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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 affiliates
- 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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