The diversity of Indiana's urbanized areas require that Indiana's MPOs serve a wide variety of functions.  As a group most fill a core of common functions focusing on land use and transportation planning and programming.  These functions include:

Long Range Land Use Forecasting

• Population, employment, and other socio-economic forecasts
• Preparation of Long Range Plans for land use and public facilities

Long Range Transportation Planning

• Highway planning
• Mass transit planning
• Bicycle and pedestrian planning

Technical (Operational) Services

• Analysis of short term transportation problems (intersections, parking, access, etc.)
• Planning services for transportation projects
• Maintenance of transportation and land use databases
• Roadway capacity analysis, environmental impact analysis, signal justifications, traffic studies, accident data collection, street inventories, railroad inventories
• Mapping and GIS services
• U. S. Census data affliliates
• Air quality planning

Programming of Transportation Improvements

• Assistance to local jurisdictions in development, design, funding of projects
• Coordination of project implementation
• Project prioritization
• Present and future needs analysis

Coordination

• Provide a forum for policy and technical discussions in a region
• Assist communication between various levels of government
• Provide an educational process for elected officials and the public

Other special functions are listed by MPO.

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