 6, 2024, has been CANCELLED.

The next BCATS Technical Committee meeting is scheduled for December 4, 2024.

FY 2023-2026

TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (TIP)

AMENDMENT #12

September 2024

The twelfth amendment to the current FY 2023-2026 TIP was presented to the BCATS Committees in September, and unanimously approved by BCATS Policy Committee on September 25th. Subsequent processing thru State & Federal officials lead to final Fed-approval granted 9/30/24 for the included projects to proceed as amended. The amendment consists of actions identified in the BCATS Policy Committee memo handed out at its 9/25/24 meeting, and available here.

AMENDMENT #11 - July 2024

The eleventh amendment to the current FY 2023-2026 TIP was presented to the BCATS Committees in July, with unanimous local approval by BCATS Policy Committee on July 24th. Subsequent processing thru State & Federal officials was completed with final Fed-approval granted 8/16/24 for the included projects to proceed as amended. The amendment consisted of actions identified in the BCATS Technical Committee memo here.

One item in Amendment #11 was to advertise the Statewide deployment of National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funds for electric vehicle charging station construction, as determined by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) analysis and funding goals, and as listed in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). For more information on the overall NEVI project, found within the STIP, please visit State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) (michigan.gov).

Links to details of previous amendments to

the FY23-26 TIP can be found here on the Transportation Planning page of the Activities tab.

BCATS is pleased to make available the following report, which can be viewed at the link below:

FY 2023 Annual Listing of Obligated Projects

FY 2023-2026

TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (TIP)

Complete TIP Document Available HERE

FY23-26 TIP Project List from document with Maps

The FY 2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for the BCATS area was unanimously approved by both BCATS' Technical and Policy Committees on May 11th and May 25th respectively. The full document was transmitted July 1st to MDOT for State review and was forwarded to Federal officials for final review and approval, granted 9/19/22. The new TIP will go into effect on October 1, 2022, the first day of FY23. The list of projects selected for the FY23-26 TIP was also transmitted July 1st to MDOT through JobNet, the State's online database program for managing transportation improvement projects, and is also now Fed-approved for the selected projects, particularly those planned for FY23 implementation, to proceed after October 1st. The establishment of the new TIP for FY23-26 with FY24-26 projects added to FY23 projects carried over from the previous TIP is considered Amendment #1 to the FY23-26 TIP.

The TRANSPORTATION CONFORMITY DETERMINATION REPORT associated with the BCATS FY 2023-2026 TIP is available to view below:

Transportation Conformity Determination Report for the 1997 Ozone NAAQS - Kalamazoo - Battle Creek Limited Orphan Maintenance Area (Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren Counties) - April 2022

Questions about the Report can be directed to BCATS at bcats@bcatsmpo.org.

BCATS 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan

Approved by the BCATS Policy Committee on February 23, 2022.

Full Document

Executive Summary

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Direct questions and/or comments to:

BCATS, 601 Avenue A, Springfield, MI 49037

tel. 269-963-1158

e-mail bcats@bcatsmpo.org.

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This page last updated on 11/1/2024.