Metropolitan Planning Organization. A planning group designated for each urban area with a population of 50,000 or more. Members include both private citizens and local government officials. A MPO addresses Federal aid planning mandates by producing local area transportation plans or transportation improvement programs on an annual or biannual basis, or by employing other strategies that make existing systems more efficient.
Metropolitan Planning Organization: Regional planning entity responsible for transportation planning and approval of federal transportation funding for the region.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. An association of local agencies established for mutual benefit and to help coordinate planning and development activities within a metropolitan region. Establishment of the MPO is required by law in urban areas of over 50,000 population if federal funds are to be used. The MPO consists of two groups. 1. The Policy board is comprised of officials representing the counties, cities, and state agency. 2. The technical advisory group consists of professional planners and engineers who are usually employees of the same agencies. The MPO is not a level of government. However, the MPO has "effective control" over transportation improvements within the area since a project must be a part of the MPO's adopted plan in order to receive federal funding.
Metropolitan Planning Organization - That organization designated as being responsible, together with the state, for conducting the continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive planning process under 23 U.S.C. 134 and 49 U.S.C. 5303. It is the forum for cooperative decision making.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. As specified in TEA-21 and ISTEA, a MPO is a federally-mandated organization that is required to carry out the transportation planning process for urbanized area with a population of more than 50,000.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The local bodies that set coordination standards and select projects in urban areas to be funded by TEA-21
Metropolitan Planning Organization. An organization made up of local elected and appointed officials responsible for developing, in cooperation with the state, transportation plans and programs in metropolitan areas containing 50,000 or more residents. MPOs are responsible for the development of transportation facilities that will function as an intermodal transportation system and the coordination of transportation planning and funding decisions.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. a local governmental unit that has legal jurisdiction over a geographic area for government service planning such as transportation and land-use planning.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The MPO for the Miami Urbanized Areas guides the transportation planning process in Miami-Dade County and approves all federally required plans for the development of highways, mass transit, and other surface transportation facilities and services.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The organizational entity designated by law with lead responsibility for developing transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas of 50,000 or more in population. MPOs are established by agreement of the Governor and units of general purpose local government, which together represents 75 percent of the affected population or an urbanized area. In the Chicago metropolitan region, the Chicago Area Transportation Study is the designated MPO and covers the six counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will and a portion of Kendall county.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The regional body, comprised of elected officials from the county, which undertakes a continuing, cooperative and comprehensive transportation planning process for the county. Lancaster County's MPO is named the Lancaster County Transportation Coordinating Committee.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. Regional policy body, designated by local officials and the governor of the State, that is responsible in cooperation with the State and other transportation providers for carrying out the metropolitan transportation planning requirements of Federal highway and transit legislation.
Metropolitan Planning Organization: A federally required planning body responsible for the transportation planning and project selection in its region. The Governor designates an MPO in every urbanized area with a population of over 50,000 people. SACOG is the MPO for the greater Sacramento region.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. Federal highway and transit statutes require, as a condition for spending federal highway or transit funds in urbanized areas, the designation of MPOs that have responsibility for planning, programming, and coordination of federal highway and transit investments within their designated area. Two MPOs have authority in the bi-state study area for the EIS for the Goethals Bridge Replacement: the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) and the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA).
Metropolitan Planning Organization – an organization of local elected or appointed officials responsible for coordinating transportation planning in a metropolitan area of at least 50,000 people.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The area-wide agency charged with the conduct of the urban transportation planning process. It is also the single, regionwide recipient of Federal funds for transportation planning purposes. Together with the state, it carries out the planning and programming activities necessary for Federal capital funding assistance. The MPO is designated by agreement among the various units of local government and the governor.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The organization designated by local elected officials as being responsible for carrying out the urban transportation and other planning processes for an area.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The organization designated by law with lead responsibility for developing transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas with populations of 50,000 or more. MPOs are established by agreement of the Governor and units of general purpose local government which together represent 75 percent of the affected population of an affected area.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. According to the U.S. Code, the organization designated by the governor and local elected officials as responsible, together with the state, for transportation planning in an urbanized area. It serves as the forum for cooperative decision making by principal elected officials of general local government. (See OKI)
Metropolitan Planning Organization. A public agency responsible for regional transportation planning. MPOs are generally composed of member jurisdictions (cities and counties) but have their own professional staff.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The areawide agency charged with the conduct of the urban transportation planning process. In Jacksonville, the First Coast MPO conducts the Jacksonville Urban Area Transportation Study (JUATS) resulting in the Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) for the region. An MPO is the designated regionwide recipient of Federal funds for the transportation planning process. Together with the FDOT, the First Coast MPO carries out the planning and programming activities necessary for Federal capital funding assistance. The First Coast MPO is designated by agreement among the various units of local government and the Governor.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. The agency designated by the governor to administer the federally required transportation planning process in a metropolitan area. An MPO must be in place in every urbanized area over 50,000 population. The MPO is responsible for the 20-year long-range plan, the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), and the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP).
Metropolitan Planning Organization. a forum for regional planning, collaboration, and decisionmaking, MPOs are designated agencies for metropolitan areas larger than 50,000 in population that conduct regional transportation planning.
Metropolitan Planning Organization. Local agency that selects highway and transit projects that will be funded by ISTEA.
Metropolitan Planning Organisations.