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MPO Responsibilities

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These resources provide more-in depth descriptions of an MPO's role and responsibilities with planning and coordination.

The diversity of Indiana's urbanized areas requires Indiana's MPOs to serve a wide variety of functions. As a group, most fill a core of common functions focusing on land use and transportation planning and programming. These functions include:

Long Range Land Use Forcasting

  • Population, employment, and other socio-economic forecasts
  • Preparation of Long Range Plans for land use and public facilities

Long Range Transportation Planning

  • Highway planning
  • Mass transit planning
  • Bicycle and pedestrian planning

Technical (Operational) Services

  • Analysis of short term transportation problems (intersections, parking, access, etc.)
  • Planning services for transportation projects
  • Maintenance of transportation and land use databases
  • Roadway capacity analysis, environmental impact analysis, signal justifications, traffic studies, accident data collection, street inventories, railroad inventories
  • Mapping and GIS services
  • U. S. Census data affiliates
  • Air quality planning

Programming of Transportation Improvements

  • Assistance to local jurisdictions in development, design, funding of projects
  • Coordination of project implementation
  • Project prioritization
  • Present and future needs analysis

Coordination

  • Provide a forum for policy and technical discussions in a region
  • Assist communication between various levels of government
  • Provide an educational process for elected officials and the public

Click on the links below to view more in-depth descriptions of an MPO's role and responsibilities with planning for its local public agencies and coordination with the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT).


Planning Emphasis AreasMPO Committee AssignmentsPlanning Roles, Responsibilities, & Cooperative Operation ManualIndiana MPO & INDOT Cooperative Operations Manual - Historic

Planning Links

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