Oblong format, 238 pages, with loose map slotted into the back cover. A clean, unmarked and solid copy, though obviously second hand. "The Baltimore Region Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) documents the anticipated timing, cost, and rationale for transportation improvements to be made in the Baltimore Region over the next three years. It is a program of specific projects, not a plan. In accordance with Federal guidelines, the TIP is a translation of recommendations from the transportation plan for the Baltimore Region (long-range and short-range elements) into a short-term program of improvements. As such, the TIP ensures future consistency between plan recommendations and project implementation in the region. The TIP also serves as a multi-modal listing of transportation projects in the region for which expenditures have been programmed between fiscal year 1984-1986. Only projects for which certain Federal funds have been programmed are required to be contained in the TIP, but an attempt is made to include all of the region's transportation projects, not just the ones that receive Federal aid." (TRID)