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 & Economy

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.

Mobility Analytics Subcommittee

With a population of approximately six million residents, and three million jobs, the TPB National Capital Region is considerably influenced by the factors that affect transportation as well as the effects transportation has on the region. This region’s transportation network is heavily intertwined with housing, environmental considerations, economic development, and population trends, which in turn help shape trends in asset management, safety, congestion, and mobility in the region. Therefore, it is critical to leverage robust, diverse, and plentiful data found throughout numerous agencies, organizations, and municipalities that can be used to inform a comprehensive snapshot of the region’s transportation network, which is the aim of TPB’s revamped Mobility Analytics Program (MAP).

The TPB Mobility Analytics Program includes a Mobility Analytics Subcommittee, with participation from local, regional and state level agencies across traffic engineering, planning, modeling, data analytics and visualization, and program management. The Mobility Analytics Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the TPB Technical Committee.

The first meeting of the Mobility Analytics Subcommittee is slated for before the end of calendar year 2025. The Mobility Analytics Subcommittee's mission is to examine and better understand travel patterns in the National Capital Region for the TPB’s members and stakeholders. The Mobility Analytics Subcommittee aims to accomplish this through 1. providing a forum and framework for the coordination and discussion of travel monitoring data related challenges and opportunities throughout transportation-related sectors in the National Capital Region, 2. showcasing the relevance and importance of transportation systems performance improvements as well as vehicle probe data in the development of travel monitoring data collection, analysis and visualization, 3. identifying, collaborating, and advising on the relevance of the Congestion Management Process (CMP) to the Mobility Analytics Program, and 4. advising TPB Staff on the challenges related to travel monitoring data collection, analysis and communication efforts.

Since 2005, travel monitoring activities have fallen within the oversight of the Travel Forecasting Subcommittee (TFS). However, with the formation of the TPB Mobility Analytics Subcommittee in December 2025, oversight of travel monitoring activities has now shifted to this new subcommittee. This change means that the TFS can focus more predominantly on forecasting systems, and the MAS can focus on the mobility trends that form the comprehensive and current snapshot of travel in the greater Washington region.

Mobility Analytics Subcommittee

Committee Members

Staff

Mobility Analytics Subcommittee Inaugural Meeting