Organization Type: MPO or RPO
Metropolitan Planning Organization or Regional Planning Organization
Definition: A federally funded transportation policy-making organization, comprised of local government representatives and transportation authorities
Digest Search Results Page: https://www.planningdigest.com/org/mpo/
Corresponding TRID/TRT Terms
TRID Search Results Page: https://pubsindex.trb.org/results.aspx?tc=NN:Nggks
TRT Search Results Page: https://trt.trb.org/trt.asp?NN=Nggks
- Smart Growth Self-Assessment for Rural Communities: Madison County, New York
This report documents the development of a smart growth assessment tool for rural communities, designed by the EPA and tested in Madison County.
- Smartphone Panels as Viable and Cost-effective GPS Data Collection for Small and Medium Planning Agencies
This research investigates the feasibility for other data collection methods for small and mid-sized MPOs, such as GPS data from a smartphone.
- A Comparison of Accessibility to Supermarkets using Cumulative Opportunities and Closest Facility Measures for Transit and Auto Users
This research investigates accessibility to supermarkets in order to evaluate food opportunities for users of different modes of transportation.
- Managing the TDM Process : Developing MPO Institutional Capacity
This research considers areas of improvement for MPOs in Texas, focusing on travel demand modeling practices.
- Navigating Our Future: Best Practices Case Studies from the Tennessee Regions’ Roundtable Network
This report consists of case studies of best practices in community and transportation planning throughout Tennessee.
- The Innovative MPO
This guidebook gives direction to the development of innovative practices at metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).
- Transit-Oriented Development in the States
This study observed trends in transit-oriented development (TOD) – the practice of shaping development patterns in order to encourage transit ridership.
- Quantifying Transit’s Impact on GHG Emissions and Energy Use—The Land Use Component
This study used statistical modeling to quantify the effects of land use, with emphasis on isolating the effects of transit systems.
- Lifting the Veil on Bicycle & Pedestrian Spending
This report analyzes bicycle and pedestrian investments included in STIPs and MPO planning documents.
- Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks
This handbook aims to provide transportation practitioners with guidance for rural and small-town specific geographic, fiscal, and other challenges.