Long-range forecasts provide data necessary for analyzing the effects of growth, developing policy responses to regional issues, ensuring air quality conformity of transportation plans, and determining the demand for public facilities.
COG provides regularly updated population, household, and employment forecasts for use in its planning and modeling activities as well as by the Transportation Planning Board and other state, regional, and local agencies. COG's Growth Trends report provides a summary and highlights of the forecasts. Established in 1975, the cooperative forecasting program enables local, regional, and federal agencies to coordinate planning activities using common assumptions about future growth and development. Each series of forecasts constitutes a “Round”, and each round covers a period of 20 to 30 years.
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July 6, 2011
The Daily Measure recently featured a video clip highlighting a debate on the region’s short- and long-term transportation priorities . The debate...
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May 31, 2011
City rankings are wildly abundant and as we’ve written before many of them have questionable criteria at best. Although there’s no shortage of “most...
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May 26, 2011
Media portrayal is powerful. In the same way that Friends and Sex and the City made the vibrancy and diversity of big city life appealing to a generation...
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May 23, 2011
We harp on this subject because it’s important. And thankfully we’re not alone in doing so. As funding sources like the gas tax become increasingly...
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May 3, 2011
Despite the market demand for transit-oriented mixed-use development and the multiple studies that prove that location decisions have the greatest impact...