About Us

COG is the one place in metropolitan Washington that regularly brings leaders together to develop solutions to the region's major challenges. COG prepares plans enabling the region to receive federal funding, provides members with research and data to inform decision-making, and offers a wide range of programs, including commuter services, cooperative purchasing, technical assistance and grants, and public outreach campaigns.

Transportation

Through the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), area officials, planners, and engineers ensure a well-managed and maintained transportation system. The TPB, which is staffed by COG, conducts the federally mandated transportation planning process for the region and ensures the uninterrupted flow of federal transportation funds that area jurisdictions receive.

Environment

COG's work engages leaders in various environmental fields from water quality experts to climate scientists. Together, they are advancing regional efforts to restore local waterways, improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change, promote recycling, and enhance and preserve green space and agriculture.

Community

Area officials and experts, including planning and housing directors and child welfare and health officials, work together with their counterparts at COG to help shape stronger communities throughout the region.

Homeland Security & Public Safety

COG brings police chiefs, fire chiefs, emergency managers, and other leaders together as part of its work to strengthen regional public safety coordination, homeland security planning, and emergency communication.

Regional Transportation Resilience Working Group

The Regional Transportation Resiliency Working Group is a group of regional stakeholders convened for the purpose of providing input and feedback on key milestones during the development of the TPB’s Transportation Resilience Improvement Plan (TRIP). The working group will meet quarterly through June 2024 and will participate in the following activities:

completion of a vulnerability assessment,
request for project proposals from TPB-member organizations to establish a resilience project list for inclusion in the TRIP,
a fall 2023 Resiliency Forum with a broader group of stakeholders to build knowledge of climate risks among the jurisdictions and collaborate with them to develop resilience solutions, and
drafting and finalizing the Transportation Resilience Improvement Plan.

Regional Transportation Resilience Working Group

Committee Members

Staff