ARLINGTON, VA, UNITED STATES, September 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Decision Lens today announced a new Approvals workflow that enhances end-to-end STIP and TIP management, bringing the amendment cycle into the same platform agencies already use to prioritize and program transportation investments. The release also adds in-app mapping, user-configurable decision frameworks, and custom visualizations and dashboards.
Until now, agencies could score, prioritize, and program in Decision Lens but still managed amendments and sign-offs outside the platform, in spreadsheets, email threads, and separate approval chains. Approvals is the piece that closes that gap. Proposed changes are queued rather than applied immediately, reviewed by named approvers, documented with a full audit trail of who changed what and why, and pushed to every connected plan once accepted. With it, a STIP or TIP can be built, funded, amended, and defended in one place, and the platform now spans the full lifecycle of a transportation investment.
What sets Decision Lens apart is how much of that software framework the agency controls. Planners work with their programs on a map and establish project boundaries with points, lines or polygons without leaving the platform. Program owners shape the decision framework itself, adjusting criteria, weights, and terminology and seeing the updates immediately rather than filing a vendor ticket and waiting on a release (and a bill). The views leadership relies on are built the same way, inside the platform, so a team can bring a decision-ready map, dashboard, or custom visualization straight into a board meeting instead of rebuilding it in PowerPoint or Excel. The result is a platform agencies shape to how they actually work, rather than one they have to work around.
"Agencies have told us they want to do more in one place and lean less on spreadsheets, consultants, and vendor tickets. With approvals now in the platform, a STIP or TIP can be built, funded, amended, and defended in one environment, and the capability belongs to the agency. On top of that, the mapping, workflows, and visualizations we are putting in users’ hands are a clear step ahead of what else is on the market for MPOs and DOTs." - Dr. Alison Denton, SVP, State & Local, Decision Lens
These capabilities are available now. Designed for MPOs and DOTs and trusted by transportation agencies nationwide, including TxDOT, Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission and ArDOT, Decision Lens modernizes how agencies set priorities, program projects, and allocate funding.
To see it in action, book a demo at https://www.decisionlens.com/transportation-improvement-plan-tip.