The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the region, and plays an important role as the regional forum for transportation planning. The TPB prepares plans and programs that the federal government must approve in order for federal-aid transportation funds to flow to the Washington region.
The TPB's planning activities must follow regulations and meet standards set forth in federal law. The TPB works with more than 20 local jurisdictions, two states and the District of Columbia, and multiple transportation agencies to develop a policy framework that will guide transportation decision making in the National Capital Region for decades to come.
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October 23, 2012
It's time again for transportation agencies in the Washington region to identify new projects or programs to include in the region's constrained long-range...
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October 9, 2012
Frank Principi Chairman COG Board of Directors
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September 18, 2012
A current Transportation Planning Board effort to identify the region's top transportation infrastructure needs and ways to pay for those improvements is,...
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September 5, 2012
Three years and eleven short-term extensions after the previous funding act expired, Congress in June passed a new law authorizing the expenditure of federal...
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July 24, 2012
As it adopted updates to the region's 30-year transportation plan during its most recent meeting on July 18, the Transportation Planning Board at the same time...