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.

Transportation

Transit Asset Management

The final transit asset management rule became effective October 1, 2016. The rule applies to almost every transit provider in the region. Per the rulemaking, the accountable executive for each provider was to set performance targets for fiscal year 2018 (FY 2018) by January 1, 2017. Subsequent FTA guidance has provided additional latitude in target-setting based on the transit provider’s fiscal year.

TPB staff have collected the performance and targets from each provider in the region and have developed a matrix of reporting entities and their current performance targets to propose as the target setting for the metropolitan planning area by the TPB. The board received a briefing on the draft targets in April, with approval scheduled for May 2017.

Regional Targets for Transit Asset Management - 2017 Report

Providers of Public Transportation – Individual Targets: the following letters, presentation slides, and other data were provided by the individual reporting entities