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Missouri has more transportation needs than money to address them. MoDOT selects the most critical transportation projects and focuses on the state’s highest-priority transportation needs. MoDOT effectively uses planning and decision-making to ensure Missouri’s limited transportation dollars are responsibly spent. MoDOT’s planning process is more open than ever before. Even though the overall steps in the planning process have not changed, the [[121.1 Public Involvement and Decision-Making|opportunities for public involvement]] at the local level have grown. The process now identifies where individual decisions are made and how local officials and citizens can most easily affect these decisions.
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Missouri has more transportation needs than money to address them. MoDOT works with planning partners to select the most critical transportation projects and focuses on the state’s highest-priority transportation needs. MoDOT effectively uses planning and decision-making to ensure Missouri’s limited transportation dollars are responsibly spent. MoDOT’s planning process is more open than ever before. Even though the overall steps in the planning process have not changed, the [[121.1 Public Involvement and Decision-Making|opportunities for public involvement]] at the local level have grown. The process now identifies where individual decisions are made and how local officials and citizens can most easily affect these decisions.
  
Once a need has been adequately scoped and a project is developed to address it, there must be a way to determine how that project compares to other projects. Statewide consistency and regional representation is also very important.  MoDOT has developed a more objective process in which the public and local officials can understand how decisions are made, participate in [[121.2 The Planning Process|the planning process]] and influence decision-making.
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Once a need has been adequately scoped and a project is developed to address it, there must be a way to determine how that project compares to other projects. Statewide consistency and regional representation are both very important to the prioritization process.  
  
These decisions are complex and are based on values and environmental factors that change frequently. The planning framework relies on the right people being involved in making decisions and to adjust to changing factors and recognize that transportation planning decisions involve both objective and subjective criteria. Local officials, with input from their constituents, can also determine what’s appropriate for their communities.  
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The planning framework relies on the right people being involved in making decisions and recognizes that transportation planning decisions can involve both objective and subjective criteria. Local officials, with input from their constituents, can also determine what is appropriate for their communities.  
  
MoDOT’s transportation planning process is often referred to as the Planning Framework and culminates in the production of [[121.3 The Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)|the STIP]] that is MoDOT’s commitment to a 5-year construction program.  The transportation planning process has [[121.4 Quality Assurance / Quality Control for Project Prioritization|quality assurances and quality control]] and [[121.5 Prioritization Factors|prioritization factors]].  An [[121.6 STIP Amendments|amendment]] is required when adding a project to the STIP outside of the annual STIP update.
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MoDOT’s transportation planning process is often referred to as the Planning Framework and culminates in the production of [[121.3 The Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)|the STIP]] that is MoDOT’s commitment to a 5-year construction program.  The transportation planning process has [[121.4 Quality Assurance / Quality Control for Project Prioritization|quality assurances and quality control]] and [[121.5 Prioritization Factors|prioritization factors]].  MoDOT and its planning partners have developed an objective element of the planning framework that regions can use, along with subjective criteria, to prioritize regional needs.

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Missouri has more transportation needs than money to address them. MoDOT works with planning partners to select the most critical transportation projects and focuses on the state’s highest-priority transportation needs. MoDOT effectively uses planning and decision-making to ensure Missouri’s limited transportation dollars are responsibly spent. MoDOT’s planning process is more open than ever before. Even though the overall steps in the planning process have not changed, the opportunities for public involvement at the local level have grown. The process now identifies where individual decisions are made and how local officials and citizens can most easily affect these decisions.

Once a need has been adequately scoped and a project is developed to address it, there must be a way to determine how that project compares to other projects. Statewide consistency and regional representation are both very important to the prioritization process.

The planning framework relies on the right people being involved in making decisions and recognizes that transportation planning decisions can involve both objective and subjective criteria. Local officials, with input from their constituents, can also determine what is appropriate for their communities.

MoDOT’s transportation planning process is often referred to as the Planning Framework and culminates in the production of the STIP that is MoDOT’s commitment to a 5-year construction program. The transportation planning process has quality assurances and quality control and prioritization factors. MoDOT and its planning partners have developed an objective element of the planning framework that regions can use, along with subjective criteria, to prioritize regional needs.