Transportation Policy and Implementation

MTPs/TIPs/UPWP page

The RPC has traditionally held a central position of responsibility for coordination of regional transportation initiatives. However, the 1990s saw significant expansion of that traditional role to include planning in the relationship of transportation to the areas of land use, economic and community development, and environmental justice.

Recent Public Information Meetings and Presentations

Interstate 12/Northshore Boulevard/Airport Road
in St. Tammany Parish
Public Information Meeting #2, February 28, 2008

A public information meeting was held February 28, 2008, concerning the Interstate 12/Northshore Boulevard/Airport Road, Stage 0 Feasibility Study and Environmental Inventory project for St. Tammany Parish.

Meeting Agenda (a PDF file)

Purpose: The purpose of the project is to develop interchange and roadway improvements to alleviate traffic congestion at the I-12 exit-ramps and Northshore Boulevard and Airport Road.

Presentation of Project Shown at Public Meeting

For more information concerning this project, please view the presentation from the public meeting. The presentation shows the Project Area, and describes the Project Purpose and Project Need. There is also a Summary Map of Proposed Roadway Improvements in the Slidell Area, information about Public Information Meeting #1, an Evaluation Summary, Recommendations, and three drawings which depict Initial Recommendations (superimposed on aerial photographs).

 View Presentation (a PDF file, 2.9 MB)

Project Sponsors: The Regional Planning Commission, and, the St. Tammany Parish Government. Planning and Engineering Tasks: BKI Burk-Kleinpeter, Inc., and, Tamplan, LLC.

Clearview Parkway Corridor/LA 3152 (part)
Stage 0 Feasibility Study and Environmental Inventory

Public Information Meeting, February 21, 2008

A public information meeting was held February 21, 2008, concerning the Clearview Parkway Corridor/LA 3152 (part) Stage 0 Feasibility Study and Environmental Inventory in Jefferson Parish.

Purpose: The study will examine the initial feasibility of capacity improvements to Clearview Parkway between S. I-10 Service Road and E. Corporate Avenue, to address existing problems as well as changes in traffic resulting from the widening of the Huey P. Long Bridge.

Presentation of Project Shown at Public Meeting

For more information concerning this project, please view the presentation from the public meeting. The presentation shows Project Sponsors and Project Team, Project Overview, Study Area Definition, Preliminary Purpose, Existing Traffic, Future Traffic, Huey P. Long Bridge, Initial Project Concepts, Project Evaluation, Remaining Project Concepts, Secondary Evaluations and Results, and, Initial Recommendations.

View Presentation (a PDF file, 3.7 MB)

Handout for Public Information Meeting (a PDF file, 1 MB)

Agenda, Project Description, Project Concepts, Study Area Definition, etc.

Project-Concepts Inserts to Handout:  

Project Sponsors: The Regional Planning Commission, Jefferson Parish, and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. Project Team: Burk-Kleinpeter, Inc.; Richard C. Lambert Consultants, LLC; AIMS Group, Inc.; PSI/Citywide Testing and Inspection, Inc.; Urban Systems, Inc.

Project Contacts: Ed E. Elam, AICP, Project Manager, Burk-Kleinpeter, Inc., 504.486.5901, Extension 281, eelam@bkiusa.com; Jeff Roesel, AICP, Regional Planning Commission, Principal Planner, jroesel@norpc.org.

Transportation Documents             MTPs/TIPs/UPWP page

MTPs and TIPs

The RPC as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the New Orleans region develops and administers through its Metropolitan Transportation Plans (MTPs cover a 20-year period) and Transportation Improvement Program (TIPs cover the immediate four-year period)—an eighty million dollars per year transportation program of highway, transit, and intermodal facility improvements including:

• Transportation Planning for: highways, public transit, rail, intermodal,
  port and airports
• Intelligent Transportation Systems Development
• Congestion and Incident Management Systems Planning
• Transportation and Community and Systems Preservation Program
• Land Use Planning

View/download entire documents (PDF files):

MTPs: New Orleans Urbanized Area, Fiscal Year 2027 (5.58MB); St. Tammany Urbanized Areas, Fiscal Years 2006-2031 (1.5 MB)

TIPs: New Orleans Urbanized Area, Fiscal Years 2008-2011 (PDF file 1.7MB); Amendments Approved at the RPC Meeting of April 8, 2008 (PDF file 28kb); St. Tammany Parish Urbanized Areas, Fiscal Years 2008-2011 (PDF file 1.4MB).

Overviews of: MTPs and TIPs

Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP)

The RPC's effort to establish and carry out its transportation policy development and project implementation is documented in its Unified Planning Work Program for Transportation Planning.

The Unified Planning Work Program for Transportation Planning for Fiscal Year 2008 describes all federally funded transportation studies being conducted within the greater New Orleans Transportation Study Area during the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008 .

This study area consists of three urbanized areas (UZAs) - New Orleans , Slidell and Covington/Mandeville.

The Unified Planning Work Program documents the federally funded planning activities being undertaken by the Regional Planning Commission, local transit providers, the state Department of Transportation, and local governmental units to maintain and improve the overall efficiency of the region’s highway, transit, aviation, maritime and rail systems.

The Program also describes endeavors being undertaken by the RPC in other spheres of activity such as economic development, brownfields reclamation, and aviation .

View or download entire document: Unified Planning Work Program, New Orleans Urbanized Area and St. Tammany Parish Urbanized Areas, FY-2008  (PDF file, 2 MB) )

Overview of UPWP in general: UPWP  

     East-West Corridor Environmental Impact Study