Growth & Accessibility Planning Technical Assistance Program

The Growth & Accessibility Planning or GAP-TA Program serves to support Virginia localities as well as the goals of the Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment (OIPI)

GAP Program Components

This technical assistance program has four components, each component has differences in the eligible applicants, eligible activities, expected outcomes, and application evaluation criteria. Applicants may only receive one type of award per cycle.

Component 1: Conduct multimodal planning within existing or planned Urban Development Areas or Growth Areas (per Virginia Code § 15.2-2223.1)

Component 2: Develop or evaluate strategies to address emerging planning issues

Component 3: Develop an accessibility planning process

Component 4: Conduct multimodal planning outside urbanized areas

GAP-TA Program Guidance

Coming in August: FY23 GAP Technical Assistance Guidance
FY22 GAP Technical Assistance Program Guidance
FY21 GAP Technical Assistance Program Guidance

GAP-TA Program Application

The GAP-TA application is considered an expression of interest that contains 10 to 20 questions on the following items and takes approximately 15 to 30 minutes to complete.

Type of Agency/Jurisdiction
Contact Info
The focus of the technical assistance request
The desired end output or outcomes (500 words)
Preliminary scope outline (1000 words)
Letter of support
A map or shapefile of the area where the proposed work will be performed
A map or a shapefile of the study area/corridor

The application does not have to be completed in one session as there is a “Save and Continue Later” option. Once an application is submitted, an email, with a PDF copy will be sent from noreply@alchemer.com to the email addresses listed as the primary and secondary contact.

An entity or jurisdiction can utilize one application for submitting technical assistance requests for multiple GAP-TA Components. For example, a county can apply for Component 1 and Component 4 in the same application.

Explore the GAP Program

The GAP-TA program has been providing technical support since Fiscal Year 2021. Please use the map window to see the location of the awards and the filters below to see the ongoing and completed work.

Ongoing GAP Studies and Plans

Projects shown in this map are currently in the development process

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List of GAP-TA Studies

102: Danvile-Pittsylvania MPO Study Identification and Prioritization Tool Process and Technical Guide

106: Franklin County Union Hall UDA Plan

107: Gloucester County Urban Development Areas Multimodal Transportation Study

109: Centerville Village and Courthouse Urban Development Area Pedestrian Access Plan

111: Town of Leesburg Historic Downtown Loading Zone Management Study

112: City of Lexington Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan

113: Loudoun County On-Street Bikeway Gap Analysis

116: Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission Transportation Needs Screening Tool Guide

118: Retrofitting Legacy Roads with Modern Traffic Control Measures and Pedestrian Access Improvements

119: Eastern Culpeper Small Area Plan

120: City of Richmond's Performance-based Planning for Measuring Equitable Access

121: Roanoke County 419 Town Center Design Guidelines

122: Establishing a Performance-Based Long-Range Planning Process for the Roanoke Valley

123: Warrenton Road Multimodal Study

124: Tri-Cities Area MPO Performance Based Planning Process

126: Town of Vinton Route 24 Bike/Ped Plan

200: Falls Church Urban Development Area (UDA) Pedestrian Connection

201: Development of Non-motorized Infrastructure Needs Prioritization Process for the City of Charlottesville

203: Town of Mount Crawford Urban Development Area Non-motorized Infrastructure Evaluation

204: Town of Washington Pathways Assessment and Improvement Plan

205: Town of Remington Pedestrian Infrastructure and Traffic Calming Evaluation

206: Rappahannock County's Sperryville & Flint Hill Pedestrian Infrastructure Evaluation

209: Development of Charlottesville-Albemarle MPO Performance-Based Planning Process

211: Harrisonburg Street Connectivity Evaluation and Road Diet Multimodal Evaluation

FY23 GAP-TA Program Timeline

Phase	Date
Application Intake Opens	September 1, 2022
OIPI Provides Information and Guidance	September 1 – November 1, 2022
Application Intake Ends	November 1, 2022
Application Evaluation Completed	November 30, 2022
Applicants Notified	December 3, 2022
OIPI Issues Notice to Proceed	December 3, 2022 – January 3, 2023
Kickoff Meetings	January 2023
Quarterly Update Meetings	To be determined with the recipients at a later date

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Looking for more specific information about the GAP Technical Assistance Program? Find more information on our Frequently Asked Questions page here: https://vtrans.org/get-involved/frequently-asked-questions.