The Transportation Review Advisory Council (TRAC) is a nine-member Council chaired by ODOT Director Pamela Boratyn. The TRAC is tasked with evaluating funding applications that result in ODOT’s largest transportation project investments. Projects reviewed by the TRAC have a total project cost greater than $12 million, add capacity to the transportation system, and support economic development. These projects are eligible to receive funds through the ODOT’s Major New Capacity Program. ODOT transportation professionals have developed a funding application evaluation analysis to assist in the TRAC’s decision making.
ODOT requests input from metropolitan planning organizations like MORPC and rural transportation planning organizations like CORPO as part of the application evaluation process. Each funding cycle, MORPC and CORPO conduct evaluations of the TRAC applications that fall within their respective transportation planning boundaries. For MORPC, this process includes analyzing and prioritizing each application based on the region’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) goals and objectives. For CORPO, this process includes analyzing each project with how it aligns with the region’s transportation and development goals as detailed in CORPO’s Transportation Plan (CTP). MORPC and CORPO then provide the region’s TRAC project priorities to ODOT, which are considered during the funding selection process.
2025 TRAC Applications
Eleven projects from the MORPC transportation planning area were submitted to TRAC during the 2025 application period. Funded through ODOT’s Major New Capacity Program, these transportation projects have a total project cost greater than $12 million, add capacity to the transportation system, and support economic development. The proposed projects seeking funding for this cycle are located in Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, and Delaware counties.
To learn more about the TRAC project applications, please review the following one-page fact sheets:
MORPC Planning Area
1. Downtown Ramp Up Phase 2D
2. Sunbury Parkway Phases B
3. Sunbury Parkway Phases C
4. East Main St BRT
5. Alum Creek Drive
6. I-70 at SR 256 and Taylor Rd
7. SR 161 and SR 37 Widening
8. SR 315 at Lane Avenue
9. North Outerbelt Interchange (I-71S to I-270E)
10. DEL-23 at Home Rd
11. DEL-23 at Orange Rd
CORPO Planning Area
No applications submitted for the 2025 cycle.
TRAC received 27 applications from across the state for development or construction of transportation projects requesting a total of $674 million statewide. The 11 TRAC funding requests made in the MORPC planning area represents over $290 million.
MORPC is receiving comments from the public from June 23 through August 8. These comments will be considered in the project prioritization analysis and will be shared with the project applicants. Please submit comments by e-mail to trac@morpc.org or by mail to:
Maria Schaper
Re: TRAC Public Input
111 Liberty Street
Suite 100
Columbus, OH 43215
TRAC Project Prioritization
Each funding cycle, MORPC and CORPO conduct evaluations of the TRAC applications that fall within their respective boundaries and have a public comment period regarding the applications. MORPC and CORPO submit their respective project prioritization recommendations to the TRAC. View recommendations from previous rounds below.
