Southwest Minnesota Regional Information

Area Transportation Partnership

MnDOT created Area Transportation Partnership (ATP) to emphasize greater public involvement in preparation of transportation plans and programs. The Southwest Minnesota ATP is one of eight ATPs in Minnesota (one for each MnDOT District area). Every year, the ATPs develop an Annual Transportation Improvement Program (ATIP). ATIPs cover a minimum four -year period. ATIPs include all projects seeking federal aid highway, state trunk highway, and federal transit sources of funding.

Members/Guidance Manual

View MnDOT District 8 ATP members (PDF). Members of ATP-8 include:

• 6 elected officials (2 appointed by each Regional Development Commission)
• 1 representative of each of the 7 State Aid cities (yearly rotational process)
• 4 MnDOT District 8 representatives
• 1 Transit representative
• 3 county engineers (1 from each Regional Development Commission)

ATP-8 Guidance Manual (Operating Procedures & Policies)

Meetings

• Meeting minutes and handouts

Transportation Alternatives (TA) Solicitation

• Deadlines:
  • Tuesday-October 1, 2019
    • Announce Transportation Alternatives solicitation - Open Letter of Intent period.
  • Thursday-October 31, 2019
    • Deadline for applicants to submit letters of intent.
  • Friday-January 3, 2020
    • Deadline for applicants to submit full applications
  • Monday-April 15, 2020
    • Deadline for ATPs to select TA projects
• TA Guidebook/Forms/Checklist/Application::
  • Guidebook
  • LOI Checklist
  • LOI (Letter of Intent) [online submittal]
  • Application [PDF] [Word]
  • Press Release

Activities

• Schedule of activities

Commercial Vehicle Operations

• Overdimension Maps

STIP/ATIP

It is the ATP's responsibility of overseeing the solicitation and creation of the Area Transportation Improvement Program (ATIP). Each of the eight ATPs compose a separate ATIP which, when combined together, create the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). ATIPs are approved by June of the incoming fiscal year. The STIP is not official until both the MnDOT Commissioner and FHWA approve it. A STIP may not become approved until December of the first fiscal year of the STIP.

• 2019-2022 STIP
• ATP 8 Map for 2019-2022
• ATP 8 Project List for 2019-2022
• ATP 8 10-Year CHIP Map 2019-2028

Questions?

Lindsey (Knutson) Bruer
District Planning Director
lindsey.bruer@state.mn.us
320-979-5534