RPC Transportation Documents

Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP)

The Regional Planning Commission is currently seeking citizen input for the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). The MTP is a long-term (20 + years) strategy and capital improvement plan for regional transportation investments. The MTP, which is updated every four years, creates the framework for the region’s Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP), the near-term capital improvement program, which allows for the implementation of transit, highway, and bikeway projects. 

Read the current MTPs (below) for the Northshore and the Southshore: MTPs

Send us your comments.

Coordinated Public Transit Human Services Transportation Plan for the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, July 2009

For information on this plan and a PDF file of the document, please go to the CPTHSTP Web site page.

The Title VI Plan is the federally mandated plan that describes how the RPC intends to live up to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The plan outlines RPC responsibilities, policies, assurances, and complaint procedures as it relates to implementing provisions of the Act. The Plan is effective January 20, 2009. 

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Funding for Louisiana Regional Transit Projects,
RPC Presentation, and, Information on the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (i.e., the Federal Economic Stimulus Bill), provides $430 million in highway funding and $66 million in transit funding for Louisiana.

Regional projects requesting funding through the LaDOTD have been included in the New Orleans Regional Transportation Improvement Program 2009-2012.

To facilitate public access to this information, a listing of the qualifying projects and their descriptions, as well as an overview of the ARRA program, is provided on the web site of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development: http://www.dotd.la.gov/

RPC Presentation:

RPC Project Submittal: American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (PDF, 1.4MB)

MTP
Fiscal Years 2006–2031
St. Tammany
Urbanized Areas
November 14, 2006

Send us your comments.

Fiscal Year 2032
MTP for the
New Orleans Urbanized Area
June 12, 2007

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TIP
New Orleans
Urbanized Area,
Fiscal Years 2011–2014
June 8, 2010

TIP New Orleans Amendments

TIP
St. Tammany
Urbanized Areas,
Fiscal Years 2011–2014
June 8, 2010

TIP St. Tammany Amendments

Unified Planning Work Program FY-2011 for New Orleans and St. Tammany Parish Urbanized Areas
April 13, 2010

PDF File
6 MB

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:

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

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