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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December 9, 2010
Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker [pictured left] and Nonprofit Roundtable Executive Director Chuck Bean discuss Region Forward at COG Annual...
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December 1, 2010
Planners economic development officials policy makers and general enthusiasts have an obsession with lists and rankings of metro areas. That’s the charge...
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November 11, 2010
New forecasts for growth in population jobs and housing in the metro Washington region from now until 2040 were presented yesterday during a meeting of the COG...
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August 16, 2010
Roger Lewis devotes Shaping the City column to COG's new regional planning effort.
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January 13, 2010
COG will now ask 21 area governments to officially endorse the regional planning effort.