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The Evolving Texas Megaregion: Developing a Sustainable Megaregion Mobility Planning Blueprint
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2021-10-01
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Edition:September 2020 – September 2021
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Abstract:With the megaregional trend growing in the U.S., it is becoming increasingly important to recognize and reorient the scale of the mobility planning towards the megaregions for sustainable and equitable growth of regions. In 2013, European Union developed a new transportation planning process called Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP). The raison d’être for this was to put the needs of people and their quality of life, including social equity, health, and environmental equity, and economic viability at the planning document’s core. SUMP has scalability for the megaregion dimension. As the major actor responsible for regional planning in the U.S., MPOs offer the expertise, flexibility, and a collaborative network to formulate a cross-jurisdictional planning framework like SUMP. Taking Texas Triangle megaregion as a case study, this report looks into the legal and procedural requirements of the planning processes of the MPOs in the anchor areas of Houston, Dallas Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio to conceptualize the efficacy of the potential application of the SUMP model and the opportunities to scale up for megaregional planning applications.
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