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.
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