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On June 15, the TPB approved the Visualize 2045 Long-Range Transportation Plan Update and found that the FY 2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and the Plan Update conform to the requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Later at the meeting, the TPB adopted groundbreaking on-road transportation sector greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals of 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050.

Visualize 2045 long-range transportation plan update integrates maps into the plan report itself, through a Story Map, and through an interactive project map. All provide geographic tours of responses received during the plan's Voices of the Region public engagement activities and the plan’s transportation project list.

The TPB’s May 18 meeting centered on approval of the 2022 update of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan for the National Capital Region, Visualize 2045 long-range transportation plan update comments, and discussion of transportation sector greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals and strategies. In addition, the TPB received a first look at the draft Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Program performance measure targets for 2022 – 2025.

Visualize 2045, the metropolitan Washington region’s draft long-range transportation plan update, is available for comment through May 1. The 2022 update builds on the 2018 Visualize 2045 plan. With the past plan as its foundation, what is new or what stands out in the 2022 update? In brief, the latest Visualize 2045 plan marks recent progress in improved air quality, emphasizes transportation’s role in climate change, recognizes growing regional interest in bicycling and walking.

TPB members approved 11 projects for Transportation Land-Use Connections (TLC) Program funding, received a report on the Climate Change Mitigation Goals and Strategies survey results, and heard an overview of Visualize 2045, the draft long-range transportation plan update.

TPB board members discussed the draft 2022 Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan for the National Capital Region and the Cooperative Forecasting status update. TPB members approved for adoption the FY 2023 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP), FY 2023 Commuter Connections Work Program (CCWP), and 2022 transit asset management (TAM) targets.

On April 8, the TPB kicks off a new Transportation Resiliency Webinar Series.