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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January 8, 2014
At its January 2014 meeting, the COG Board of Directors approved Place + Opportunity , a new report that analyzes development opportunities in area business...
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November 19, 2013
Like other top officials across metropolitan Washington, school superintendents say the area’s demographic changes and rapid population growth are among their...
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October 30, 2013
As promised in an earlier Yardstick post here are the results from our September 27 th event Economy Forward: Help Shape the Future of the Region. ...
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October 29, 2013
A lot goes into predicting how people will travel around the region decades from now.
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October 10, 2013
Mary Hynes was first elected to the County Board in 2007. Prior to that she served for 12 years as an Arlington School Board member. Hynes is also an active...