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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October 14, 2009
COG members, stakeholders and the public are invited to review the draft report, Region Forward ©. It proposes goals, targets, and a compact agreement to...
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June 22, 2009
Listen to Greater Washington 2050 Coalition Members Barbara Favola, Alan Imhoff, Jim Dinegar and Stewart Schwartz, and COG Executive Director David Robertson...
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July 9, 2008
Despite the positive growth trends, COG Board Members voiced concern that development around Metrorail stations and in regional activity centers decreased by 10...
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May 30, 2007
COG brought together top elected officials and business leaders to discuss growth and development during a special forum on the future of the National Capital...
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October 18, 2006
Adjustments to the region's development patterns and transit plans can help the region avoid more than doubling traffic congestion by 2030, transportation...