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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March 28, 2011
As Census 2010 data is incrementally released and incrementally analyzed demography has been getting more than its usual share of attention over the past few...
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March 4, 2011
We’ve had quite a few lengthy posts lately so let’s end the week with something light. Maps that change the size of a country based on a variable (aka...
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February 7, 2011
TOD without the T is just OD. Over at GOOD Allison Arieff writes about a transit-oriented development (TOD) in an outer suburb of metro Washington whose...
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January 20, 2011
Yesterday’s Morning Measure focused on the impacts of the collapse (of part) of the housing market on land use in the localities hardest hit by that...
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December 22, 2010
The news coming out of the Census Bureau about D.C.’s first decade of population growth since the 1950s is promising. This is representative of a growing...