Through the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), area officials, planners, and engineers ensure a well-managed and maintained transportation system both now and into the future. The TPB is the federally established Metropolitan Planning Organization for the National Capital Region, staffed by COG, and it conducts the metropolitan transportation planning process for the region and ensures the uninterrupted flow of federal transportation funds to area jurisdictions to implement transportation projects and programs.
The Transportation Planning Board's work to provide mobility and accessibility for all spans a wide range of transportation modes, such as highways, transit, walking, and bicycling, as well as planning related to the region's freight movement and three major airports. The TPB also addresses some of the region’s most significant issues like transportation resilience, the economy, public health, traffic safety, emerging technologies, land use, and funding.
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April 29, 2026
The TPB’s March 18 and April 15 meetings featured approvals of the FY 2027 TPB Unified Planning Work Program, the FY 2027 Commuter Connections Work Program, an...
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April 29, 2026
This TPB News highlight offers an overview of how the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), the Transportation Planning Board (TPB), and the...
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March 30, 2026
As rising gas prices make the expense of driving alone to work even greater, the Commuter Connections program at the Metropolitan Washington Council of...