The Council of Governments ensures a well-managed and maintained transportation system through its support of the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), the federally designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for metropolitan Washington. 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.
The Transportation Planning Board's work spans a wide range of transportation modes, such as highways, transit, walking, and bicycling, as well as planning related to the region's freight movement and three major airports. The TPB also addresses some of the region’s most significant issues like equity, climate change and the environment, transportation resilience, the economy, public health, traffic safety, land use, funding, and emerging technologies.
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December 2, 2024
The DMVMoves Task Force considered transit funding scenarios that have been elevated to the group based on months of meetings and discussions from DMVMoves...
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November 29, 2024
The TPB met on September 18, October 16, and November 20, 2024. Key agenda items included briefs on EV infrastructure implementation, the Regional Air Passenger...
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November 15, 2024
The following is a statement by Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Board of Directors Chair Charles Allen in response to the U.S. Department of...