Documents

Final Report of the Incident Management and Response Oversight Committee

A follow-up to the November 2011 Report of the Steering Committee on Incident Management and Response (IMR), which offered recommendations to improve regional coordination, communication, preparedness, and decision]making during incidents and emergencies. After the report's release, the group continued to meet and track progress on its recommendations as the IMR Oversight Committee. The Oversight Committeefs April 2013 final report highlights significant progress in several areas, including information sharing among officials, messaging to the public, updating employee release policies, and

Final Report of 9-1-1 Service Gaps During and Following the Derecho Storm

Report by local 9-1-1 directors and government officials focuses on preventing outages to the vital service, such as the one that occurred during and after the June 29, 2012 Derecho storm. Report makes recommendations to Verizon and informs state and federal regulatory efforts.

Wise Water Use Landscaping Guide

A wise water use landscaping and watering guide for the COG region.

The Financially Constrained Long-Range Transportation Plan (2012)

The Financially Constrained Long-Range Transportation Plan, or CLRP, identifies and describes all regionally significant transportation projects and programs that are planned in the Washington metropolitan area between 2012 and 2040. The CLRP is updated annually and this year's update was adopted on July 18, 2012.

Activity Centers Maps

Official adopted version and past versions of the Activity Centers Maps. Activity Centers are the locations that will accommodate the majority of the region’s future growth.

Plastic Bag Report

The Washington region has become a national leader in single-use carryout bag management. Concern over bag pollution, particularly for plastic bags, sparked efforts to regulate the bags about five years ago, primarily on the West Coast. During the last three years, two large local jurisdictions have passed bag-fee laws making the area nationally unique in its application of fees to limit use of both paper and plastic bags. This report reviews recent local and national developments.

Electric Vehicles in Metropolitan Washington

This report seeks to provide a framework for establishing a regional readiness plan for the deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) in the metropolitan Washington region.

Economy Forward: COG's Call to Action for a More Competitive Metropolitan Washington

Region Forward is COG’s vision for a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable metropolitan Washington. This report, Economy Forward, is an offshoot of the vision that focuses on the region’s key economic needs and specific actions to strengthen economic competitiveness and spur and sustain job growth.

Air Quality Conformity Determination of the 2012 CLRP and FY 2013-2018 TIP for the Washington Metropolitan Region

Metrorail Station Access Alternatives Study - Final Report

Metrorail ridership is projected to continue to grow over the next two decades, reaching nearly a million daily rail riders by 2040. A key aspect of accommodating this growth will be simply getting the passengers to the stations and onto the trains. In an atmosphere of competing priorities, state-of-good repair investments will receive the bulk of funding, making the estimated 30,000 spaces required if the current Park & Ride arrival mode of 30% remains constant all the more difficult to fund. In addition, WMATA has a strategic objective in using its station areas for transit-oriented development, rather than for additional parking resources.