About Us

COG is the one place in metropolitan Washington that regularly brings leaders together to develop solutions to the region's major challenges. COG prepares plans enabling the region to receive federal funding, provides members with research and data to inform decision-making, and offers a wide range of programs, including commuter services, cooperative purchasing, technical assistance and grants, and public outreach campaigns.

Transportation

Through the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), area officials, planners, and engineers ensure a well-managed and maintained transportation system. The TPB, which is staffed by COG, conducts the federally mandated transportation planning process for the region and ensures the uninterrupted flow of federal transportation funds that area jurisdictions receive.

Environment

COG's work engages leaders in various environmental fields from water quality experts to climate scientists. Together, they are advancing regional efforts to restore local waterways, improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change, promote recycling, and enhance and preserve green space and agriculture.

Community

Area officials and experts, including planning and housing directors and child welfare and health officials, work together with their counterparts at COG to help shape stronger communities throughout the region.

Homeland Security & Public Safety

COG brings police chiefs, fire chiefs, emergency managers, and other leaders together as part of its work to strengthen regional public safety coordination, homeland security planning, and emergency communication.

Transportation Planning Board

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the region, and plays an important role as the regional forum for transportation planning. The TPB prepares plans and programs that the federal government must approve in order for federal-aid transportation funds to flow to the Washington region.

Meetings are generally scheduled for the third Wednesday of the month at noon (except August).

Submit your comments to the TPB.

Listen to audio from recent TPB meetings by visiting the Events listing and searching by month.

Featured Documents

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Publications

TPB Participation Plan
Oct 21, 2020

This Participation Plan articulates the TPB’s commitment to transparent communications and engagement with the public and relevant public agencies to support the regional transportation planning process, including the development of the Long-Range Transportation Plan and the Transportation Improvement Program.
Resolutions

Resolution R1-2021 - Resolution to Establish Equity as a Fundamental Value and Integral Part of all Transportation Planning Board's Work Activities
Jul 22, 2020
Other Documents

Unified Planning Work Program for Transportation Planning for the Washington Metropolitan Region
Mar 26, 2018

The report describes the regional transportation planning and special technical assistance projects proposed to be undertaken by COG/TPB staff in cooperation with state and local agencies and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Publications

The Region: TPB Annual Report
Sep 1, 2016

The Region is an annual publication highlighting the work activities of the Transportation Planning Board. The latest edition features a look back at the TPB’s first 50 years as well as a remembrance of longtime TPB staff director Albert A. Grant.
Publications

Regional Transportation Priorities Plan
Jan 15, 2014

The Regional Transportation Priorities Plan identifies strategies with the greatest potential to respond to the region's most significant transportation challenges. It also identifies those strategies that are “within reach” both financially and politically - recognizing the need for pragmatism in an era of limited financial resources and a lack of political will to raise significant amounts of new revenue.
Publications

The TPB Vision
Oct 15, 1998

The Vision is a short, but influential, policy document that lays out eight broad goals to guide the region’s transportation investments into the 21st century. The Vision was unanimously approved in October 1998 by the Transportation Planning Board after an extensive public outreach effort that lasted three years.