About RTP

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962 required the formation of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) for any urbanized areas with populations greater than 50,000. MPOs were created in order to ensure that existing and future expenditures for transportation projects and programs were based on a continuing, cooperative and comprehensive planning process. Federal funding for transportation projects and programs are channeled through this planning process.

NYMTC is a Regional Council of Governments and the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for New York City , Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley . This means it is required by the federal government to provide a continuing, coordinated, comprehensive transportation planning process in its Region in order to receive any federal transportation funds.

One of the planning products required of NYMTC is a Regional Transportation Plan which lays out the region’s transportation needs and desires over a minimum of a twenty year period. NYMTC’s current Plan was adopted by NYMTC in 1994 and first updated in 1999. Current Federal regulations require that the plan be updated every three years.

Current RTP can be viewed in the reports section. Update and previous RTPs are available on NYMTC website.