State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) FFY 2026-2035
The STIP is a list of transportation projects the State of Rhode Island intends to implement using United States Department of Transportation funds. For a transportation project to utilize federal funds it must be included in the STIP.
Federal regulations require that the State Planning Council, acting as the single statewide Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in Rhode Island, adopt a new STIP at a minimum of every four (4) years. The Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 202-2035 Rhode Island State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) was adopted by the State Planning Council on September 11, 2025. It covers the required four-year revenue constrained time period of Federal Fiscal Years FFY 2026-2029, with additional information included for FFY 2030-2035.
A project’s inclusion in the STIP is a critical step, but it does not represent an allocation of funds, obligation to fund, or grant of funds. Projects supported with federal dollars are only guaranteed funding after the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) or the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) or the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) reviews the design, financing, and environmental impacts of a project.
The STIP’s program of capital projects can be viewed at the online 2026-2035 STIP Mapping Dashboard. This application contains the ability to search by municipality to view assets of a specific project and contains all the details of that project in the STIP.
Our E-STIP Public Viewer can also be accessed here. This tool provides the most up to date information on STIP projects and gives users the ability to export reports and search by more specific attributes of a project, such as year, program, or investment type.
Detailed STIP 2026-2035 Contents
STIP 2026-2035 Public Comment Report
Self-Certification of Rhode Island’s FFY 2026-2035 STIP
