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

Transportation Improvement Program

The Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is a federal obligation document which describes the planned schedule in the next four years for distributing federal, state and local funds for state and local transportation projects. The TIP represents an agency’s intent to construct or implement specific projects in the short term and identifies the anticipated flow of federal funds and matching state or local contributions. It is a multimodal list of projects that includes highway projects, rail, bus and streetcar projects, and bicycle and pedestrian improvements. It also includes roadway and transit maintenance projects, operational programs, and many other transportation-related activities.

The TPB approved the FY 2023–2026 TIP on June 15, 2022. It includes over 300 projects and programs with more than $11 billion in funding from federal, state, local, private, and other sources.

The TIP is a dynamic budgeting document and is typically amended and modified several times each month by the TPB member implementing agencies.

Transportation Improvement Program

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