Roads and highways are the backbone of the region’s transportation system. They carry the vast majority of travelers, whether they are walking, biking, riding public transit, or transporting commercial freight. The RPC strives to maintain a state of good repair on the street network while also ensuring safety and ease of use for all road users.
State of good repair is the foundation of system performance—ensuring that transportation assets across the region remains well-maintained and ready to meet future demands.
Ensures that the region’s transportation network can withstand, adapt to, and recover from flooding, storms, and other climate-related disruptions.
Identifies risks across the transportation system and develops adaptive strategies to keep key corridors, bridges, and transit services functioning under both acute hazards and long-term environmental change.
Identifies, monitors, and addresses traffic congestion across the New Orleans metropolitan region. The CMP uses data, performance measures, and community input to pinpoint problem corridors, evaluate the causes of delay, and test strategies that improve mobility for all users.
Traffic demand modeling is used to understand how people and goods move across the region and to forecast how those patterns will change as the region grows. Models help identify congestion hot spots, evaluate future congestion, test different regional/parish/local transportation scenarios through planning studies, and assess the impacts of new projects before they are built.
By providing a data-driven picture of regional mobility, travel demand modeling supports smarter investment decisions and ensures the transportation system can meet future needs.
Complete Streets is an approach to planning, designing, constructing, and maintaining streets that enables safe access for all people, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
