Planned Transportation Spending

North Carolina

An examination of North Carolina’s 2009-2015 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program reveals that road new capacity projects make up the largest chunk of the state’s spending, 58 percent of the STIP.** Bridge maintenance/replacement and road maintenance/minor widening projects comprise 18 percent of the expenditures (12 percent and 6 percent, respectively). Transit follows, at 10 percent of proposed spending. Projects such as freight infrastructure, landscaping, information technology and general planning fall into the “other” category, which makes up 7 percent of the spending. Safety projects comprise 4 percent, bicycle/pedestrian projects 2 percent, and bridge new capacity projects comprise 1 percent of the state’s planned spending.

Proposed Spending, FY 2009-2015

Project Type Cost (Millions)
Total $12,184.70
Bridge Maintenance/Replacement $1,457.03
Road Maintenance/Minor Widening $705.11
New Road Capacity** $7,102.37
Transit* $1,237.58
Bicycle/Pedestrian $194.54
Safety $547.19
Bridge Capacity Expansion $119.38
Other $821.50

* TSTC received the transit total from NCDOT; TSTC did not remove any state or local-only operating assistance.
** According to NCDOT, the STIP represents half of the agency’s entire budget. The majority of the agency’s non-STIP funding is used primarily on maintenance and operations.

Percentage of STIP by project type

  • bmr
    12
    Bridge Maintenance/Replacement
  • rmmw
    6
    Road Maintenance/Minor Widening
  • nrc
    58
    New Road Capacity
  • tran
    10
    Transit
  • bp
    1
    Bicycle/Pedestrian
  • sfty
    5
    Safety
  • bce
    1
    Bridge Capacity Expansion
  • othr
    7
    Other
All percentages rounded