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Updated May 6, 2008 Search

RPC Transportation Documents

MTPs: Metropolitan Transportation Plans

TIPs: Transportation Improvement Programs

UPWP: Unified Planning Work Program Draft FY-2009

Interim Coordinated Public-Transit Human-Services Transportation Plan

Recent Public Information Meetings

These pages give an overview of what kind of information you will find in
the MTPs, TIPs and the UPWP. To view or download a publication in its entirety,
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MTP: Metropolitan Transportation Plans
MTPs Overview; RPC Documents and: Air Quality, Citizens With Disabilities, Public Involvement	Complete Documents		View or Download
		MTP Fiscal Years 2006–2031 St. Tammany Urbanized Areas November 14, 2006	PDF file 1.6 MB
		Fiscal Year 2032 MTP for the New Orleans Urbanized Area June 12, 2007 0	PDF file 1.1 MB
TIP: Transportation Improvement Programs
TIPs Overview; RPC Documents and: Air Quality, Citizens With Disabilities, Public Involvement 0	Complete Documents		View or Download
		TIP St. Tammany Urbanized Areas, Fiscal Years 2008–2011 April 17, 2008	PDF file 1.4MB
		TIP New Orleans Urbanized Area, Fiscal Years 2008–2011 February 12, 2008 Amendments Approved at the RPC meeting of April 8, 2008	PDF file 1.7MB PDF file 28kb
UPWP: Unified Planning Work Program
UPWP Overview; RPC Documents and: Air Quality, Citizens With Disabilities, Public Involvement 0	Complete Document		View or Download
		Unified Planning Work Program for the New Orleans Urbanized Area and the St. Tammany Parish Urbanized Areas, Fiscal Year 2008 April 10. 2007	PDF file 2 MB
DRAFT UPWP FY-2009 April 8, 2008		DRAFT Unified Planning Work Program FY-2009 for the Urbanized Areas of New Orleans and St. Tammany Parish, April 8, 2008	PDF File 1 MB

MTPs: Metropolitan Transportation Plans

Metropolitan Transportation Plans are composed of priority lists of projects and project segments that are being advanced toward implementation over the next twenty years. Projects are selected for inclusion through a comprehensive, coordinated and continuing transportation planning process. This planning process identifies needs in the planning study area, tests alternative solutions, and proposes allocation of financial resources.

These plans are prepared every five years by the Regional Planning Commission (RPC) in cooperation with its member-parishes, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, and, affected transit operators.

This is done in accordance with the provisions of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), which authorizes federal transit and highway programs through Fiscal Year 2009. This is the the successor legislation of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21).

Highway and Transit elements of MTPs are divided into three tiers that correspond to expected implementation dates:

Tier I

Transportation Improvement Program: A three-year, fiscally constrained implementation program for the immediate fiscal years.

Tier II

These projects are those longer-range improvements that are in the planning and development stage during the following two fiscal years, and are expected to advance toward implementation based on availability of funding.

Tier III

These are long-range projects that typically are complex to implement (fiscally, environmentally, etc.), and projects that are deemed necessary but are as yet without an identified funding source.

Next: TIPs and UPWP In Brief

Overviews on: Air Quality, Citizens with Disabilities, and Public Involvement as related to RPC Documents.

Off-site Parish-Transit Links
Jefferson Parish Transit www.jeffersontransit.org
Regional Transit Authority (New Orleans) www.regionaltransit.org