Public Participation Plan

• Describes how the MPO will let the public know about opportunities to get involved with regional transportation planning

Unified Planning Work Program

• Lists regional transportation planning tasks to be performed by the MPO and local agencies
• Lists funding sources, timing, and the responsible agency
• Includes federally funded tasks as well as those with state and local funding
• Adopted annually

Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program

• Lists priority projects from the regional plan that realistically can be funded within the next 3 to 5 years
• Allocates state and federal funds for both capital and operating needs
• Becomes part of the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program
• Updated every two years

Regional Transportation Plan (RTP)

• The broad framework plan for the MPO
• Has both long and short range policies, strategies, and actions
• Lists projects needed within 20 years
• Contains cost estimates and funding sources
• Provides a framework for choosing future projects
• Updated every 4 years
• Includes the transportation demand management element

Both the 2035 RTP (adopted December, 2011) and the 2031 RTP (adopted November, 2007) are available here.

Air Quality Conformity Determination

• A finding that local transportation projects do not exceed the region’s limit for motor vehicle pollution set by state and federal standards
• Updated when the Regional Transportation Plan and the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program are changed; not less frequently than every 3 years.