THE OVERALL WORK PROGRAM
The Overall Work Program (OWP), a document that is produced annually, describes all of the regionally-significant surface transportation planning projects expected to be undertaken for Oahu during the Federal fiscal year. The OWP is an essential transportation-planning tool. It spells out the ongoing planning activities, planning studies, and technical support projects that are being conducted on behalf of the OahuMPO and its participating agencies and provides detailed budget information about them.
The OWP is a requirement for metropolitan planning initiatives performed using Federal funds. While planning studies funded by other, non-Federal sources need not be identified in the OWP, the OahuMPO includes them to reflect the context and direction they set for the major planning efforts being undertaken for the metropolitan planning area, which includes the entire Island of Oahu.
The work performed under this annual work program is primarily accomplished by a combination of professional and technical staff and consultants under the direction of the OahuMPO and its participating agencies. The level of study for projects funded through the OWP generally does not go beyond concept-level planning. OWP funds cannot be used for preliminary engineering, final design, or construction projects.
OWP NEWS
- The FY 2010 OWP was endorsed by the OahuMPO Policy Committee on May 28, 2009, and approved by the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration on June 10, 2009. In its deliberations on the request by the Department of Transportation Services (DTS) to delete Work Element 206.20-06 (Waterborne Transit Feasibility Study) from the FY 2010 OWP, the Policy Committee asked for additional information from DTS prior to taking any action. Therefore, the approved FY 2010 OWP includes Work Element 206.20-06.
Posted June 22, 1009 - The current, FY 2009 OWP was approved by the OahuMPO Policy Committee on June 3, 2008.
- Revision #1 to the FY 2009 Overall Work Program was approved by the Policy Committee on November 21, 2008.
- An errata sheet correcting some typographical errors in the original FY 2009 was issued on December 9, 2008.
- Revision #2 to the FY 2009 Overall Work Program reflects an administrative change to Work Element 201.50-05 Land Use Model and Enhancement. This revision reassigns responsibility for the planning study from the Department of Planning and Permitting to the OahuMPO, as well as makes some technical modifications. This revision was effective on December 29, 2008.
