Central Midlands Council of Governments, Metropolitan Transportation Plan Project Prioritization

In 2021, High Street completed an effort linking CMCOG’s long-range plan to its project selection for highway projects. Through this effort, High Street developed a prioritization tool that automates the project evaluation scoring process to develop CMCOG’s Staged Improvement Program. To achieve this, fiscally constrained projects were overlaid with collected performance data and forecasts. Project ratings were determined for each identified data-driven criterion. The criteria were established to achieve CMCOG’s strategic priorities and improve alignment with SCDOT plans. The criteria included considerations for project impact on infrastructure condition, safety risk reduction, mobility improvements, emissions reductions, transit impacts, and economic benefits. Criteria were diversified to be representative of geographic regions within the CMCOG planning area.