BMPO Partners

Idaho Falls Community Pathways (IFCP) is an organization devoted to promoting non-motorized transportation in Idaho Falls.   IFCP’s mission is to promote and improve walking, cycling and other forms of people-powered transportation in the Idaho Falls area. The term ‘pathways’ in the name refers to any route pedestrians, cyclists and other non-motorized travelers use to reach their destinations, such as sidewalks, crosswalks, multi-use paths, pedestrian bridges, and roadways shared with automobiles. IFCP believes that communities can successfully meet the transportation needs of all residents, whether they be motorists, recreational pedestrians and cyclists or those who walk or bike as their primary means of transportation.

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) supports transportation planners and the transportation planning practice. FTA administers metropolitan planning and statewide planning grant programs to help fund the multimodal transportation planning efforts of metropolitan planning organizations and state departments of transportation. FTA may also be used by grantees to support their planning needs. FTA also provides technical assistance on a broad range of planning topics including regional and statewide planning and programming.

Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) is charged with the broad responsibility of ensuring that America’s roads and highways continue to be the safest and most technologically up-to-date. Although S tate, local, and tribal governments own most of the Nation’s highways, FHWA provides financial and technical support to them for constructing, improving, and preserving America’s highway system. FHWA’s annual budget of more than $30 billion is funded by fuel and motor vehicle excise taxes. The budget is primarily divided between two programs: Federal-aid funding to State and local governments; and Federal Lands Highways funding for national parks, national forests, Indian lands, and other land under Federal stewardship.

The Federal-aid Highway Program provides Federal financial resources and technical assistance to State and local governments for constructing, preserving, and improving the National Highway System, a 163,000+ (163,752 actual) mile network of roads, comprising only 4 percent of the nation’s total road mileage, but carrying approximately 45 percent of the Nation’s highway traffic. The program also provides resources for one million additional miles of urban and rural roads that are not on the System, but that are eligible for Federal-aid.