The agency designated by the governor to administer the federally required transportation planning process in a metropolitan area. An MPO must be in place in every urbanized area over 50,000 population. The MPO is responsible for the 20-year long-range plan, the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), and the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP).
A planning group designated for each urban area with a population of 50,000 or more. Members include both private citizens and local government officials. A MPO addresses Federal aid planning mandates by producing local area transportation plans or transportation improvement programs on an annual or biannual basis, or by employing other strategies that make existing systems more efficient.
The forum for cooperative transportation decisionmaking for a metropolitan planning area. (23CFR420) Formed in cooperation with the state, develops transportation plans and programs for the metropolitan area. For each urbanized area, a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) must be designated by agreement between the Governor and local units of government representing 75% of the affected population (in the metropolitan area), including the central cities or cities as defined by the Bureau of the Census, or in accordance with procedures established by applicable State or local law (23 U.S.C. 134(b)(1)/Federal Transit Act of 1991 Sec. 8(b)(1)). (FHWA2)
The areawide agency charged with the conduct of the urban transportation planning process. In Jacksonville, the First Coast MPO conducts the Jacksonville Urban Area Transportation Study (JUATS) resulting in the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) for the region. An MPO is the designated regionwide recipient of Federal funds for the transportation planning process. Together with the FDOT, the First Coast MPO carries out the planning and programming activities necessary for Federal capital funding assistance. The First Coast MPO is designated by agreement among the various units of local government and the Governor.
Federal highway and transit statutes require, as a condition for spending federal highway or transit funds in urbanized areas, the designation of MPOs that have responsibility for planning, programming, and coordination of federal highway and transit investments within their designated area. Two MPOs have authority in the bi-state study area for the EIS for the Goethals Bridge Replacement: the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) and the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA).
a local governmental unit that has legal jurisdiction over a geographic area for government service planning such as transportation and land-use planning.
A federally required planning body responsible for the transportation planning and project selection in its region; the governor designates an MPO in every urbanized area with a population of over 50,000. MTC is the Bay Area’s MPO.
An association of local agencies established for mutual benefit and to help coordinate planning and development activities within a metropolitan region. Establishment of the MPO is required by law in urban areas of over 50,000 population if federal funds are to be used. The MPO consists of two groups. 1. The Policy board is comprised of officials representing the counties, cities, and state agency. 2. The technical advisory group consists of professional planners and engineers who are usually employees of the same agencies. The MPO is not a level of government. However, the MPO has "effective control" over transportation improvements within the area since a project must be a part of the MPO's adopted plan in order to receive federal funding.
The MPO for the Miami Urbanized Areas guides the transportation planning process in Miami-Dade County and approves all federally required plans for the development of highways, mass transit, and other surface transportation facilities and services.
The area-wide agency charged with the conduct of the urban transportation planning process. It is also the single, regionwide recipient of Federal funds for transportation planning purposes. Together with the state, it carries out the planning and programming activities necessary for Federal capital funding assistance. The MPO is designated by agreement among the various units of local government and the governor.
The organization designated to carry out the transportation planning process for metropolitan areas, according to 23 USC 134.
According to the U.S. Code, the organization designated by the governor and local elected officials as responsible, together with the state, for transportation planning in an urbanized area. It serves as the forum for cooperative decision making by principal elected officials of general local government. (See OKI)
As specified in TEA-21 and ISTEA, a MPO is a federally-mandated organization that is required to carry out the transportation planning process for urbanized area with a population of more than 50,000.
The organization required by the federal government, designated by states and operated by local officials for developing transportation plans and programs in urbanized areas of 50,000 or more people.
An organization made up of local elected and appointed officials responsible for developing, in cooperation with the state, transportation plans and programs in metropolitan areas containing 50,000 or more residents. MPOs are responsible for the development of transportation facilities that will function as an intermodal transportation system and the coordination of transportation planning and funding decisions.
The organizational entity designated by law with lead responsibility for developing transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas of 50,000 or more in population. MPOs are established by agreement of the Governor and units of general purpose local government, which together represents 75 percent of the affected population or an urbanized area. In the Chicago metropolitan region, the Chicago Area Transportation Study is the designated MPO and covers the six counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will and a portion of Kendall county.
The regional body, comprised of elected officials from the county, which undertakes a continuing, cooperative and comprehensive transportation planning process for the county. Lancaster County's MPO is named the Lancaster County Transportation Coordinating Committee.
The organization designated by local elected officials as being responsible for carrying out the urban transportation and other planning processes for an area.
Under federal legislation (see TEA-21), MPOs provide a forum where local officials, public transportation providers and state agency representatives can come together and cooperatively plan to meet a region's current and future transportation needs. Each MPO establishes its region's eligibility to receive federal tax dollars for transportation projects. MPOs carry the lead responsibility for developing transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas of 50,000 people or more.
The forum for cooperative decision making for the metropolitan planning area.
A metropolitan planning organization (MPO) is a transportation policy-making organization made up of representatives from local government and transportation authorities. In the early 1970s, the Congress of the United States passed legislation that required the formation of an MPO for any Urbanized Area (UZA) with a population greater than 50,000. Congress created MPOs in order to ensure that existing and future expenditures for transportation projects and programs are based on a continuing, cooperative and comprehensive (“3-Câ€) planning process.