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Illinois Department of Transportation Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) <br /> Statewide Non-Metropolitan Transit Planning-5305e NOFO Number: 23-494-80-1136 <br /> A. Program Description <br /> The Illinois Department of Transportation (the Department) shall be applying for federal Section 5305(e) State <br /> Planning and Research funds and has limited state matching funds to pay for and oversee balanced and <br /> comprehensive planning, preliminary engineering, design, and evaluation studies of public and non-public <br /> transportation modes that are included in the metropolitan or statewide transportation planning process (49 USC <br /> 5305(e)). These studies shall help the successful applicant (Grantee) mitigate or resolve an intermodal <br /> transportation problem while also furthering one or more of the primary goals listed below. The Illinois Long- <br /> Range Transportation Plan further describes these primary goals (https:Hidot.illinois.gov/Assets/uploads/files/ <br /> About-IDOT/Misc/Planning/IDOT_LRTP_1_Introduction4119df.pdf). <br /> 1. Increase accessibility and mobility of people and freight. <br /> 2. Enhance travel and tourism. <br /> 3. Increase security for motorized and non-motorized users. <br /> 4. Increase safety for motorized and non-motorized users. <br /> 5. Support economic vitality. <br /> 6. Enhance integration and connectivity across modes. <br /> 7. Promote efficient system management and operation. <br /> 8. Emphasize preservation of the existing transportation system. <br /> 9. Improve resiliency and reliability of the transportation system and reduce or mitigate the stormwater <br /> impacts of surface transportation. <br /> 10. Promote environmental protection, energy conservation, improved quality-of-life, and consistency between <br /> transportation improvements, land use, and economic development. <br /> Previously funded projects included, but were not limited to the following: Transit alternatives analyses, transit <br /> comprehensive operations analyses, corridor comprehensive transportation studies, express and night bus <br /> feasibility studies, fare pricing analyses, logistics corridor feasibility studies, pandemic-related transit ridership <br /> studies, smart corridor plan and design studies, transit center/capital feasibility studies, transit equity studies, <br /> transit market analyses, travel behavior studies, passenger rail extension feasibility studies, bus rapid transit/ <br /> arterial rapid transit corridor studies, bicycle network planning, and travel demand forecast model development. <br /> This program shall use the following general performance measures to judge each study's success: <br /> 1. Adherence to the mutually agreed upon Scope of Work, budget, milestones, and deliverables. <br /> 2. Prompt and accurate response to the Department's inquiries about the study. <br /> 3. The Grantee's ability to work well with the Department as the Department shall oversee the study's progress. <br /> The Grantee shall invite the Department to all meetings and provide the Department's Program Support <br /> (Planning) Section sufficient time to review all study deliverables. <br /> 4. Timely, accurate, comprehensive, and well-written deliverables that address the Scope of Work. More <br /> specific performance measures may be added at a later date to the Grant Agreement to address the specific <br /> Printed 04/06/23 Page 1 of 12 <br />