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Metropolitan planning organizations in Texas : overview and profiles : final report.

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    Texas A&M Transportation Institute
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    PRC 17-87 F
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    Tech Report
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  • TRIS Online Accession Number:
    1645418
  • Corporate Publisher:
    Texas A&M Transportation Institute
  • Abstract:
    A metropolitan planning organization (MPO) has authority and responsibility for regional transportation planning in urbanized areas where the population is at least 50,000 and surrounding areas meet size/density criteria determined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Federal legislation passed in the early 1970s designated this authority and responsibility (1). The specific MPO boundaries are determined by agreement between the MPO and the governor and are required to include the urbanized area and surrounding area expected to become urbanized within the next 20 years. Establishment of new MPOs and changes to metropolitan area boundaries are closely tied to the Federal Decennial Census. For example, in the early 1980s, over 70 MPOs were created based on changes occurring to urbanized regions across the United States (2). MPOs have a local government-based organizational structure. In the 1970s, “75 percent of MPOs were staffed by Metropolitan regional councils…governed by local elected officials…with staff that dealt with many program areas other than transportation” (2). In the 1990s, this type of MPO structure represented only about 44 percent of the MPOs, with the remainder staffed by individual cities, counties, city-county planning commissions, or independent entities focusing on federal transportation planning and project funding. Presently, almost half of the 420 MPOs nationwide are staffed by the metropolitan regional councils (3).
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