About UPWP

The Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century, or TEA21, has a mandate for the development of Unified Planning Work Programs (UPWPs or Work Programs) in its metropolitan transportation planning regulations. Specifically, the regulations require metropolitan planning organizations like the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council to work in cooperation with the State and operators of publicly owned transit services to develop such Work Programs. Equally important, however, is NYMTC's mission and vision which defines and guides its transportation planning program. NYMTC's planning framework, a multi-year prospectus (based on its mission and vision), is intended to assure a comprehensive, coordinated and cooperative planning process. Together with the aforementioned regulations, NYMTC's mission, vision, and planning framework will result in Work Programs that:

	·	Discuss the planning priorities facing the metropolitan area and describe all metropolitan transportation and transportation-related air quality planning activities anticipated within the next one-to-two years and
	·	Document planning activities to be performed with Federal funding under TEA-21.

In fulfillment of the metropolitan transportation planning regulations under TEA21, NYMTC, as the Metropolitan Planning Organization designated by the Governor of the State of New York for New York City, the lower Hudson Valley counties of Putnam, Rockland and Westchester, and the Long Island counties of Nassau and Suffolk, has drafted its Unified Planning Work Program for the period April 1, 2004 through March 31, 2005.