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About Us

COG is the one place in metropolitan Washington that regularly brings leaders together to develop solutions to the region's major challenges. COG prepares plans enabling the region to receive federal funding, provides members with research and data to inform decision-making, and offers a wide range of programs, including commuter services, cooperative purchasing, technical assistance and grants, and public outreach campaigns.

Transportation

Through the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), area officials, planners, and engineers ensure a well-managed and maintained transportation system. The TPB, which is staffed by COG, conducts the federally mandated transportation planning process for the region and ensures the uninterrupted flow of federal transportation funds that area jurisdictions receive.

Environment

COG's work engages leaders in various environmental fields from water quality experts to climate scientists. Together, they are advancing regional efforts to restore local waterways, improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change, promote recycling, and enhance and preserve green space and agriculture.

Community

Area officials and experts, including planning and housing directors and child welfare and health officials, work together with their counterparts at COG to help shape stronger communities throughout the region.

Homeland Security & Public Safety

COG brings police chiefs, fire chiefs, emergency managers, and other leaders together as part of its work to strengthen regional public safety coordination, homeland security planning, and emergency communication.

Visualize

Jun 28, 2017

Introducing Visualize 2045!

Work is now underway on a new kind of long-range transportation plan for the National Capital Region. We're calling it Visualize 2045.

Visualize 2045 will highlight hundreds of regionally significant highway, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects being planned throughout the region in the coming decades. The plan will serve as a tool for visualizing the future—to help us understand where today’s planning and funding decisions will get us. Learn more about Visualize 2045.

Take the Visualize 2045 public input survey

We’ve launched a fun, interactive online survey to solicit input about people's travel patterns, how key transportation issues affect them, and their ideas for improving transportation in the region.

We'll share our findings with elected leaders and regional planners to help them better understand public attitudes and opinion as they make decisions about the region’s transportation future. Take the survey!

Help us spread the word

We want as many people to hear about this survey as possible! Please help us spread the word by sharing the survey link with your mailing lists and social media networks. The survey will be open through July 31.

We’ll also be attending community events throughout the region over the next several weeks to get the word out and let people take the survey in person. Go to visualize2045.org to see our calendar of events.

Stay connected

Learn about key public input opportunities, decision points, and new data and analysis as it becomes available. Sign up for email updates and follow #VIZ2045 on Twitter.

Visualize 2045 is being developed by the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, the federally designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for metropolitan Washington. The TPB is housed at and staffed by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG).

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