On July 30, 2009, the Texas Transportation Commission created the Transportation Planning and Project Development Rulemaking Advisory Committee made up of representatives from metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), local government, transit organizations, tolling authorities and the Federal Highway Administration.

Based on input from the Committee, TxDOT drafted new planning and programming rules and adopted them August 26, 2010. They contain these four subchapters:

Subchapter A "Transportation Planning" includes requirements for the development of long-range 20+ year transportation plans for all modes of transportation;
Subchapter B "Transportation Programming" includes requirements for the development of financially constrained four and ten year programs that identify and authorize the construction of specific transportation projects;
Subchapter C "Transportation Funding" includes requirements for long-term funding assumptions applicable to both TxDOT and MPOs, extended cash flow forecasting, classification of TxDOT's program funding categories, establishment of certain funding formulas and the allocation of funds to TxDOT districts and MPOs;
Subchapter D "Project and Performance Reporting" includes requirements for the establishment of an information system that will quantify and report the on-time and on-budget delivery status of individual transportation projects.

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